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Lately I have been obsessing, Obsessing over our family lunch box situation.  If you were to come over, and open my cabinets while innocently looking for a glass, there is 50% chance a lunch box will jump out and bop you on the head.  Aaron used to collect them, so we have an absorbent amount of the tin variety stashed about our home. It’s ridiculous really that I am having a down right lunch box crisis at the moment, but I am.  Here’s why:

Do we go vintage, but non-space efficient?

The tin lunch kits only fit a plastic thermose (which kill your kids slowly you know…you DO know this right?  Come, to the neurotic dark side with me.  Please?!  It’s lonely here.) They are too small to fit reusable sandwich and side containers.  I’m not down with plastic sandwich bags either.  They Cost a lot, and cause massive amounts of non-biodegradable waste.

So, then there is the bento by laptop lunch.  It’s attractive to the eye, reusable, and was brought to fame by vegan lunchbox, and even has it’s own groupies, but…

I’m just not, not, N-O-T, going to spend 100.00 on kits that have a 99% chance of getting lost sometime during the school year and don’t even come with drink bottles.

There are these Vinyl bags, but they get gross, smelly, are hard to clean. Also, they kill my kids slowly with lead. Some boast “lead free” and “safe,”  but how can I ever trust you again lunch bag manufacturers?  Fool me once…

So, we settled on these:

Cons:

They are made of plastic

There is no place for a drink and they won’t fit in a traditional lunch bag (I’m gonna have to sew some up I think.)

Pros:

I don’t have to ever use baggies again.  Everything has a compartment.  No more plastic landfill waste.

I can lay them all out and quickly make an assembly line of healthy lunches without having to fiddle with multiple containers, or bags.

They were 3.00 each at Target

They have a neat utensil holder on top

I get to experiment with the yummy and aesthetically pleasing world of bento lunches:

Sending lunches for my family is important to me because school lunches are:

a)  Overly processed, freeze dried and reheated, genetically modified, junk

b.)  Served on Styrofoam, non-biodegradable trays

c.)  Insulting to children and food

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