Well, I mean green as in Earth Day! We all know that bringing a lunch with you to work or sending kids to school with a lunch is an outstanding way to save money and eat more healthfully. But are you still using the old brown bag and disposable plastic bags?
In honor of Earth Day today, and in the spirit of all things Efficient, I want to share with you my friend Kelly Lester's own invention, EasyLunchboxes. They are divided containers that make it easy to pack your lunch in a reusable, earth-friendly way, and they fit in their own insulated bag with room for a drink and an ice pack on the top.
I like them so much, I am giving one away! Comment here on this post to enter, and we'll choose the winner via a random number drawing. Winner will get one container and one lunch bag (you get to choose the color), value of $21.90 USD. We'll take entries on this through Sunday, May 1st, 2011, and we'll notify you based on the (private) email address you provide when you comment here. We'll also announce the winner in our weekly newsletter. (This giveaway is offered to US & Canadian residents only. Please do not enter this giveaway if you have won or received free product from EasyLunchboxes within the past 3 months.)
Here are some more Earth Day fun things to do!
- "Like" the EasyLunchboxes Facebook page where Kelly has some fun lunch tips and people share photos of their awesome lunch-packing skills. :) Also watch her INCREDIBLE YouTube webisode series with Barry Williams ("Greg Brady") and other stars! (She puts my videos to shame.)
- DONATE to Goodwill®! Take that stagnant stuff out of your house, keep it out of the landfill, and put it to work–helping Goodwill put people to work! See the landfill ticker at the bottom of the page at http://donate.goodwill.org — so far, 2.5 BILLION pounds of usable goods have been diverted from landfills since 2010!
- Find out the impact of your donations with Goodwill's Donation Impact Calculator. Put in your donated items, such as 2 shirts, 3 DVDs, etc. and you can find out how it helps. For example, one working computer provides 8.1 hours of on-the-job training for someone in your community!
- Watch our new Donate Movement partner Planet Green and their new show, Dresscue Me, featuring vintage fashion and finds from Goodwill!
Enjoy Earth Day, and share your favorite green tips as you enter our contest below!
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Just learned about your site through Easy Lunch Boxes on Facebook. Can’t wait to read more! I’d like to get these lunchboxes for my whole family. A free one would be a fabulous start! 🙂
Love the site!
What a great idea- easy lunchboxes….makes Eco-sense to me!
We homeschool, but still find ourselves packing lunches when we go on field trips or other activities. Since it is just the three of us on these trips – this lunchbox would be perfect. How nice it would be to have one container that held everyone’s lunch.
Just finished watching your pantry organization video clip……wonderful ideas and I’m soon off to do some more investigating of your site. Would absolutely love the lunch kit. What a wonderful giveaway and so generous!!
I love your blog and book! I am slowly purging our house of clutter and feeling better all the time. I have been meaning to order some Easy Lunchboxes for my kids for school next year – fabulous idea!
These look great. Love your blog and liked their facebook page.
What an awesome idea. Count me in
I have had my eye on the Easy Lunchboxes for some time. I would LOVE to win one! : )
I’m always up for a “green” lunch 🙂 We’re planning on buying two new lunchboxes soon and these just might be what we need! We also LOVE the Lunchskins Sandwich and Snack bags from the Container Store for anything that doesn’t fit in a container!
Great ideas!! Would love to try with my picky eater.
Great idea for a giveaway!
I love the look of these lunch boxes. They would be perfect for my preschooler!
I love how the container fits in the cooler. I have so much trouble finding the right sizes.
I love the look of these lunch boxes/bags. My favorite is the blue one. In attempting to get healthy, I pack my lunch for work everyday, am eating less (but what I want), and have lost 24 pounds so far (since January 22nd). This set would work much better than the baggies and stretch wrap I normally use!
Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
That looks wonderful! I’d love to win.
My oldest child begins kindergarten in the fall, and this lunchbox would be perfect!
I have been looking for something like this-GREAT idea! thanks for the opportunity to WIN one!
Would love to win this awesome lunch box.
I saw these on another post of yous awhile back – they look wonderful – I’d love to win one.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Yay for easy! And yay for lunch! (I really like lunch, almost as much as I like easy)
This looks great – I’d love to enter! My favorite green tip is recycling!
Great tip! Love the lunchboxes and enjoyed watching some of Kelly’s You Tube videos. Thanks for sharing
I would love to have one!! Count me in.
Thank you for all the great tips.
Wow I love that!!! I am guilty of using ziploc bags for my fruit when I take lunch to work, though I do use an earth-friendly lunch bag. I would love to own that! 🙂
I would love to get rid of the baggies in my kid’s lunches!
What a great system! I usually piece together some combo of tupperware and tote bag for lunches to go, and it would be great to have a real lunch-bag!
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I would love to win a set of these. It would be so much easier to make sure I’m leaving a healthy lunch for my kids this way.
I like Easy Lunchboxes on FT (Chris Fretwell)
Love to win this for my daughter! Thanks for the chance 🙂
These are awesome!
Love BOTH of these two sites!!! 🙂
That lunchbox is mine! Haha just kidding. Only a couple of days left till the drawing, good luck to everyone!
Susan Ryan
Audiocanyon
I feel guilty every time I use a baggie! I bought a cheap, re-usable sandwich sack but it’s not cutting the mustard, so to speak.
love these
Wow…my hubby is about to head back to work and these would be great for him! I hope I’m lucky enough!
emmerswee at gmail dot com
I can’t believe I don’t have one of these yet–I would love to have this lunch packing option.
this is great. i use ziploc for my fruit too. lol. but i do use a cooler every so often, but this would be great to win!
It sure beats the plastic bag I have been carrying everyday, which always manages to leak onto the floor.
I love this idea..would encourage me to pack lunch more often! I really enjoy reading all your tips.
These lunch boxes are a great idea. They look great.
I just found your site and have started reading the book. I think there might be hope for me yet.
Pick me, pick me. I use way too many ziploc bags!
These lunchboxes look great – the containers are just the right size. I struggle with the containers we currently use not fitting well in my daughters’ lunchboxes. I’d love to try one of these out!
I totally need a good food on the go container solution. I’ve been taking raw food “cooking” classes (with @Heather Haxo-Phillips of @Raw Bay Area) and slowly transitioning to a more healthy way of eating. Bringing my own homemade super healthy gourmet raw food snacks and lunches along win me in these containers would be so nice!
What a wonderful giveaway!!! This would make packing a lunch a SNAP!! I love.love…love divided dishes and have a few that have seen probably far too many years :(. thank you for a wonderful opportunity. Good luck everyone!!
I would love to win! good luck everyone!
Since I never win anything I guess I should go ahead and order one of these. It looks like it would streamline my life immensely.
Just found Easy Lunchboxes today and I would love to give them a try. My daughter will be starting preschool in the Fall and these would be great for her lunches! Thanks for the chance to win!
Sounds like a grand idea!
I love your clutter busting info – and re-usable lunchboxes are the best! I’d love to win one. 🙂
Love it! Would thoroughly enjoy having one to use! Keep the great tips coming… =)
Finally – someone is thinking! Great idea.
Tired of using 3 or 4 plastic sandwich bags per brown bag lunch, great idea
Hi – I love the idea of reusabe lunch containers. I am sad to say now all I use right now are the disposable plastic sandwich bags. If I won this easylunchbox I would use it every day.
E Drake
Love these containers! I’m also guilty of using sandwich bags.
I’m really enjoying the blog. I have to pack a daily lunch. Thanks for the support Lorie! I’ll bet you don’t realize how all the tips help my life!
I currently pack my daughter’s lunch every day, but use separate plastic containers. This lunchbox would be even easier for her to use! Great idea and colors!
Laura
We’ve been using efficient but bulky multiple tiny glad tupperwares for our kid’s lunches. And… hmm… maybe we should start eating green lunch more efficiently too!
Impossible to watch the opportunity to eat green more efficiently go by without trying to grab it!
Thanks!
I invite you to go to the website: Greenplate.org and take the 7-day challenge (re: plastics). One of the days is about bringing your own container for restaurant leftovers and avoiding plastic silverware. Sounds like this Easy Lunch container would be just the thing!
Purple, Please. I LOVE this!
These are awesome! Can’t wait to try them. Thank you for you info.
I have been looking for a container that would fit my morning bagel and a lunch too. Thank You for sharing this awesome green idea on your forum!
I would love to win that great lunch set! I’m trying to carry much lunch more often, so it’d sure help!
What a wonderful idea! If you had two, the one you used that day could go in the dishwasher and the second one could be used to pack your lunch for the next day!
Just commented this morning that I needed something cute to carry my lunch in & this would be perfect!
School lunch prices here in Hawaii have DOULBLED over the last school year and they don’t seem very healthy to me anyway. I think they would like to take their lunches in these containers. I wanna win!
My kids love Lunchables and I have been trying to give them healthier lunches. This would make packing easier.
I pack my 8 year old’s lunch daily, along with my own. I also pack snacks for both of my boys when in the car. We use sandwich and snack bags like they are going out of style! Would love to convert to this earth friendly container :o)
entering the win an easylunchbox system!
These look great and my son is in need of a new lunch box. Love it!
I’m on the road, in sales, so a lunchbox that sits upright and holds what I need to take while keeping things cold would be wonderful!
Awesome giveaway! Just what I need to inspire me to pack a lunch.
avonplease@hotmaildotcom
My son and husband both pack lunches, and trying to figure out how to keep things separate without ziplocs is tough. These look like a great solution. Thanks for sharing!
Easy Lunch Boxes look neat! I currently pack most of my children’s items in plastic baggies because it fits better in their reusable lunch boxes, and then I wash the baggies and reuse. It’s a time consuming chore, but I feel it’s the right thing to do to avoid creating excess waste. How great it would be to use an easy lunch box instead 🙂
These would be great for people that work 12-hour shifts, especially the night shift. So many places (hospitals for me) close the cafeteria after 8 or 9 in the evening. If you work 7p – 7a it’s very seldom possible to get down there for food for later. And, even then the food is left over from all day. Then your only choice is vending machine food. What a great idea this is!!!
I LOVE when you share a new gadget or idea! They are always so right on!!! Thanks Laurie!!!
I just did a second attempt on the bento box for my daughter and she LOVED it. It would be so much more convenient to have a special container for it.
I really look forward to making some of the lunch ideas shared on facebook.
These lunchboxes look fantastic! I’ve been looking for a lunchbox but haven’t been happy with anything I’ve found.
What a great idea! Count me in!
Win one! Buy one! My husband and I will both be green. 🙂 He has diabetes and just had heart surgery in February. He’s doing great! Carrying a healthy lunch is part of our weight loss plan. Cleaning out the garage is part of the “Clutter Diet” plan!
I packed my lunch everyday and would love to use just one container and avoid using plastic baggies if I can. Would be nice to use an eco friendly container.
This is a great idea. It would be nice to have only one container to open. My 5 year old- has troubles if there is no lip on the lid. Sounds great. Please enter me in the drawing.
Great idea! Thanks Lorie
I have been using the three divider ziplock containers for some time now. But I don’t have a lunch bag to put them in, because the are a tad bit larger than my lunch boxes. This bag looks like the perfect fit! 🙂
The lunch box system looks great. I am constantly looking for the freezer packs. If they are in the freezer, they usually fall out onto the floor. Then, the freezie’s don’t seem to fit into the insulated bag w/ the food. Please enter me into the contest to win a lunch box. Thanks, Sheryl
I use sandwhich boxes I got at the dollar spot, but I would love to use these, knowing they are bpa free!! My 5 year old is going to kindergarten in the fall and she picked out the purple bag from the site 🙂
I stopped using plastic baggies and disposables a couple years ago for my children’s lunches. We have always used cloth napkins also. They are easily used for two-three days because they don’t tear. Then washed with a load of towels! It is easy to be green. (And it saves a lot of money too!!!)
The lunch-box set looks super practical but I would suggest Ms. Lester to sell her containers in 5-set instead of a set of 4, because there are 5 days in a work week and for planning freaks who like to prepare a whole week worth of meals in advance, or for their more relaxed counterparts that will regularly realize on Thursday evenings that the all 4 boxes are waiting for the dishwasher to run -or piling up in the sink, 5 boxes in rotation seems a more convenient number.
wow, that is a great closet to Efficiently Pack a GREEN Lunch!