School's back! How to pack recess and lunch in minutes

School is back and parents around the country are getting ready to embrace the chaos that comes with it.

Uniforms will be ironed, school bags packed and bedtimes enforced.

Then, there's school recesses and lunches, which can be both time-consuming to prepare and annoying to throw away later when your kids don't eat them.

I have the perfect 'mum hack' that will help you streamline the school-lunch-packing-process.

The first step is to talk to your kids every two weeks or so and ask them what their preferences are when it comes to recesses and lunches.

Children's tastes can change quickly and it's not uncommon for them to forget to tell you when that has happened.

Watch the video above to find out more about this incredible mum hack.