Packing Smart, Stylish, Safe Lunches: Comment to WIN!
Comments are NOW CLOSED. Congratulations to Natalie who had the winning comment! (updated 12/15/08).
I’m a fan of the waste free lunch. The last thing I want to do is send my kids or husband off with a trash filled lunch. Even more important is to keep their food safe. My family also appreciates a lunch that still resembles the food it is when they open it several hours after I’ve packed it.
Enter my new favorite way to pack lunches, LunchSense. These innovative lunch systems meet every requirement I have! They enable a waste free lunch, are made out of safe materials which means my family won’t be ingesting leached in chemicals and the boxes are even machine washable!
What I really love are the inner containers. The lunch boxes come with a set of fully lidded containers made of polypropylene (#5) and the drink containers are polypropylene or polyethylene (#2). In the words of Nancy Owen Myers- founder of LunchSense, “These (plastics) are considered by GreenPeace and others as “food-safe”, but I prefer to use the term “time-tested”.”
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We were sent the medium box to try out and once I got used to opening and closing the box (a matter of minutes), I really enjoyed it! Did I mention that the box itself folds out into a lunch mat (which also makes for easier cleaning, simply fold it out and wipe down or toss into the washing machine). My husband was impressed and he is a hard one to please. He thought the boxes were appropriate for all ages (kids and adults alike) and really appreciated that all the containers have lids. Lack of lidded containers is his biggest pet peeve with our children’s current lunch systems.
Of course, the box and containers are all free of BPA, Lead and PVC. We don’t want those nasties in our food storage or anywhere near our children!
The website touts these boxes as EASY, HEALTHY, and COOL. What more could we ask for in a food storage and transport system? You may also be glad to hear that your lunch system may arrive in any number of (other companies) cardboard boxes. LunchSense believes in reusing cardboard boxes versus recycling them. Why not get the maximum life possible out of a shipping box?
LunchSense has offered to make one of you ultra cool with their hip, new, colorful lunch system. Simply visit LunchSense, take a look at the site and products, then come back here to leave a comment with what you liked, your name, and your email address.
Comments are open until Monday, December 15th at 7:00 AM PST. The winner will be selected from all properly submitted comments using a random number generator and will be notified via email and posted on Eco Child’s Play by 5pm on Dec.15th. The winner gets to choose box size and color! Open to residents of the United States.
If you want to place an order with LunchSense, please do so. If you win the drawing, LunchSense will issue you a refund to make your box FREE or you can choose to receive a second box.
Eat well. Be well.
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A friend pointed me here when I was discussing with her idea’s for my husband’s lunch. It looks like it might just fit the bill!
Those are awesome! I can’t tell you how much I hated smashed sandwiches in middle and high school. I’d probably get a box AND some extra containers to replace some of my Tupperware, because I don’t completely trust it, even though it doesn’t have the major offenders’ plastic numbers.
What a great product. I love the variety of sizes and how it can also be used as a mat.
Mady
This is a fantastic product, great for the environment, and so useful and stylish that everyone will want to use it. I especially love that they are shipping them out in used boxes. Of course, that’s something anyone can do thanks to UsedCardboardBoxes.com. With any luck, more companies will start thinking this way, as we all need to do our part to be more eco-friendly, whether it’s recycling cans, using public transit instead of our cars, or something as simple as buying used boxes instead of new for shipping.
These look fantastic. I like the small size (and that they offer different sizes), because it would be perfect for my little ones. Also, the colors are so bright and happy.
I love all of them! But I think the large box (in purple) would be most useful for my family.
I like the large box for outings and my lunch. I’m at school from 6:30 - 3:30, 4:00 if we have faculty meeting, 4:30 if robotics or garden club meets. I’m trying to take my own snacks to eat healthier rather than buying stuff out of the vending machines.
YES… the inner containers are microwave safe (open the lid first!) and top rack dishwasher safe.
This is just what I have been looking for. I always bring my lunch in to work, but have a “mish mosh” of containers and bags. IT is nice to have one convenient system that is safe and well organized.
That is so awsome! My mom has a list of all the plastics and which ones are the most “safe”. I am always calling her to ask about water bottles and containers that I buy to have her check the list. She herself has switched to packing everything in metal and glass containers…I’m not ready to go that far yet.