If you get intimidated by others’ impressive lunch boxes, please don’t! Just pick up a couple of good gadgets like this one and enjoy making your kids lunch! This dinosaur cutter turns an ordinary lunchbox sandwich into 2 dinosaurs for your child to munch during lunch. Your kids lunch box will stand up to the rest! Inexpensive and simple, dishwasher [...]
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The Cool Foods Campaign researches the connections between the foods we eat and their contribution to global warming. The campaign encourage people to reduce their impact on global warming through food and lunch product choices through 5 key areas. To reduce your food “footprint” they suggest that we:
1. Buy organic
2. Reduce meat and dairy [...]
School Lunchbox Cards
I recently came upon some cute cards to put in your childs lunch box and bring a smile to their face during their school lunch. Many of the cards make them use their brains at lunch, too!! The card categories include Mystical Little People, Riddles, Real Looney Laws, Wacky World, and Eewww, that’s [...]
10 tips to stop kids’ Halloween sugar overload
(summary from The Associated Press). The AP tips are printed in Bold below, while my take on the tip & what I plan on doing is printed in regular text…
These ideas help kids on Halloween feel neither deprived, nor sick to their stomachs:
-Talk with your kids, before Halloween, on [...]
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a nationwide federally funded meal program operating in public and nonprofit private school cafeterias. Their focus is to provide nutritionally balanced, low-cost lunches (or free lunches for underpriveledged kids) to all children each school day. Though the intentions of the NSLP are great, there is much debate on how well balanced [...]
LeanCuisine is promoting insulated designer lunch totes in support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer research. The lunch totes are only $9.95 per bag (including shipping and handling!) and $5 from each sale goes to cancer research. You go LeanCuisine!! These are cute totes and ones you can feel good about as you support [...]
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- Wall-E Bento Lunchbox Art
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- Lunchbox Banana Saver
- Lunchbox Economics
- Egg Molds for Cute Bento Lunchboxes
- Packing a Green Lunchbox
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- Is that a Froose in your Lunchbox?
- Laptop Lunches Lunchbox Giveaway
- Lunchbox Dinosaur Sandwiches
- Meg: Quick followup -- I now own six of the egg molds and have tried them all out, they are great! However, the Heart and the Star shapes did not turn out
- Meg: Kim, Thanks for visiting, and yes--aren't they awesome? You can definintely use them for onigiri (molded rice balls). Not so sure about the meatbal
- kim: Those are incredibly cute! Do you think you'd be able to use them for other things like mini-onigiri or meatballs? Or would the shape no longer stand
- Grassroots Movement Reducing Lunchbox Waste
The Laptop Lunches lunchbox has inspired a grassroots movement in Redding, California known as the Healthy Lunch and Lifestyle Project (HELP). The new nonprofit environmental program was founded and is run by Executive Director Bridgette Brick-Wells.
The program aims to create healthy lunches for kids while drastically reducing lunchroom waste. In select schools, they provide [...] - New "Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids" Lunch Ideas Book
A new book has come out by London author Amanda Grant that looks great: “Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids” (Ryland Peters & Small, 2008, $19.95). On Amazon.com, you can get the hardcover book for $15.
Based on an interview Grant did with the The Star-Ledger, the book seems to have a lot of great tips. Some [...] - Ten tips for controlling Halloween sugar overload
10 tips to stop kids’ Halloween sugar overload
(summary from The Associated Press). The AP tips are printed in Bold below, while my take on the tip & what I plan on doing is printed in regular text…
These ideas help kids on Halloween feel neither deprived, nor sick to their stomachs:
-Talk with your kids, before Halloween, on [...]
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