the plastic sandwich bag flunks

[Anonymous]

I wonder how many people who won't buy plastic bags are driving their kids to school in bigass SUVs or keeping their houses at 72 degrees year-round.

[Anonymous]

Or working upteen hours to rake in the dough and at the same time consuming electricity and AC or heat at work, polluting the environment by commuting alone in a car and eating food from styrofoam containers or using other short cuts that pollute the environment.

[Anonymous]

I'm not uber-crunchy, but switching away from one-use plastic bags for my kids' lunches really wasn't very hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many people who won't buy plastic bags are driving their kids to school in bigass SUVs or keeping their houses at 72 degrees year-round.

OP here. We drive a small Hyundai and a bigger Hyundai sedan. The reason we have the bigger one is that I felt I needed a "heavy" car with good safety features to cart the kids in in case we get in a collision with a monster SUV or truck (the heavier cars tends to cause more damage to the smaller ones through simple physics, all other things being equal). We tried to do without two cars after moving here but it made life hellish so we finally caved in and bought the second one. If there were a lot fewer SUVs on the road, we'd have very small cars. We combine trips.
We keep the house at 78 to 80 in the summer, depending on the humidity, and at 68 tops in the winter (I lower it to 60 when I'm alone in the house or when we leave or at night, but it generally doesn't get that low).
We compost. We recycle. We don't spray our lawn.

We're trying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not uber-crunchy, but switching away from one-use plastic bags for my kids' lunches really wasn't very hard.

I agree with this. I switched to Laptop Lunchbox (www.laptoplunches.com) 5 or 6 years ago for my own lunches and love them. Now that I have 2 LOs, we use the lock & lock containers with the individual trays (they have several sizes - 3.6 cup, 1.5 cup, etc) because they're appetites aren't big enough for the bigger size laptop lunchbox yet.

[Anonymous]

We have the stainless steel lunch bot with the divider in the middle. We've only been using it for a week, but so far it was worked well for sandwiches as well as for hummus on one side/carrots on the other. It fits nicely in the bottom of one of those neoprene washable lunch bags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not uber-crunchy, but switching away from one-use plastic bags for my kids' lunches really wasn't very hard.

Same here. We have a small collection of Gladware, Tupperware, and some snap-n-lock containers from Staples, as well as one Thermos and one metal water bottle per child. All of the containers work in the kids' lunchboxes.

It is really not hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We use these containers from Container Store and have been very happy.
http://www.containerstore.com/shop/backtoSchool/lunchtimeEssentials/foodContainers?productId=10025083&N=80237

I was just about to post those! We've been using them for a few years now. They hold up well, and hold a suprising amount of food. It's usually the only thing I send in the lunchbox, along with a juice or milk.

[Anonymous]

I've been struggling to find little containers to put in my son's lunch box so I won't have to use baggies. I do wash and reuse the baggies, but would rather use something else. But I can't find containers that fit in a standard lunch box (beloved Oriole's thing kid wanted). I can't get both a container with a sandwich, a thermos, and a little tub of applesauce in there.

Sorry, first time lunch packer for a pre k kid here. What am I doing wrong?