To think "fuck off Eco lunch box"?

[VivaLeBeaver]

I mean the standard lunch box food police is bad enough. Not allowed xyz in pack up.

But for the next two weeks we have to have no packaging waste in the lunch box either. So nothing in individual wrappers, sandwich bags, etc. Ater the two weeks experiment is up apparently it's fine to using as many cheap plastic bags, bits of cling film as you can cram in the box.

Do the school really thing I'm going to bung sandwiches, cucumber, pepper strips, satay and illegal cake in one Tupperware box with no method of wrapping them?

Dd came home today with no empty sandwich bags which is unusual. Apparently the kids with rubbish at the end of lunch have to put their rubbish in a big bag so at the end of the trial they can see how much they're damaging the world.

Oh Pesto I know you're just trying to illustrate how delightfully simple it is but I'm laughing at visions of a freezer pack resembling a bouncer gaurding against food poisoning.

We gather it's not rocket science, it's deliciously lakeland, but if you don't use these things buying them to be 'green' for a week defeats the point doesn't it?

Acekicker We have 4 through no fault of our own! We went for a McD's last night, DS had a happy meal and got a box. There was a family next to us who didn't want them and offered them to DS who was naturally delighted at his newly aquired boxes.

DH shall be getting his lunch in one as well now - huzzah!

I guess so takingiteasy, but as I have 3 kids (with number 4 on the way), over a decade of packed lunches to come and have always done them this way they seemed like a sound investment to me. It never occurred to me to use disposable wrapping. Shoving things in pots is as easy as shoving them in bags/foil/clingfilm and over time a lot cheaper. I bought my pots from Tesco .

I know its not rocket science. I do get how its done, I just don't want to do it. Not when dd has about 10 more weeks of school left. Like I said earlier a roll of 100 sandwich bags is 21p, I use 2 a day. So the roll will last me now till she finishes school.

So 21p versus the cost of small plastic boxes.

I am so tempted to go to McDonalds for Happy Meals tomorrow.

Can I just ask viva is it just the schools green initiative that you don't want to participate in or are you not bothered about being green in general?

It is all about cost?

We steal extra bags from the fruit and veg section of Tescos then use and re-use. Free and recycling

You can reuse clingfilm if you wash it and hang it up to dry. I cba with this as I hate clingfilm but my mum does it.

The school is fucking stupid to keep all the waste so you don't get your bags back.

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but if you can buy 100 for 21p which presumably are smaller and better suited to sandwiches, why would you steal the larger ones meant for fruit and veg?

UANBU! Schools should p off with their stupid instructions about how us parents should bring up our kids, etc.

Because DH is a tight git.

It is whatever government/LA incentive is going on at the moment I would imagine. I'm on maternitiy leave at the moment so I'm out of the loop as slighty. Are they going for healthy school award at the moment?

As an anecdote - a previous headteacher once photocopied a memo for everyone, complaining about the amount of photocopying everyone was doing and how we were wasting paper...

I left that school.

Eek - maternity. My spelling is appalling tonight!

As is my grammar. As slightly? What on earth does that mean?!

Am I green in other areas - not overly?

I recycle rubbish most of the time as we're on fortnightly collections so can't fit everything in the rubbish bin. Otherwise it would probably all go in the normal bin.

I grow my own veg, have my own chickens but thats because I enjoy doing it.

Can foil be recycled? If so, I'd wrap all the food in foil with a great big CAN BE RECYCLED, PLEASE RETURN sign on it.

Viva... I know you are in my locality. Have you seen the massive signs on the showground... Eco School event? Go and challenge them!

Added advantage that you can buy whacking great bags of supermarket own brand crisps, tortilla chips, dried fruit etc, & decant small quantities into little pots - much cheaper, less piggish & less wasteful than bunging a whole packet of crisps in each lunch.

What I don't understand about all these pre-packaged things is how expensive they all are. You can save so much money by buying a few small pots and then large bags of the foods rather than the 'lunch box' size bags and just put enough for one meal in.

For me it's about economics and not having all the waste of that packaging.

PeanutButterChocolate linked to drinks bottles - you can get the same from One Green Bottle in the UK. My DS's have been used daily for the last two years and although they're rather dented and wobble a bit now, they still hold water and are still going strong - you wouldn't get that from a plastic bottle after two years. And how many tetra packs of juice would you have bought for the same price?

The same with the Lock and Lock divided lunch boxes. Or the Sistema lunch box which I think I actually prefer but haven't got. The Sistema one has a good amount of compartments, should fit in most insulated lunch boxes and will keep it all fresh.

don't do it...what they going to do to you? FFS have they nothing better to do?

I speak as a greenie, however I wonder if this scenario might happen:
Eco-parent sends offspring to school with easily boxed food (say, a cheese sandwich (unwrapped) and an orange in a small, washable box - bit like what I take to work). Eco-parent gets thumbs up from the greenies but a slap from the healthy eating police for not providing a balanced enough lunch.
Parent prepares a healthy salad, pitta breads with hummus and a yoghurt, then realises they need four boxes and three sets of cutlery to store and eat these things. Diligently packs a small bag with all of the above.
Parent gets thumbs up from both the greenies and the healthy eating police, but gets a slap from the health and safety police for using metal cutlery (reusable but not safe) and overloading their child's schoolbag with heavy things.
Parent gives up.
Disclaimer: no school-age children here yet...

Please god don't let our school do this I might just combust.

Pigeon it's what you put in the compartments though.Mine have a sandwich in Savers foil,a pre wrapped piece of cheese,a Bear roll,a packet of Bread Bites, a couple of Frubes,an Innocent fruit water carton and a piece of fruit.

Sorry I have 3 kids and on the days I work I aint cutting cheese,making up drinks and compiling boxes of dried fruit for anybody.

It's snatch and garb from the lunch box cupboard in the Heffley household.

festivalwidow Exactly!

30 tupperware boxes? Decanting yoghurt late at night? I sometimes moan about the cost of my children's school dinners, never again. They are absolutely hassle-free and can be bought online.

I put everything in Klippasafe boxes, the number and size used depends on what they having in their lunch that day.
And I also put in a frezzer ice pack to keep it all cold- am I the only one who does that?

I'm with bubbles