Back to school lunches made healthy, safe and easy
File under 'cool back to school ideas' - OEC's new Eco-Healthy Lunch Box Kit helps reduce kids’ exposures to toxins and puts more healthy, local and tasty foods in school diets.
The Eco-Healthy Lunch Box is healthy, sustainable...and a blank slate ready to be colored on!
We're happy to announce that our Eco-Healthy Lunch Box kits are now available for purchase - just in time for the back-to-school rush! (Isn't it too early for 'back to school'? Isn't it always?)
This kit is designed to help kids eat healthy, local and organic foods while reducing their exposure to toxins from products we all use every day. The kit includes practical tools for a youngster's healthy lunch as well as educational materials, recipes and guidelines for grown-ups.
Cool stuff like Spudware (potato-based utensils break down in the environment), bisphenol-A (BPA)-free Klean Kanteen, re-usable sandwich wrap, and more make this a healthy alternative that is as much learning tool and practical place to keep a tasty lunch the kids'll love.
NOTE: The lunch box kit is sold out! Please see our other resources.
All proceeds go toward the cost of the kit. OEC has donated 100 of these kits to low-income elementary school children in the Portland area. Development of the kit was made possible by project sponsors Kellogg Foundation, Spirit Mountain Community Fund and New Season’s Market.
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Update: Check out this article in today's Sacramento Bee: "This is essential for us to begin to really start looking at toxics in products," [Department of Toxic Substances Control] director Maureen Gorsen said. "Right now everything we look at, and have been looking at, are emissions, wastes and discharges."
For example, Gorsen said: "We have lunchboxes that contain lead. When you throw them out, we can treat them as hazardous waste. But a kid could eat out of it every day … and there's not much we can do about it right now." [emphasis mine]
Wow.
