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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- Meg: Vi, I searched online and at the Aladdin web site. It appears that they no longer make the "Lunch & Go" lunchbox. However, I have seen the lunchb
- Vi: I can't find this on their website, and walmart. Amazon says its no longer available. Where else can I find this? Is it discontinued?
- Meg: Julie, Thanks for visiting again, it is always great to see repeat readers :) The Planetbox lunch box has continued to be my go-to lunchbox for my 5
- Create Some Art from the Heart & Win a POM Wonderful Contest!
Enter POM Wonderful’s Heart Art Contest through February 28th and get a chance to win a Flip Video, POM juice, and more! In celebrating American Heart Month POM is promoting healthy heart awareness through their art contest. Create a work of art using your favorite medium and promote healthy heart awareness and POM Wonderful [...]
- Stop and Smell the Cookies!
Four days until Christmas and I’m sure stress levels are high out there! I hope that in the chaos that surrounds Christmas you are able to slow down during your day and enjoy the moment. When I feel overwhelmed I take a few deep breaths and realize how lucky I am to have my [...]
- My Favorite Gifts for Kids
I have 2 kids and 14 nieces and nephews to buy gifts for this holiday season. I like doing my shopping online and early, so that items will get delivered to my doorstep in time for Christmas. This year, I have found a collection of gifts I think are pretty neat… feel free to steal [...]
- Green Your Halloween
Halloween is quickly approaching! Now is the time to take the initiative and think Green with Halloween, along with the other big holidays approaching over the next couple of months. There are great tips for greening your holidays all over the web, one great list can be found at Kids Konserve. Many of you [...]
- xobobox gets great mention in Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food Mag!
Thanks to Gudrun of Kitchen Gadget Girl I realized that xobobox is mentioned in the September issue of Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine! I feel honored to have the recognition on page 28 of their magazine where it reads:
“Looking for new ways to pack lunch for school (or the office?) We’re inspired by the fresh, [...] - 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 [...] - Keeping it healthy on Halloween
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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