One of the best ways to save money is to pack your lunch, instead of eating out. Eating lunch out when your working can cost $5 and up a day! And cafeteria lunches for kids are getting expensive too!
These days it’s easy to pack lunches. There are insulated lunches to keep things cold, nifty containers to keep sandwiches from getting squashed, and (not the most frugal option) lunchbox sized foods to make packing lunches easy!
Jenn and I will be sharing more about packing lunches on Frugal Coast2Coast tonight at 8:30 EST/5:30 PST. Be sure to tune in! And if you can’t catch the show tonight, you can also listen to the archive on Blog Talk Radio or download it from iTunes.
Lunchbox Builder
To get kids (and their parents!) excited about packing lunches this school year, Motts, Smuckers, and Pepperidge Farms have launched the Lunchbox Builder, a fun tool, where you can design your own lunchbox, add it to the lunchbox gallery, and rate other people’s lunchboxes.
An added bonus to the site is that you can download coupons for Mott’s Applesauce, Smuckers Uncrustables, and Pepperidge Farms Goldfish. As a super-bonus, if your lunchbox is one of the highest rated lunchboxes, you will win a Lunchbox Care Package (like the one I’m giving away) directly from the Lunchbox Builder site. (Click on the terms of use on the site for more information).
I’ll admit to never having tried Smuckers Uncrustables, but Motts Applesauce have been a staple in my kids’ lunchboxes for years, and Pepperidge Farms Goldfish are a favorite afterschool snack.
The Giveaway
As part of the Motts, Smuckers, and Pepperidge Farms Lunchbox campaign, they sent me a lunchbox care package to try, and they’re letting me give one away to a fortunate reader!
Let me tell you, this prize package is awesome! It’s worth approximately $150, and it includes:
- An iPod Shuffle
- An insulated lunchbox
- Sharpie pens in multiple colors
- Colored Pencils
- A Smuckers Uncrustables Container
- An Optical Mouse
- A Smuckers Belt Pack
- A Motts Reusable Shopping Bag
- A Smuckers Strawberry
- Pencils
- Coupons
- A Walmart Gift Card
- A Pedometer
In addition, the winner will be receiving 5 Labels for Education, worth 10,000 points each, which can be used by your child’s school!
How to Enter
To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me what you like to pack in your child’s lunch.
For an extra entry, subscribe to the Frugal Coast2Coast Newsletter on the Frugal Coast2Coast website. Right now it’s just an email reminder of our show, but we’re planning to expand it in the near future. It will include content not available here or on Frugal Upstate. And it might include giveaways from time to time, too! Your email address will not be used for anything else, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
If you subscribe to the newsletter, make sure you use the same email address you use when you leave a comment, so I can validate your extra entry. And in your comment, let me know you subscribed, so I know you have an extra entry.
I will close comments and select a winner using a random number generator at noon PST on August 28, 2009.
The Other Legal Stuff
Contest is open to residents of the United States. Members of my family are not eligible to win. I will notify the winner by email, and the winner will have three days to contact me with a mailing address, or I will draw another winner.
The winner’s name and address will be passed along to the sponsor, and the sponsor will ship the prize.
So, what do you pack in your child’s lunch? Or your own lunch, if you don’t pack a lunch for your child. Or if you don’t pack a lunch, just tell me what you like to eat for lunch!
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I work a 10 hour night shift so I try to pack an assortment of healthy foods so I’m not tempted to eat out of the vending machine. Last night it was string cheese, almonds, crackers, carrots, chicken and grapes. I also frequently pack left-overs, applesauce, yogurt and trail mix.
I always pack some sort of vegetable and fruit. I love to have carrots and edemame. They are easy to pack. I also like to have an orange or a banana. They are easy too!
I also subscribed to your newsletter.
My girls get a sandwich, pickle, fruit, cheese and some sort of sweet. The drink water with their lunches.
For lunches, the simpler the better, I have actually used the uncrustables, if you take them frozen they keep till lunchtime. It makes a great quick lunch when you didnt have time to make it yourself. We also use turkey on whole grain bread, apple sauce, or pudding snack, fruits, carrot sticks, and water pods which I also freeze, it keeps the lunch cold, and usually defrosts by lunchtime.
It depends on the day but I like a sandwich and small container of apple sauce or cut up vegetables with ranch.
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