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School Year's Resolutions: Eco-Friendly Lunch Boxes
Brown paper bags are so passe. Make sure your child isn't outcasted at the earth-friendly lunch table by buying them an eco-friendly lunch box that helps reduce waste. Unlike the green lunch carriers of years past, today's bags are cute, kid-friendly, and serve many purposes.
Ecotot: Kids Konserve
Think about all the disposable goods that go into a packed school lunch — plastic baggies, aluminum foil, wrappers and often times, a paper bag. Children each generate an average of 67 pounds of lunchtime trash every year. Chance Claxton and Lynn Julian, founders of Kids Konserve, were appalled when they read that statistic.
A Few of Lil's Favorite Things: September
Send your kids back to school with a hardy lunch in hand. While your children may be focused on hitting the books, there's no time like the present to make sure they are mindful of the world around them. Help them choose an Eco-friendly lunch box or lunch sack to tote and store their mid-day meal.
Lil Tip: Cool Lunches
When you send your tot off to school with a sack lunch, your goal is to give your babe the best eats possible.
While those cute lunch totes may appear to do the job, use an old baby toy for extra insurance.
Toss old teething rings (cleaned off of course!) into the freezer.
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10 Healthy Ways to Jazz Up the Lunch Box
Banish cafeteria meals with some creative ideas that will have school kids looking forward to mom's lunchtime surprises. Now that your lil one has a lunch box that helps reduce waste throughout the year, fill it with food that he will want to gobble down, rather than toss. With a little forethought and a few tools, those lunch sacks will be filled with healthy meals that are the envy of everyone at the table.
Lil Treasures: Lunch Box Surprises
Don't let school lunches become as routine as a line-up of classes, surprise your kids by putting a few fun edible treats in their lunch bags. And, always make sure they are age appropriate.
- Shaped Sandwiches — Turn your child's favorite sandwich, be it peanut butter and jelly or ham and cheese into an extraordinary one using stainless steel cookie cutters to make them into hearts, stars and animals.
- Cereal Chain — String naturally colored fruit loops or Cheerios on a piece of unflavored dental floss to create a necklace or bracelet.
- Mini Quiche — There's nothing like a lil brunch for lunch, make the quiche bite-sized using mini muffin pans or the pre-made appetizer pastry cups available at most grocers.
- Scoops of Fruit — Rather than having the kids fuss with peels, pits and rinds, use a melon baller to make their favorite fruit medley.
Lil Find: Beetle Spoon and Spork
Youngsters love to find unexpected treats hidden in their lunch boxes. While cupcakes and cookies are probably the most sought after treasures, your wee one may be pleasantly surprised to find one of these nifty Beetle Sporks ($10) in their package of tasty and nutritional eats.
Tots can easily take the funky bug and unfold the wings to create a spoon or fork for their meal.
School Year's Resolutions: Lunch Box Makeovers
You've moved from brown bagging munchies to an eco-friendly lunch bag, so now it's time to upgrade its contents! Get out of the everyday sandwich rut and start getting creative with what you pack to sustain your kids.
- Shape up.
Interview with Annabel Karmel: Liven Up the Lunch Box
Yesterday, we discussed fussy eaters with the London- based cookbook author, Annabel Karmel, and today we're talking books.
If you have a school-aged child, you know that the morning routine of getting everyone up and dressed, fed and packed for school leaves little time for creativity.
Lunch Boxes and Snacks, which hit book stores in January, takes parents beyond the peanut butter and jelly or tuna sandwiches with tips and healthy recipes to liven up your child’s lunchbox.
Lil Links: Looks Like Ryder Might Become a Big Brother
- Does Ryder Robinson have a sibling on the way? — Celebrity Baby Scoop
- Jessica and Honor white out before Labor Day strikes — Celebrity Baby Blog
- The food police strike again! — CafeMom
- Bad dad gets 42 years — ParentDish
- Bento boxes make lunch fun — Cool Mom Picks
- Broke guy day care caught on film — The Poop
- 20 ways to end homework hassle — Parenting
- Crafty labor day cleaning basket — Alpha Mom
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