Vary your lunches with the Octave planner

Lunch planning is certainly one of those invisible tasks that drains our mental energy daily. Between finding ideas, ensuring what we offer is nutritious enough, checking that we have everything we need in the fridge, remembering school allergies, and trying to please everyone, it's often a real headache! So here's how our Octave app can become your indispensable ally and finally lighten your mental load when it comes to those famous lunches!

A repertoire of ideas at your fingertips

Thanks to its integrated cookbook, Octave allows you to create your own bank of lunch ideas, which you can access easily and at any time. Thus, rather than starting from scratch each week, you can gradually build a personalized repertoire that truly matches your family's tastes and your reality. This week, you made chicken wraps that everyone loved? Add them to your idea bank! Everyone loves your perfect banana muffin recipe for a snack or lunch dessert? Add it too! The app also gives you access to all Les Belles Combines recipes, many of which are perfect lunch options!

Over the weeks, you'll end up with a collection of several lunch ideas that truly work for your family. And when it's time to plan, instead of staring into space hoping for inspiration, you'll just have to pick from your tried-and-tested repertoire!

Intelligent rotation

To vary lunches without getting exhausted, nothing beats using a rotation system. With Octave, you can easily create three weekly menus that you simply repeat over the months. By alternating these pre-planned menus, you avoid monotony without constantly having to reinvent the wheel.

This approach is particularly effective because it also allows for a reality often overlooked: our children (and ourselves, for that matter!) generally appreciate a certain routine. So you don't need 365 different lunch ideas; about twenty options used in rotation are generally more than enough to maintain interest without creating unnecessary stress.

An effortless grocery list

From the created menu, Octave generates a grocery list of all the ingredients you will need to prepare the chosen lunches. Not only do you not have to make it yourself, but you also know exactly what to buy, which allows you to buy only what you need and avoid waste. 

Involving children

With Octave, you can easily assign tasks to all family members; you can involve children in preparing their lunch, for example, by asking younger children to assemble the different elements of their lunchbox, or older children to make their sandwich. By integrating these tasks directly into their established routine on the app, your children will have no reason to forget them, and will have a great opportunity to develop their autonomy!

With the right tools and a structured approach, the task of preparing lunches can become much simpler, and even enjoyable! Who knows, you might even rediscover the pleasure of preparing varied and appetizing lunches for your whole family!