I’m totally jealous of you guys. (Gals? I’ll find out who I’m talking to this week, hopefully!)
I kind of want to win this giveaway, but I don’t think that’s going to work out.
I was impressed by how many of you said you liked supporting at-home-mom run businesses, and I absolutely agree with you. When I saw these PlanetBox stainless steel lunchboxes on another blog, I fell in love right away. They seem to be one of the most convenient ways to reduce your waste when packing lunches and avoid plastic completely at the same time. Because they’re a small family-run business, they can’t be giving away products left and right, so when I approached them, I had to choose: left or right? You or me?
I could have just grabbed one for the household and written a nice review for you all, but that would be selfish – we’re not even packing lunches anymore (hubby works at home) and yet (no kids in school). So you get the goods – I love my readers!
This felt like the perfect giveaway to close out Decreasing Disposables in December after we’ve all examined our capability to reduce, reuse, and get creative to be gentle to the earth.
One winner will receive a PlanetBox Basic Set (a $35 value!), and you can choose which set of magnets you would like to fancy up your box. They are SO COOL.
A little info: PlanetBox is the eco and easy way to pack healthy lunches for kids. Made out of high quality stainless steel, its the safe, non-toxic alternative to plastic. Part bento box, part TV dinner tray, PlanetBox is a custom-designed, all in one solution for packing well-balanced lunches kids love. Kids can personalize their PlanetBox with their choice of super hip magnet sets. Check out www.PlanetBox.com for more information.
PlanetBox – Lunch Transportation for the Green Generation.
GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED – WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH. THANKS FOR ENTERING!
HOW TO ENTER: Just leave a comment telling me what measures you already take to reduce packing waste when eating away from home. If you don’t, check out this reducing lunchtime waste post for ideas and tell me what you are GOING to do!
(If you receive KS via email, you will need to click over to the site to leave a comment.) If you’d like more chances, obtain extra entries by doing the following. You may leave all the entries in one comment and I’ll sort them out!
- Mandatory entry: How do you reduce lunch waste?
- Check out PlanetBox’s website and tell me the magnets you like best (click “Buy Now” when you get there).
- Subscribe in a reader or via email to Kitchen Stewardship (or tell me if you already do).
- If you have a blog or website, post about this giveaway linking back to this post.
- Just tell me: What kind of recipe would you be most interested in seeing here at Kitchen Stewardship?
- Follow me on Twitter AND Tweet about the giveaway (just click the button at the top of this post).
- Stumble or Digg this post (you can use the “Share This!” icon at the bottom of the post). (What is Stumble?)
- Email 5 friends (who don’t already read Kitchen Stewardship) about the giveaway.
- Stumble or Digg your favorite post or recipe at Kitchen Stewardship.
- **FIVE ENTRIES: Take the 1-minute reader survey here and, since the survey is anonymous, tell me that you did it.
Be sure to tell me everything you did in your comment. I still trust the honor system. Just be honest about what you’ve done – giveaways should be fun!
I will use random.org’s integer generator to choose the commenters who win from my list of commenter emails. The giveaway is only open to U.S. residents. Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, January 15th, and I’ll post the winners by the following Monday.
NOTE: If you sent a comment via email on 1/10 or 1/11 when my comments were broken, they absolutely count. All is well now, thanks to my husband’s troubleshooting.
If you missed the last Monday Mission, click here.
Kitchen Stewardship is dedicated to balancing God’s gifts of time, health, earth and money. If you feel called to such a mission, read more at Mission, Method, and Mary and Martha Moments.
Photos are from the PlanetBox website.
Disclosure: This one is all for you! I received nothing to run this giveaway. See my full advertising disclosure here.
1. I reduce lunch waste by packing my food in re-usable containers.
2. I like the modern art magnets best!
3. I subscribe via RSS
5. I like any whole grain recipes, or recipes with in-season produce!
10. I took the survey.
Thanks!
1.We eat at home mostly and I have tried to use cloth napkins and real plates and cups for lunches.
3. already a subscriber
5. A kid-friendly recipes with veggies for small kids still getting their teeth
10 .I took your survey
Funny you should ask about the waste. I put a resusable spoon in my daughter’s box this morning and I am going to get/make some fabric napkins too.
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Under the Sea and Rainbow are cute magnet sets for the box.
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I subscribe with Google Reader
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I took the survey. I’d love to get to know you better as our ideals seem to match. Come on over for a visit sometime!
~Lanie
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Great giveaway!
1) Reduce lunch waste by packing a “supplies” kit for husband on Mondays – bread, sandwich fillings, fresh fruit and veg/dip, etc…really it just saves me lots of time!
3) Subscriber
5) Anything toddler-friendly. I don’t want to “dumb down” good food for our little guy, but I don’t want to totally gross him out either.
10) Took the survey.
1. I have not tackled this yet but I just told my hubby that I was getting him a bento to a) save us money by eliminating fast food b) help him be healthier since I will pack his lunch. If I had this lunch box I could eliminate the plastic of the bento and all the waste he generates with the fast food bags and wrappers and napkins.
2. I would most definitely get my hubby the rocket magnets!
3. I subscribed yesterday but didn’t get today’s posts, weird.
5. I would like more snack recipes. My girls are snack crazy!
10. I took your survey!
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1. I already pack lunches in plastic boxes with more plastic boxes inside, but they keep getting broken. I need a new plan.
2. I already subscribe.
1. I use reusable lunch totes and reusable containers.
2. Definitely modern art!
5. Food my husband will eat! I can’t get him tp eat anything whole wheat or other whole grain foods. He likes white bread and white rice and corn! (Please include some healthy low-fat/low-cal chocolate recipes for me!)
10. I did the survey!
1. I’m a lifelong lunchbox/tupperware user (but I’d love to phase out some of that plastic…)
2. Definitely the Retro Kitty magnets – those are adorable!
3. I already subscribe to your RSS feed.
9. I loved and stumbled your post of storing and freezing fresh produce. I never manage to use up the whole bunch of carrots, celery, spinach, etc. so that was great.
10. Took the survey
I buy silverware at yard sales just for use in packed lunches so I don’t mind if kids lose them or are hard on them and what makes it home is reusable.
I subscribe with Google reader and I took your survey.
In an effort to reduce waste and expense I use plastic containers in lunches. I’m sure there is an even better way(such as this cool lunch box!) but this is what I do. I did complete the survey. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
1. We got some reusable snack bags for Christmas for the kiddos and I LOVE them! I’d like to learn how to make my own. I also plan to start using cloth napkins and towels to clean instead of paper. This will both save money and save on waste.
2. I LOVE the modern art magnets!
3. I am going to subscribe right now after finishing my post and will link you from my blog.
4. Do I have to join twitter???
5. I will email friends now and will stumble/digg as soon as I am done (learned something new today!)
6. I would like more simple/healthy/fast dinner recipes as I am a mom of young children
10. I took your survey!
I love Bento boxes and can never cough up the $35+ to get one…I hope I win!
love your blog and this giveaway is too cool – hubby takes his lunch to work everyday
I did the survey and subscribe by email
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1. I convinced my company to buy 3 sets of silverware, bowls, dishes and drinking glasses in order to reduce our trash.
2. I love the Under the Sea magnets.
3. I subscribe using Google Reader!
5. I’d love to see a recipe that can be quickly heated or thrown together when we come home late from work.
6. I follow you on Twitter and I’m about to retweet this.
10. I took the survey! Yay!
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1. I am using my new Wrap-n-Mat wrap for my sandwich! I really like the way it becomes my placemat. I can put my apple on it while eating. I reuse my paper sack till it falls apart. Almost out of those, so hope to find a reusable bag I like. Use reusable container for hubby’s 2 sandwiches, a Tupperware glass for milk and he takes real utensils for leftovers which are usually stored in glass containers.
2.I think I would like the Green Globe magnets, but the Undersea were pretty.
3. I subscribe via e-mail.
5. Sandwich/pannini makings. I get stumped about good things to add to make it special/yummy.
I’d love one of these for my daughters lunches away from home!
1. I reduce lunch waste by using fabric napkins and using the few glass containers I have
bought to replace all the junk plastics.
2. I think my daughter would like the rainbow magnets the best since she has a thing for rainbows!
3. I subscribe via email
4. Posted here: http://faithmariehappenings.blogspot.com/2010/01/now-i-want-to-win-this-lunch-box.html
5. As for recipes: right now I am in a breakfast funk, can’t seem to think of new stuff to serve us for breakfasts and would love some ideas that were Nourishing Traditions style.
6. stumbled (user ps1914)
7. stumbled favorite post here on apple squares
8. 5 entries for taking your survey
Thanks for the chance to win!
I took the survey!
I subscribe to your blog, I took the survey, we save the world by eating nearly every meal at home.
This is a fantastic product! I may have to buy it if I don’t win!
Here are all my entries:
1. We use recycled glass jars (p.b., spaghetti sauce, etc.) when I meet my husband for lunch. For my daughter, we are trying to get her to bring home empty plastic bags, with some success, and reuse plastic spoons. We use reusable containers instead of baggies most of the time.
2. Under the sea
3. I’m subscribed
4. linked back at http://www.savinggthosepennies.blogspot.com
5. lunch recipes, snacks
6. followin on twitter
7. stumbled this post
9. stumbled another post
10. took the survey
Luckily all the hospitals I have worked at have been big on giving employees reusable lunch totes (with their logos of course!). So we have several of those to carry lunches and use reusable containers and utensils from home. We even pack a little camping set of spices!!
I also just took your survey — I’m looking forward to what’s coming on your blog this year!
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I carry my lunch to work almost every day. I have a couple of sizes of themoses, and a zillion little ziploc containers. I’d sure like to ditch the plastic, but glass is too heavy. This looks perfect, even if I am WAY past elementary school, lol.
I like the Under the Sea magnets.
I subscribe in Google Reader.
Hmmm. My favorite recipe from you site is soup, and that’s good for lunches so more of those would be nice.
I follow you on Twitter and retweeted.
I took the survey for FIVE entries!
*I wash & reuse plastic water bottles. Not the healthiest (plastic) my goal is to get steel water bottles.
*I took the survey.
*I just signed up two or three days ago to follow blog via email.
*I think my daughter would like the under the sea magnets best.
*I like all kinds of recipes as long as we are feeding our families tasty real food. Snack ideas for kids would be helpful too.
1. we use reusable containers
2. I like the under the sea magnets
3. already a subscriber
5. breakfast recipes or meatless crockpot (loved the bean carnival)
10. I took the survey
I always pack my son’s lunches in tupperware!
I subscribe to your feed!
I try to use reusable containers instead of baggies.
Took the survey
Tweeting about it!
Love the rocket magnets!
Took your survey!
1. We reduce by using mason jars and glass containers for packing lunches.
2. the under the sea magnets rock!
5. I would love to see recipes that teach us how to turn our “normal” food into a more nourishing food. Like chocolate chip cookies with sprouted flour and sucanat.
10. I also took the survey
Oh I also subscribed as a reader!
This is really something I want to work on this year. We are not great it. This would be fantastic for my daughter’s lunches so I stop using plastic bags.
Magnets: I love Modern Art, but my daughter would love rainbows. Maybe we can compromise on Under the Sea
Subscribe by reader
Recipes I would love to see: I am always looking for healthy dishes my very picky kids would like.
Took the survey
1. We use Tupperware containers for the individual foods right now, and reusable cups. The containers get all jumbled around in the big cooler, though, so the compartmentalized box looks much nicer!
2. I like the Rocket magnets. We are very into outer space at my home these days.
3. I subscribe in Google Reader.
4. I am most interested in kid-friendly organ meat recipes. That is our next step and I am intimidated.
5-9. I took the survey!
*I use tupperware for lunch that I have had forever (I try to never use ziploc baggies).
*I like the green globe magnet style
*I took the survey
*I am a subscriber in reader
*I would love any recipe that incorporates pesto
Thanks for the giveaway!
i reduce lunch waste by packing in reusable containers & not using disposable silverware. I compost whenever it’s available & i’m getting closer to emailing someone at work to see why there’s not a compost bin in the cafeteria closest to my office. they’re in the one that furthest away.
i’ll tweet & i already follow you. i do that instead of subscribing. i don’t miss a post & my inbox doesn’t get clogged.
i was surveyed.
i like the rainbow magnets cuz of the unicorn.
i’d like to see quick recipes ideal for the person who walks in the door from work & is starving (quick prep & quick cooking).
1. We have zero lunch waste. Reusable containers, cloth napkins, real silverware (from thriftstore so ok if it gets lost), compost leftovers if any, use insulated cooler with ice pack.
2. Rocket magnets!
3. Email subscriber
4. Lunchbox recipes and gluten-free
5-9 Took your survey
first time poster and I think you rock!
To reduce lunchbox waste, we use reusable containers (glass when possible!). Oh, and I took the survey!
1. We eat at home almost every day.
2. I pink puffy heart Retro Kitty. We love “nappies” in our house!
3. I do subscribe
5. Hmm, I’d like to see more husband-friendly recipes like your hamburger helper clone!
6. Follow and tweeted.
10. I took the survey! You’ll know for sure, I outed myself. :>)
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1. We reduce lunch waste by using all reusable sacks and containers. We also buy whatever we can in bulk to reduce the waste that comes in for lunches to begin with.
2. I’m subscribed in Google Reader.
3. The recipes I’d most like to see are those with lots of leftovers, with ideas to convert them into other meals.
4. I filled out the survey.
This looks so cool! I reuse baggies and napkins until they are either full of holes or are so filthy that they won’t wash clean! I also only eat whole foods so none of my lunch comes in packaging.
I like the Modern Art magnets–retro food!
I took the reader survey.
I would like to see a recipe for whole grain sandwich bread.
Thanks!
I love your site! I’m very practical and I get this! I have 2 school age children and both my husband and I work outside the house so reducing lunch waste is huge. We each have our own lunch box/cooler and thermoses. I pack in reusable plastic or glass containers and send reusable spoons/forks so that everything gets washed at the end of the day. We use cloth napkins too.
I took your survey.
Thanks!
I reduce lunch waste by using a reusable lunch box, sandwich boxes and Tupperware containers for trail mix, etc. When I do use a baggie, I try to reuse it. I do want to get some of the reusable snack sacks I’ve seen on etsy. Also, we don’t buy many individually-packaged snack items aside from the occasional box of granola bars.
I took the survey
I subscribe in a reader
I’d like to see an artisan bread recipe (apologies if you have done this. I have only been subscribing for a couple months)
i follow you on twitter
krys13@msn.com
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1. Hubby’s sandwiches go in a reusable plastic container (not the best solution but better than plastic bags, soup in a glass jar or yogurt container.
2. Rockets of course
5. Snacks!!! Especially snacks that replace the nasty processed versions I’ve stopped buying, ie granola bars, crackers, fruit snacks
10. took the survey
When we succumb to the temptation of take-out Chinese food I save the brown bag and re-use it for my husband’s lunch bag until it is extremely tattered. I work at home so rarely transport meals for myself. I occasionally use a stainless steel bottle for beverages while out and about.
I like the “under the sea” magnets.
I subscribe in Google Reader and greatly appreciate your blog.
I’m interested in recipes for preparing and using fermented foods.
I took the survey.