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All the Cool, Green Kids have a Kids Konserve Lunch Bag

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kids konserve waste free lunch bag, butterfly style

Check out the Kids Konserve lunch bag giveaway below!

Who doesn’t  want to be the cool kid at school?  Reducing classroom waste is the new black.  So every kid will want a   Kids Konserve waste free lunch bag, which will significantly reduce your child’s school waste of aluminum tin foil, plastic baggies, paper bags, and juice boxes.   How much? Easily, on average, 67 lbs worth! Will the other kids be green with envy? Absolutely.

Founders of Kids Konserve, waste free lunch bag

Founders, Chance Claxton and Lynn Julian, (pictured above at an NYC expo), are two moms on a mission, knowing first hand the amount of waste generated by their kids’ lunches.   In creating the Company, they wanted to empower children to make changes for the future.  What better way to do that, then by using one of their lunch bags to show them how they can impact the amount of waste generated at their schools?

Kids Konserve waste free lunch bag, style Caterpillar kit

So, what does a Kids Konserve lunch bag contain?

  • An organic cotton lunch sack in white or in a caterpillar or butterfly print
  • Stainless Steel beverage bottle
  • 2 stainless steel containers with lids, which is great for storing grapes, apples, pretzel, nuts, chips, or any assorted food you desire.
  • A food kozy, which is an easy fold-over sandwich wrap, with a Velcro fastener.  It is  made out of recycled, FDA approved, non-toxic, non-leaching, recyclable PE plastic. This product does not contain Bisphenol-A (BPA) and is Phthalate free.
  • An organic napkin
  • A recycled aluminum name tag

The signature white waste free lunch bag is priced at $40 and  the butterfly and caterpillar print lunch bag are priced at $42.   Additional items that can be purchased separately are:

  • Drawstring Bag (4 for $25.00)
  • Thermos, which is great for cold or warm food such as fruit salad or soups/pastas. Priced at $20.00
  • 2 large tier tiffins (5″ by 4″)  for hot and cold items.  ( A tiffin is a small metal container with a lid that stack and snap together with a carrying strap or latch mechanism.) Priced at $25.oo

Note, a large tiffin and thermos will not fit together side by side in the bag.  Order a small tiffin  and the thermos so that you can put the two products together in the lunch bag. Best of all, if you want to create your own lunch bag, all products can be ordered separately. Different size beverage bottles are available for the thirsty kids.  Where are the products made?  All Kids Konserve products  are made in Asia, are fair trade and with suppliers that the founders  have a long standing relationship with.

So, how do I care for my Kids Konserve products?  Ask no further. The care instructions are on a tab in the product description.

So how did I rate the Company’s products?  My first thought was how could you keep your sandwich cold with a cotton bag?  Christy, a spokesperson for  the Company, told me to fill it up the bottle, and  put it in the refrigerator and then use this bottle to keep the sandwich cold.  I tested to see how long the bottle stayed cold while sitting on my countertop.  It definitely stayed cold for a few hours.   In the summer, the Company will be offering an insulated bag.

I  further experimented with the bottle and  turned it upside down for a while to see if it would leak.  It did not leak at all, unlike some of my other stainless steel beverage bottles.

Kids Konserve containers as part of their waste free lunch bag

I then filled up the containers with water to see if they would leak.   They leaked but they really aren’t for soup or food that has liquid in  it.  I did have problems taking off the lids.  As a disclaimer, I have weak hands.  Christy told me that the lids do loosen up after a few washings in the dishwasher or bend them back and forth to make them more pliable.

Kids Konserve Food cozy

The food kozy easily fit the sandwich that I made. It takes two hands to close up the cozy.  My overall rating for lunch bag was very favorable. I also loved the environmental attributes and the attention paid to creating the website with its easy to follow information.

PAK

In addition to the lunch bag, the Company also sells  a Kids Konserve Party Pak, which is great for classroom parties.

“Imagine the mounds of landfill waste created by a classroom of 25 students having 4 holiday classroom parties and an average of 6 student birthday celebrations per school year. This would amount to upwards of 250 paper plates, cups and disposable cutlery in a single school year. Multiply this by an average school with 400 students and 16 classrooms and you arrive at an astonishing 4000 paper plates, cups, plastic forks, spoons and knives being tossed in to our ever growing landfills,” according to the Company.

The Pak consists  of 12 each of  7″ plates, 16oz tumblers, forks, knives, and spoons.  The products are made of 100% recycled #5  plastic from yogurt containers and are stored  in cotton drawstring bags.  (Remember when the PAK is  trashed, recycle them at your nearest Whole Food, Gimme 5 display.)  Christy further explained:

“I have gotten my son’s school to use them for classroom parties instead of signing up to bring paper goods. The kids love them and they have learned so much about not always going straight to the garbage with plates etc.. The plates, cups, and utensils are put in a box to be brought home (mom’s take turns sharing this job) for washing so it is ready for the next party. They have been a great hit for birthday parties, too!”

Don’t forget these Paks are great for  outdoor parties and picnics too! A set of 12 is priced at $35.00 and a set of 25 is priced at $55.00.

Even the fundraising options offered by the Company make it easy to go waste-free. See more information, here. There are two options. Either your school can receive 10% on all products purchased by school members or school members can receive a 10% discount for the products.  Either way, you will help to reduce waste with this feel good fundraiser.  

 What I love about the fundraiser is it is so easy.You can either have people send you the money and order at one time or the Kids Konserve people will list your school online for people to come at their leisure to buy products.  My school is doing “the online” concept for back to school.

In addition, the Company offers a bottle fundraiser to eliminate plastic bottles and juice boxes at your school.  All you need is a logo and a minimum order of 50 bottles.  See more information here.

My only wish for the Company is that they produce bags that are  for the tween and teenager crowd.  According to Christy, this is in development. 

Coming soon:

  • insulated bags
  • 25 oz beverage bottle
  • utensils
  • new patterns for the lunch bags

Kids Konserve waste free Lunch Kit

The folks at Kids Konserve have graciously donated the above signature lunch bag  to give away to one lucky Green Talk reader.   Here are the rules:

  • You must be over 18 and live in the US.
  • Leave me a comment here telling me about your favorite lunch  as a kid or adult.  If you don’t have one, just say so.
  • To double your chances consider joining my Feedburner email list or subscribe to my RSS feed. Both subscriptions are listed on the upper right hand column. Be sure to come back and leave a separate additional comment to tell me which one you joined. If you are already a member, just say so.
  • To triple  your chances of winning, twitter about this contest and come back and leave a separate additional comment of the url (weblink) of your twitter comment.
  • You must enter by Friday,  May 22, 2009  6 PM EST  to win. A winner will be chosen at random on Monday, May 25, 2009.   Good Luck everyone!

Let’s help Kids Konserve reduce waste, one lunch bag at a time!

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Comments

  1. 1

    My favorite lunch as a kid was chipped ham and american cheese sandwich with mayo, lays potato chips and a dill pickle. YUMMY!! Then I grew up and so much for the chipped ham.

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  6. 6

    Now my favorite lunch is a big salad. There’s a restaurant I love that makes this Southwestern Cobb that’s the yummiest thing ever.
    I don’t remember a favorite as a kid, but my LEAST favorite was bologna boats in the school cafeteria.

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  8. 8

    My favorite is honey baked ham with grey poupon mustard on rye. Dessert is chocolate with coconut.
    Thank you for giving so many of us a chance to win a very green way to become greener.

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  12. 12

    salami/swiss cheese on a fresh onion roll- yep my granny got me addicted- if there was not an onion roll wheat bread but yummy

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  19. 19

    I know this might be a cliche but my favorite lunch item as a kid was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. As a kid I ate them with gummy snacks, apples and milk. I still have PB&J cravings every so often, I prefer a slightly grown up version now though. I am just crazy about St. Dalfour fruit conserves and fresh peanut butter on honey whole wheat. I eat them with soymilk and papya. YUM! Of course, if I make one for myself I have to make one for one or all of my four nephews, as I am the live-in Auntie.
    Thanks for the green talk!

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  20. 20

    My favorite kid lunch was balogna and cheese on leftover dinner rolls with dried apples. Today I love hummus, avocado, bean sprouts and sea salt on wasa crisp bread. You can tell I take better care of myself now.

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  23. 23

    My favorite lunch as a kid was when I could take soup in a little thermos rather than the typical sandwich. Also loved when there was a granola bar in the bag. ~:)

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  25. 25

    My favorite lunch included a butter and grape jelly sandwich on white bread (oh, how my tastebuds have matured!) with potato chips and a granola bar. (Thanks for the give-away and great detailed review!)

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  27. 27

    My favorite lunch was speghetti and meatballs and chocolate milk.
    As an adult I barely get to eat “lunch” but I will sometimes go to my grandmas for dinner and eat her left overs. Everyone at work pretty much knows the only time I get a good lunch is if I’m having grandma’s left overs. You can smell the Delicious coming down the hallway

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  29. 29

    My favorite lunches were the ones my dad would make for me. He was always writing me cute notes and inventing new ways to pack my food. All of the other kids were envious of my lunches that my dad made!!

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  32. 32

    I can remember that my favorite school lunches when I was a little girl (40 years ago) were peanut butter and fluff sandwiches — affectionately called fluffernutters (I believe Marshmallow Fluff is a New England thing!) — and my mom’s homemade meatloaf sandwich . Along with a piece of fruit, of course!

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  36. 36

    I was really finicky about food when I was a little girl, and in fact I still am somewhat squeamish about trying new things. But there was one lunch from my mother that I was always guaranteed to eat: Arroz Con Pollo (Puerto Rican-style chicken and rice). I still love it to this day 🙂

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  39. 39

    My favorite lunch as a kid was soup in a thermos. If I bought lunch, it was definitly grilled cheese with tomato soup.

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  42. 42

    I don’t know that it was my favorite, but I lived off of bologna and miracle whip sandwiches on white bread all summer! I don’t even think they had cheese. It was quick and I was not obviously too worried about nutrition back then. As long as I got to the pool in time to tan for a few hours under a nice thick layer of baby oil! (Yikes)

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  43. 43

    My favorite lunch as a kid was PB&J. The PB had to be crunchy and the jelly had to be strawberry. Yummy!

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  45. 45

    Hm…my favorite kid lunch was definitely macaroni and cheese, but peanut butter and jelly came in a close second. 🙂

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  49. 49

    I love this concept and we have been searching for a incoming 1st grade gift for all new students. This just may fit the bag!! I’ve ordered one for my youngest daughter for camp this summer.

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  52. 52

    As a kid, I never really had a favorite lunch (unless you could say NOT canned green peas in the cafeteria), but over the years I have come to love chicken soup of just about any stripe. And crackers with thin slices of apple.

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  56. 57

    The lunch I had as a kid was NEVER as important as the SHAUN CASSIDY LUNCHBOX it was in!!!!!!!!! It was the metal kind, complete with matching thermos. Aaahhhhhh…..*dreamy nostalgic sigh* The original green lunchbox!!!

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  58. 59

    My favorite lunch as a child was a bologna sandwich with american cheese, miracle whip and doritos. The doritos added a great crunch to the sandwich. Yummy. Not healthy but incredibly tasty.

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  62. 63

    I don’t recall my favorite lunch, so I will share my daughter’s favorite, which we call Sand and Shells. It’s cracked wheat with pasta. She’s utterly nuts for it. My stubborn girl pretty much will not eat sandwiches.

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  63. 64

    When I was a kid I loved PBJ and potato chip sandwiches. Now that my tastes are a bit more refined, I think, I love a prime rib sandwich or a really good salad.

    Thank you for having such a cool giveaway. My niece is starting first grade in a few months.

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  66. 67

    I love this product! My son starts school this year and this is exactly the kind of thing I have been looking for.

    I always love a good salad for lunch. I bring the dressing and things like croutons in separate containers and add them on when it’s time to eat.

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  68. 69

    I love our Kids Konserve bag and could use another. As a kid I had the plastic blue Smurf box and then a Strawberry Shortcake one.

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  70. 71

    My favorite lunch: Turkey & Cheddar on White Bread with Lettuce, Tomato, Dill Pickles, Mayo & Mustard, Cool Ranch Doritos, my mom’s homemade chocolate chip cookies, an Orange and a Capri-Sun. Now I’m hungry!

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  71. 72

    I loved PBJ as a kid with grape jelly. Now that I’m older and more sophisticated, I like a PBJ with currant jelly.

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  78. 79

    I like egg salad sandwiches but as a kid yea you cant take that to school unless you wanna be teased

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  83. 84

    My favorite childhood lunch was tuna sandwich. My mother made it with mayo, salt, black pepper and a splash of lemon juice. So good! I actually still like it to this day.
    With a side of seedless grapes and a bag of chips. Washing it down with homemade lemonade. Mmmm..

    I HOPE TO WIN A LUNCH BAG FOR MY 3 yr OLD THATIS STARTING PRESCHOOL THIS FALL. THANKS!! 🙂

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  84. 85

    my favorite lunch as a child was chips & cheese! my mom would melt colby cheese on tortilla chips! i still love it today!!

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  87. 88

    My fav lunch as a kid was PB & J. I still like PB & J but would prefer something else now…hard to pick a favorite lunch now, but I’d have to say a meatball sub or sushi would be top picks.

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  88. 89

    I didn’t have a favorite lunch as a kid- it was always sandwich fruit and snack- nothing stands out.
    For my younger girls I learned about bento and try to make their lunches more special.
    Great giveaway, I love how everyone is trying to reduce their waste & impact.

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  92. 93

    My favorite lunch as a child was an egg salad sandwich. This is still my favorite. Now I like it packed into a toasted, whole wheat pita. Yum! I like it with bread & butter pickles & carrotts. I already use many recycled products & totally dig the lunch kit. I especially like the stainless containers. . . we really need to reduce the usage of plastics.. I usually use glass containers for my lunch when I can. . .however glass is not a good choice for children’s lunch & I don’t want to pack things in plastic. THanks for coming up with an adorable, green alternative. Please enter me in the sweepstakes- i’d love to try out your product! Thanks!

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  95. 96

    Wow, how cool is that? I am a high school teacher, and I’m tired of brown-bagging it! I’d totally sport this at the lunch table!

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  99. 100

    I loved fluffer nutter sandwiches! – if you dont know what that is – I hear a lot of people don’t – it is peanut butter and marshmellow fluff between two pieces of wonder bread.

    Hey don’t say gross till you tired it – it is yummy!!!!

    Now I eat a salad everyday for lunch

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  101. 102

    I always loved the oh so common peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But… oddly, I never liked jelly as a kid, I think it was a texture thing, so I would just eat peanut butter sandwiches. Not the normal amount of peanut butter though, I had to have tons of it. Mmmmm… I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. However, I now love jelly and can’t eat just a plain peanut butter sandwich. Funny though, I’ve recently been reminded by my son of my favorite lunchbag snack, because he tells me that he doesn’t want jelly, just lots and lots of peanut butter! And of course I couldn\’t have a peanut butter sandwich without an ice cold glass of milk. :0)

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  103. 104

    I don’t remember what I ate in my lunches as a child but I do know that I love making my daughter a healthy lunch everyday for school.

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  104. 105

    This might sound crazy but my favorite lunch when I was a kid was the cafeteria pizza and a carton of milk.

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  107. 108

    I ate a peanut butter sandwich every day from kindergarten to sixth grade, usually with a granny smith apple, a granola bar and a frozen jiuce box. Still sounds pretty good to me.

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  108. 109

    I always loved a good PB & banana sandwich. My mom made the best ones out of anyone in my family. Not sure if she did something extra special, or if was just that mom’s special touch!

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  109. 110

    My favorite lunch now is a pepper turkey sandwich on whole wheat toasted bread with a slice of pepper jack cheese on it. I could eat that every single day.

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  114. 115

    My favorite lunch as a kid was peanut butter, banana and marshmellow fluff sandwiches on white bread with carrot sticks and potato chips. Oh, how I wish I could eat that now without it going straight to my hips!

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  119. 120

    I just want to commend you for creating a product that is helpful to everyone, especially our little ones. I have become newly aware of how harmful the food and products in our school cafeteries are to our kids. Products period! Are loaded with toxins. I’m an infuriated mother! I want better for my kids. I think I will pass this along to my daughter’s school PTA.

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  120. 121

    My favorite lunch as a child was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, chips, and Hostess cupcakes.

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  122. 123

    My favorite lunch as a child was grilled cheese & tomato soup! Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!

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  125. 126

    My favorite lunch was always peanut butter and jelly (with extra peanut butter)! It is simple, but soo tasty!

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  129. 130

    i never wind up with all my food becuse it always feal out of my paper lunch bags
    so i would love to get one my daughter
    really needs this plz pick me

    ;(

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  132. 133

    My favorite lunch as a kid was ham and Swiss on a roll with mayo, a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos and a Coke. Not healthy at all, but boy, did I love it!

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