Talk about brown bagging with style.
Featured in Sweetspot recently - laptop lunches are not just for kids! These environmentally friendly lunchboxes were also featured in Chalelaine, Woman's Day, Parent's magazine, Prevention, Everyday with Rachael Ray, and seen on TV shows such as Martha Stewart, ABC news, Today Show, Early Show..etc
Cool modular design features a thermal, zippered carrying case that houses a large snap-shut tray, five reusable microwave safe food containers, a sport bottle, and a stainless steel fork and spoon.
Creative and economical system for helping parents pack wholesome, low-waste meals. Includes a 96-page "User's Guide" loaded with healthy recipes and tips for reducing throwaways.
Designed for kids - incorporates fun colors and a puzzle piece design A fashionable, sustainable alternative to wasteful, single-use containers that saves you money. Ideal for school lunches and for packing a healthy meal during travel. Completely lead-free and safe for kids!
Dimensions:
carrying case = 12" x 8" x 2.75"
12 oz sport bottle = 2" x 2" x 7"
outer container = 9" x 7" x 2"
(For interior dimensions, see bottom of page)
Functional, reusable and fun, the (lead-free tested) Laptop Lunch Kit enables parents to pack wholesome, low-waste meals for their kids using a very cool setup that includes a thermal, zippered bag, a large snap-shut tray, five FDA-approved microwave safe food containers, a sport bottle, and stainless steel utensils. The Kit also includes an educational and comprehensive "User's Guide," with healthy lunch recipes and tips for reducing waste. Thoughtfully designed to cut down on the consumption of wasteful, single-use containers that inundate our school lunchrooms, the Laptop Lunch Kit promotes lunchtime nutrition by offering parents a way to replace processed, prepackaged foods with more nutritious alternatives. Kids love the colorful, puzzle piece containers that fit snugly into the stylish thermal carrying case. And like all of the products we offer, it provides a smart combination of function, durability, style and value.
Design
The Laptop Lunch Kit was modeled after the traditional bento box, a container used in Japanese culture to pack single-portion takeout meals. Updating this classic design, the Laptop Lunch Kit integrates a large snap-shut tray, five colorful, modular containers, a reusable sport bottle and stainless steel utensils into a zippered carrying case. All the pieces fit together like a puzzle, making it easy to identify a missing item from the set. The five food containers vary in size and two come with lids, enabling parents to pack dry and wet foods securely. The un-lidded containers are designed to accommodate dry foods such as vegetable sticks, crackers, cereal, sliced apple, etc. The lidded containers are perfect for wet foods, such as soups, yogurt, cottage cheese, and dressings. All of the food containers fit into a larger snap-shut tray, which slides into a custom designed, thermal carrying case.
The choice to include only two lids was intentional. Surveys indicated that usually one wet food was packed in kid's lunches, and the search for mismatched lids was the number one frustration for parents that packed lunches in reusable containers. The Laptop Lunch Kit's unique design alleviates these issues. And from a kid's perspective, the presentation is exciting. It?s more fun to open a bag and see nicely presented food, as opposed to a row of lids.
The insulated zippered carrying case features an interior mesh pocket for placing an ice pack, keeping temperature sensitive foods cool and protected from the heat. The case also has an outer envelope pocket that zips shut. It's great for packing a cloth napkin. Designed to fit on an airplane tray, the thermal carrying case has a durable shoulder strap and is very useful for meals while traveling. The case sports a stylish nametag for parents to label their child's kit.
Also included with the Laptop Lunch Kit is a 96-page "User's Guide" featuring information on nutrition, packing a smart lunch, wholesome, quick-meal lunch recipes and tips on reducing waste.
Sustainability
Fact: According to the New York State Department of Conservation, parents who pack a child's lunch in disposable bags or containers generate 45 to 90 pounds of garbage every year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of lunch waste for just one average-size elementary school.
Fact: "Lunchtime trash is second only to office paper as the leading source of school waste..."(Green Teacher Magazine, Fall 2004)
One of the main design objectives for the Laptop Lunch Kit was to provide parents with a sustainable alternative to the wasteful, single-use containers so prevalent in today's school lunches<. Home made lunches are not only more nutritious than prepackaged lunches, but they tend to cost less as well. It has been estimated that a person taking a disposable lunch to school will spend an average of $4.02 per day or $723.60 per school year. A person who packs a waste-free lunch will spend about $2.65 a day or $477.00 per school year. That equates into about $250 in savings per person/year.
The Laptop Lunch Kit will pay for itself in as little as 25 uses.
Safety
The Laptop Lunch Kit has been thoroughly tested by its manufacturer and is completely lead-free. Its dishwasher safe food containers are made using plastics (polypropylene and polyethylene) that are FDA-approved for food use, and will not leach harmful chemicals into food. No binding agents, plasticizers, or other materials suspected to contain carcinogens or endocrine disrupters are used to make the Laptop Lunch Kit.
The insulated, thermal carrying case also helps protect foods from the possibility of developing harmful bacteria, especially during those hours between leaving the house and lunchtime. And the stainless steel fork and spoon are safer to use than disposable utensils and are easy to handle and clean.
Quality and Durability
The Laptop Lunch Kit is made of high-quality materials and is built to last. Sturdy, rigid containers help prevent "squishing," keeping foods secure during the occasional bumps and bruises on trips to school. Its utensils are made from durable, easy to clean stainless steel. The thermal carrying case has a durable nylon shoulder strap with large, easy to grab zippers.
The Laptop Lunch Kit's food containers are made in California, at a manufacturing site that adheres to strict health, safety and environmental standards. This was a conscious decision by the product's developers, who wanted to ensure that the food containers were made safely and to the highest standards possible.
Made with fair wages paid using fair labor practices
The Laptop Lunch Kit was developed by two mothers (Tammy Pelstring and Amy Hemmert) with a mission of helping families improve lunchtime nutrition and reduce waste. And since they believe that healthy kids come from healthy communities, they donate a portion of profits to schools and environmental organizations.
Interior dimensions: Inner containers = (large) 4.5" x 3" x 1.75"; (large) 4.75" x 3" x 1.75"; (medium) 2" x 3" x 1.75"; (small) 1.5" x 1.5" x 1.75"
