Lead-Free Laptop Lunch Bento Sets 2.0 (in New Colours)- Bento Box with lunch ideas book.
Recently featured in Sweetspot.ca - laptop lunches are not just for kids! These environmentally friendly lunchboxes were also featured in Oprah, Chatelaine, Woman's Day, Parent's magazine, Prevention, Everyday with Rachael Ray, and seen on TV shows such as Martha Stewart, ABC news, The Today Show, Early Show, etc.
Colours available:
Dimensions: Outer box: 9 inchesx 7 inches x2.25 inches larger inner containers = 4.75 x 3.12 x 2 inches smaller inner containers = 3.12 x 2.5 x 2 inches dip container = 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches
Volume large inner containers = 1 1/4 cup and 1 2/3 cup small inner containers = 3/4 cup and 2/3 cup dip container = 1/8 cup
Utensils: 6.5" long
The Laptop Lunch Bento Box with book is a lead-free tested lunch kit that enables parents to pack wholesome, low-waste meals for their kids. It uses a very cool bento box inspired setup that includes a snap shut tray housing 5 colorful FDA-approved microwave safe food containers and stainless steel utensils. It 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 Bento Box promotes lunchtime nutrition by offering parents a way to replace processed, prepackaged foods with more nutritious alternatives. Kids love the colorful, puzzle piece containers. And like all of the products we offer, it provides a smart combination of function, durability, style and value.
Safety
The Laptop Lunch Bento Box 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 Bento Box.
Design
The Laptop Lunch Bento Box 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 Bento Box integrates a large snap-shut tray, five colorful, modular containers and stainless steel utensils. 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.
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 Bento Box'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.
Also included with the Laptop Lunch Bento Box 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 '04)
One of the main design objectives for the Laptop Lunch Bento Box 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 Bento Box will pay for itself in as little as 25 uses.
Quality and Durability
The Laptop Lunch Bento Box 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 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.
Laptop Lunches 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.
Top rack dishwasher safe.
