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Litterless Lunch Supplies
All parents are familiar with the struggle between healthy food sent in lunches (food that will actually fuel children's brains for learning) versus "cool" food that they are more likely to eat. Already compromises must be made. Add to that concern about the amount of packaging that tends to be involved in lunch and snack-type foods and the problem becomes even more complicated. Parents, unite! It makes sense to kids even more than to adults that when we care about ourselves we have to care about our planet. They understand the benefits of good clean earth, just watch them dig in it, build with it, and generally cover themselves in it!
A litterless lunch is cheaper and healthier than a packaged one, and we all have tupperware and re-useable yogurt containers that can be filled again and again. Now the only challenge is to get everyone doing it, so that it, too, will be "cool" by being popular! School age children can generally pack their own lunches, as long as the agreed-upon food and the reuseable containers are kept in the same, easy-to-reach spot. Younger children crave a certain amount of responsibility, and packing a lunch is a great habit to get them into, whether they do it the evening before and put it in the fridge, or in the morning before they leave. It's also a sure-fire way to avoid the "yuck, what's this in my lunch?" mentality.
Resource & Information Links
Life Without Plastic
www.lifewithoutplastic.com
Interesting information about why and how to avoid plastic in our daily lives, including food storage containers, water bottles, etc. They also sell non-plastic items including water bottles and reusable lunch containers.
Peterborough Green-Up
www.greenup.on.ca
Information on the "Quest For Less" waste reduction challenge: curriculum-linked school programming for elementary school children in Peterborough and County.
Sustainable Table
www.sustainabletable.org/schools
American litterless lunch and food sustainability site, very good information.
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