Tip of the Day - Waste Free Lunches
Posted on August 7, 2008 by
Packing school lunches can be a mess of foil, baggies, and plastic wrap. When lunch is over, there’s a small mountain of garbage left behind.
Waste Free Lunches gives the following tips for packing your child’s lunch (or your own):
- Start with a reusable lunchbox, backpack, or briefcase
- Pack your food in reusable containers
- Include a drink in a refillable bottle
- Add reusable utensils
- Use a cloth napkin
Laptop Lunches has a great waste free lunch system based on the Japanese Bento Box. It’s lead free and top rack dishwasher safe.
If your kid is too cool for a lunch box, try a simple organic cotton lunch bag and a Wrap-N-Mat sandwich wrapper. Produce bags from Organic Needle would work great for snacks like carrot sticks and celery.
lunch in a box is a good site also. She does bento lunches for her preschooler. you can find some good tips for using leftovers in lunches.
I’m gong to check out the waste free lunch site. Thank you for the link.
It pains me to think of how many brown bags I threw away as a kid because I was too cool for a reusable lunchbox/bag when I hit middle school
Thanks for the mention. I am actually going to make my son character cloth snack bags, like Star Wars or whatever I can find, for school so he will feel really cool with his reusables…and be less likely to lose them. (Plus, kindergarten won’t seem so scary when he has Yoda in his lunch bag.) I find cereal box liners the perfect sandwich wrappers for those times that a reusable container is just not going to find its way back to me.