My Baby's Green: ECOlunchboxes {Giveaway)

Tired of using Tupperware and other plastics? Looking for a free lunch? Ready to commit to a litter free lunch? These lunchboxes and lunchbags are 100% plastic-free, waste-free, lead-free, BPA-free, PVC-free and vinyl-free. In other words, it's healthy for people and the planet! It's so easy to switch to reusable lunchware so why not do it? Reducing lunch waste can be easy, fashionable and fun with ECOlunchboxes.

Families are realizing that packing a lunch can be healthy for people and the planet – and it can be very cost effective. ECOlunchboxes lunch waste study showed that a typical family generates more than 4,000 pieces of trash unnecessarily and the packaging and pre-packaged foods end up costing them hundreds of dollars extra.

No excuses-start taking a litter free lunch today!

My take-When I was offered one of their ECOlunchbags and a 3-in-one rectangle ECOlunchbox to review, of course I was excited. When I was first looking for products to offer at MBG, the first item that I sampled was a bag from another site that carried ECOlunchboxes. I liked it so well that it was one of the first items I ordered to added to My Baby’s Green inventory. The quality, the ability to throw the ECOlunchbag in the washing machine, and of course the idea of offering better solutions for a litter free lunch. These handmade lunchbags are sewn from hand block printed fabrics in India. ECOlunchboxes buy directly from the village artisans and they are handmade in a mom-and-pop sewing shop in Mumbai, India. The flexible strap system of the ECOlunchbag is designed for easy adjustments. Children and adults can carry the bag in a variety of different ways, depending on their preferences and height. As a hands-free hip bag, as stylish over-the-shoulder messenger bag, as a purse with two straps over your shoulder or as backpack so you can ride your bike to school or work.

When I worked full time out side of the home, I took my ECOlunchbag and OVAL lunchbox everyday, along with snack bags and my bamboo utensil set. In the ECOlunchbag I was easily able to carry the OVAL lunchbox, bamboo utensils, a large side kick, the stainless steel cup that came with the OVAL lunchbox and the 3 matching cloth napkins that came with the ECOlunchbag, plus 1-2 snack bags. Yes, I did snack a lot but what I took WAS healthy for me. Well, most of the time :) The bag, which is 100% sweatshop free, measures 8 inches tall, 13 inches wide & 5 1⁄2 inches deep.

In the OVAL lunchbox I was able to fit a HUGE salad in it-half of one of the tubs that you get at the grocery store! In the stainless steel cup I either put grapes or yogurt. I buy organic yogurt in bulk so this worked perfectly for me. The lid held up with no leaks at all.

I do not carry the Rectangle 3-in-1 ECOlunchbox on my website, so I was even more excited to try it. Most children prefer their foods served separately... they don't like them touching, so the Rectangle 3-in-1 fits the bill perfectly. It's great for adults, too and it did exactly what it said it could. I was able to place a sandwich in the bottom tier, potato salad in the second and carrot sticks in the smallest. Now when we are going to be out most of the day, I use it to take Gracie’s food in. I also use the stainless steel cup from the OVAL lunchbox set to take along her some yogurt too. Both of the ECOlunchboxes were also perfect for visiting Grandma and Grandpa’s in WV. Why? Because we had NO leaks what so ever, which parents know, is a BLESSING!

How Ecolunchboxes came to be-by Sandra Ann Harris-Founder. ECOlunchboxes began selling handmade cotton lunchbags and stainless steel food containers in 2008 at craft fairs and holiday boutiques. I’d been looking for lunchware for my children for several years and decided to design my own cotton lunchbag with napkins and pair it with stainless steel food containers.Sitting down at the sewing machine to come up with something both my son and daughter would like, I designed a few different prototypes and tested them out on my kids and their friends. I decided that our original ECOlunchbag should be shaped like a traditional kraft paper bag and work as a backpack (for my son) and as a purse (for my daughter).I started ECOlunchboxes because I was tired of using so much plastic and concerned about its potential health effects on my family. And I couldn’t stand to see so many plastic baggies, paper napkins, plastic forks, etc... thrown away at my kids’ schools.It seemed like every month or so there was a new warning about another kind of plastic to be avoided. It was (and still is!) impossible to know what types of plastics, vinyls and other man-made synthetics were safe. And which ones were not safe? So I developed our ECOlunchbags and ECOlunchboxes out of tried-and-true natural materials: cotton and steel.

The results of a study by ECOlunchboxes show that an average family using throw-aways and pre-packaged foods for lunch spends hundreds of dollars more each year than a family that buys food in bulk and packs lunches in reusable lunchware, such as the reusable and non-leaching ECO lunch box stainless steel food containers.

This "lunch math" calculation by ECOlunchboxes assumes that the average family packing a traditional wasteful lunch would pack a lunch five times a week that includes a sandwich in a Ziploc baggie, one juice box, a yogurt cup with a plastic spoon, a snack pack of crackers and a paper napkin.

The ECOlunchboxes's study determined that one Vanity Fair brand napkin costs about 2 cents; one Safeway brand plastic spoon costs about 4 cents; 1 Minute Made 6.75-ounce apple juice box costs about 41 cents; 1 Yoplait 6-ounce yogurt cup costs about 70 cents; 1 Cheez-It snack pack costs about 37 cents; and, of course, each Ziploc baggie for a sandwich costs about 6 cents, which adds up to $1.60 per day for all the throw-aways and pre -packaged items. The "lunch math" carries out to $384 per person annually for these disposable items.

When this "lunch math" statistic is tripled to account for two children and one parent, the total costs of the throw-aways and pre-packaged foods amounts to $1,152 annually -- not to mention the pile of trash generated by this diet. The study by Ecolunchboxes shows that using a reusable, stainless steel ECO lunch box and matching yogurt cup to hold servings of yogurt, sandwiches, applesauce, or crackers bought in economy-size containers as well as packing ECOlunchbag cloth napkins, reusable bamboo utensils and reusable canteens would save nearly $400 annually for a family this size.

This was to be a review only but I decided to offer to one lucky winner one of the ECOlunchettes below. I have used it as a purse and a small diaper bag for quick errands as well as a lunchbag. It was made to carry one of the ECOlunchboxes and a water bottle but of course I prefer to carry one of the stainless steel bottles that can be found at

My Baby's Green.

ECOlunchette carries as a purse and zips closed. It's beautifully handmade, machine washable, fully lined and comes with one matching napkin.

• The lining is loose and can be easily spot washed at the sink for easy overnight drying or machine washed/tumble dry.
• The bag, which is 100% sweatshop free, measures 8 inches tall, 13 inches wide & 5 1/2 inches deep.
• Handmade from fabrics that are traditionally block printed by artisans in India
• The matching napkin measures 16 inches by 12 inches and is designed for use as a placemat or napkin.
• Designed to fit our stainless steel ECOlunchbox food containers & a water bottle.

GIVEAWAY-1 lucky reader will win 1 ECOlunchette-choose from two designs-$30 value

RULES-This contest is open to the US and Canada. You have until 11:55 p.m. EST August 29, 2010 to enter. The winner will be chosen by randoom.org on August 30, 2010 and announced after the winner responds to the winning email. The winner has 48 hours to respond to the winning email, or a new winner will be chosen. Very important-you MUST leave your email address in your first comment. It is the only way I can contact you. Please see Giveaway Rules for more information.

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Thanks to ECOlunchboxes-they have offered the first 6 people that purchase either an ECOlunchbag or ECOlunchbox from My Baby's Green, a spork which measures 3 1/4 inches long overall and is constructed of high-quality 18/10 stainless steel.

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