Sometimes it takes a village just to get the kids out the door in the morning, much less wrangle the time it takes to prepare a perfectly balanced meal for their lunches. “It’s a challenge to come up with creative lunches without spending an arm and a leg,” said Ashley Reece, mom of 5-year-old Peyton and a lecturer at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus. Reece mostly buys food for kindergartner Peyton’s lunches from supermarkets such as Aldi, Kroger and Wal-Mart.