Comments on: 18+ Zero-Waste Healthy School Lunch Ideas

By: Danielle @Wholefully

Danielle @Wholefully — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:49:52 +0000

In reply to Anne.

Hi Anne! We go into all that in this post on how to pack zero-waste lunches: https://wholefully.com/zero-waste-school-lunches/. We do exactly what you said—we send stuff that needs to be kept cold with an ice pack, and we heat up warm food in the morning and send them in a thermos. They do tend to get a little soggy, but our kiddos generally don’t mind. If you find that they do, then you can send the stuff at room temp or pick different options for lunch. Every kid’s different, so you may need to experiment a bit to figure out what will work best for your kids!

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:16:07 +0000

Hi! I love your lunch ideas, but I am curious how you actually pack the Bento box for school. The egg muffins the The yogurt, the meatballs, etc. I would assume most of that stuff needs to be kept cool so my kids have a bento box that then goes inside a packable lunchbox made for bento boxes with a thin ice pack to keep their lunches. Cool I’m gonna send hot. I send another thermos, but like I would love to send them quesadillas, but I don’t think they would eat them cold, but I think it’s in the thermos if you heat them up and then put them in the thermos they get soggy so I was wondering what your ideas are on that?
Thank you

By: Cassie Johnston

Cassie Johnston — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:47:22 +0000

In reply to Karyn. No, our school has snack time each day with fruits or veggies provided by students. :)

By: Karyn

Karyn — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:07:55 +0000

Do you pack additional food for morning and afternoon snacks?