Make lunch
At midday the question is not what tastes best but what can actually be made without it growing too big. The visual support below lays out a few simple lunch routes so the choice can be made by eye instead of debate.
♀Making lunch
A person slicing sausage to make a sandwich, with lettuce and tomato on the cutting board.
About this visual support
Lunch is a specific kind of decision pressure. Breakfast runs on autopilot and dinner has its own slot in the evening, but lunch sits in the middle of the day and demands an active choice exactly when energy is often lowest. The questions stack up: what is in the fridge, what can I be bothered to cook, what will the child actually eat, and how long before we can sit down.
With visual support, you can pre-decide two or three lunch routes and just choose between them in the moment. The sandwich route. The leftovers route. The pasta route. Each one is a few cards in a row, from ingredient to plate, with a rough time estimate so it is clear up front how soon food will land on the table.
One concrete tip: save two lunch sequences that can genuinely be done in under ten minutes, for the days when the decision itself is the hard part. In the Routined app these two can sit as favourites so the child can point to the one that matches the day.