As Canadian families continue to get ready to head back to school, they could face a mixed bag of prices and need to be flexible when trying to plan out lunches for their children, according to a new report.

Released by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, the report shows that while prices for food in August were better than a month prior, they will still be uneven.

When it comes to what the lab considers a “focused school-lunch basket,” comprised of 12 popular school-lunch staples, prices declined about 2.8 per cent.

Among those, price drops among bagels, bottled water, cheddar cheese, tuna and peanut butter helped offset increases…

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