{"id":46676,"date":"2014-08-11T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T09:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.well.ca\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:53:55","slug":"litterless-lunch-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/well.ca\/blog\/litterless-lunch-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Litterless Lunch Checklist & Buying Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the first week of school approaches, parents are starting to smile again. Summer is coming to a close and our kidlets are heading back to school…but while we may have missed the school-day routine, we definitely haven\u2019t missed packing school lunches (5 lunches a week for 40 weeks is entirely too many lunches to look forward to making).<\/p>\n

This year, why not\u00a0give them green lunches (and we don’t mean that week-old sandwich they never ate)? The word on the crosswalk is that litterless<\/em> is the way to go. While every school has a different level of “litterless,” everyone could certainly decrease their disposable lunch packaging this year. The statistics show that a typical elementary student throws away their body weight each year in lunch packaging alone. This has to stop!<\/p>\n

Your Litterless Lunch Checklist: What you need to get through a year of 200 litterless lunches<\/h5>\n

1. Lunch Bags<\/a>:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"Keep<\/td>\n\"Skip<\/td>\n\"Fluf<\/td>\n\"Parkland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SoYoung Raw Linen Orange Fox Lunch Box<\/a><\/td>\nKeep Leaf Lunch Bag Robot<\/a><\/td>\nSkip Hop ZOO Lunchies Insulated Lunch Bag Unicorn<\/a><\/td>\nFluf Shark Zipper Organic Lunch Bag<\/a><\/td>\nParkland Rodeo Lunch Kit Cactus Flower<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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PRO TIP: Buy 2 or 3\u2014one invariably gets left at school some days and one might be dirty)<\/b><\/p>\n

Just like kiddoes, lunch bags<\/a> come in different sizes, shapes and forms. They also come in every kind of fabric, colour and design. When shopping for a lunch bag, you need to keep a few things in mind:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n