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Lately I have been obsessing, Obsessing over our family lunch box situation.  We have approximately 5 million different lunch boxes. If you were to come over and open my cabinets while innocently looking for a glass, or plate there is 50% chance a lunch box will jump out and smash you right in your face.  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.

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, gonna drop 80-100 bones on lunch boxes that have a 99% chance of getting lost sometime during the school year and don’t even come with drink bottles.  That’s extra.  Like 10.00 extra which = 30.00 extra when have three kids. Again, no.

There are these Vinyl bags (which I also have a collection of,) but the get gross, smelly, are hard to clean and also 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, 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 use baggies again.  Everything has a compartment.

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

The 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:

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of lunch box madness when next week we will discuss drink holding implements…duh, dunn, duhhhhhhhhhh!!