One of our favorite annual features of Green Child’s digital magazine – the Back to School Lunch & Gear Guide always helps us get back into the swing of packing healthy lunches. Even after 8 years, we enjoy the challenge of coming up with new healthy school lunch ideas. It is important that kids eat…
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Rethinking Single Serve Coffee Pods
The next time you head for the single serve coffee maker at home or at the office, you might want to rethink that convenient cup of java. In 2014 alone, almost ten billion of those little single serve pods made their way into landfills. Yes, you read that right, and it isn’t a typo. Ten…
30+ Fresh Ideas for Easy, Healthy Lunches!
We’ve taste tested and had a ton of fun, and now we’re bring you a fun list of healthy foods that both you and your children an love! — plus our favorite waste-free gear to store it in! This special section of our back-to-school issue contains more than thirty deliciously healthy (and simple) i,ideas to…
How packing a waste-free lunch could save your family $400 a year
It’s back to school time, and for many families with young children, that means back to the morning routine of getting the kids out of bed, dressed, and out the door with a packed lunch and snack for the day. During the inevitable morning scramble, putting together a lunch, or several lunches, often leads to…
Healthy School Lunches + Cool Gear to Pack It In!
Our annual back to school lunch guide offers 40+ healthy lunch ideas and plenty of fun ways to pack them!
How to Choose Waste-Free Lunch Supplies
We’ve always done our best to pack waste-free lunches. Our boys have used stainless steel water bottles all along, but for packing food, we’ve experimented with everything from BPA-free plastic to stainless or glass containers. I’m fairly certain that – unless for a field trip – we haven’t sent a plastic container or baggie to school…
Safe Lunches: How to choose non-toxic lunch gear
Why go to the trouble of packing healthy, organic food for your child’s lunch if it’s going to sit in endocrine disrupting plastic all day? Today we’re talking about the importance of choosing non-toxic lunch gear this school year. Children are more vulnerable than adults to the harmful effects any substance can have on…
35+ Easy Lunch Ideas!
The school season is rich with learning, movement, excitement and routine. When it comes to packing lunch, it’s probably safe to say that we’ve all found ourselves in a rut of the same handful of items from time to time. This special section of our back-to-school issue contains more than thirty-five healthy, simple ideas to…
