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Guest Picks: Creative Ways to Pack School Lunches
These ingenious storage and styling solutions make any meal away from home a fun — and neat — affair
With her down-to-earth approach to food, and a dash or two of snark, Liza enjoys eating, reading, cooking, dining and writing on a daily basis. By day, she's an insurance professional, by night she gracefully (or not sometimes) barrels through life keeping up with her blog (a)Musing Foodie, other freelance writing jobs, non-profit work, Twitter and Facebook, her kids, her husband, and whatever else happens to fill her plate. Read her blog here: http://www.aMusingFoodie.com
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The school year begins in a little over a week for my 7-year-old, and the age-old question begins again: "Am I a packer or a buyer?" She really does love to bring a packed lunch, and I like to make the meal fun for her when I can. There are loads of cool containers, organizers and gadgets out there these days to help me do so. Here are a few of my favorites (for her and for me)! — Liza from (a)Musing Foodie
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Keep the wet and dry ingredients cold and separate until you're ready to eat them. This sandwich box is genius.
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Want bento ideas from an expert? Look no further.
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| The Rover Plus is perfect for compartment-style eating in a school (or work) lunch. |
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Keep things warm until lunchtime with a thermos.
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I love a container that serves double duty. These are the perfect little containers to send to school with delicates like grapes, but they're also a great size for storing little bits of leftovers or dips at home.
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I love that this lunch bag is freezable.
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Feeling at a loss for creative ways to spruce up your kid's lunch? Sometimes a little help is in order.
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| Discreet and ecofriendly, these no-frills containers are the best. |
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Lunch bags are just as fashionable as ever these days. Gone are the days of paper sacks.
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This messenger-style lunch bag has a super cute design.
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Bento boxes can be as simple as serving up a meal in small little compartments. This is a wonderful to-go container that's perfect for a backpack.
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These clever, reusable snack bags are big enough to hold a sandwich!
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This container is equipped to make a perfect home for two halves of a PB&J, cheese and crackers, or any other solid combination you can think of.
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Use this reusable container for everything from raisins to nuts. It's great to throw in your purse for on-the-go snacking too.
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| This can be one big bowl or two smaller compartments. Plus, I love that the fork comes with it! |
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This is the perfect mix-and-match set: It comes with dual-side containers, one big container and dipper cups.
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Buy a few of these dippers just in case little hands lose them — not that that would ever happen.
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Sandwiches are always more fun when they're cut into dolphins, or butterflies!
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This is the whole kit, including drink container, napkins and sandwich bag.
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Here's the classic construction worker lunch box kit. I love it!
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Readers said it was a favorite, so I had to add a Laptop Lunches Bento lunch kit! I'm loving all the input!
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Ideabook updated on Aug. 29, 2012.
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I like the dipping cups for salad dressing, although you can also reuse the ones you get from carryout.