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Wednesday, November 2. 2011Grist's "Ask Umbra" Recommends reuseit
We're very honored to have been recommended in "Ask Umbra" as a resource for alternatives to plastic zip-lock bags! We pride ourselves in offering only the best high-quality reusables to help you ditch the disposable habit. Take a look at the full article here and find out whether or not it's safe to reuse plastic baggies. Check out our Snack & Sandwich bags and discover more neat products with our Gifts for Cooks!Friday, August 19. 2011Tuesday, August 16. 2011Green Trash NinjaDid you know that the typical American family generates 4,320 pieces of trash annually during lunchtime? At reuseit we aim to educate people about how easy it is to shrink that number simply by following our 5 Steps to a Waste-Free Lunch, and our vendor-partners ECOlunchboxes hope to do the same through their Green Trash Ninja app. Check out this video to find out more: Want to help bring Green Trash Ninja to a smart phone near you? Contribute to the project here. Here are some other ways you can help:
1. Tweet about it! We’re http://twitter.com/#!/ecolunchboxes. Here are some sample tweets that you can copy and paste (or change to make your own or whatever) to make it extra quick and easy for you:
2. Post on Facebook! We are http://www.facebook.com/ecolunchboxes Use messages we suggest here or make your own!
3. Post a badge on
your blog or your website telling the world that you’re supporting our eco
educational project! Link the badges back to this page at http://www.indiegogo.com/Green-Trash-Ninja-Crowd-Fundraising-for-Eco-Game-App so more people can learn all about it! To download a badge, go to: http://www.ecolunchboxes.com/lunchgame/
Wednesday, August 10. 2011Staff Pick: Innate MC Snap Food Container + A Giveaway-Natalie, PR & Community Manager
I decided to give the Innate’s MC Snap a trial run before school starts to see how my son liked it. I like that it’s all unpainted stainless steel so I don’t have to worry about it getting chipped or scratched and it’s free of BPA, phthalates and lead. It’s also dishwasher safe – a major bonus in my book – and it features a gasket to keep the food inside fresh. Teno had no troubles opening and closing the spring snaps on the side and there was plenty of room for his pb & j along with a few pieces of fruit or cut veggies inside. It’s nice and slim, so it will fit nicely in his new lunch bag along with an ice pack, reusable snack bag and a water bottle.I'm also looking forward to using the MC Snap to pack healthy snacks for when we go camping. The MC Snap definitely gets my personal seal of approval along with that of reuseit.com. I like it so much, in fact, I’d like to give a few away to our readers.
1. Use the share button on the product page to share the Innate MC Snap with your friends & family
For more info about waste-free lunches check out our 5-step how-to! Good luck, everyone! The contest is over - thanks to everyone who entered! Our winning entries as selected by Random.org were: 154 - Christopher Sorel We've contacted those of you who left your email address in your entry. Please contact service@reuseit.com if you have not heard from us regarding your shipping address.
Tuesday, August 9. 2011Protect Your Child From PVC This School Year
Luckily, there are numerous high-quality products available designed with your health in mind, and reuseit is proud to carry a wide array to help you avoid toxic chemicals. We're thrilled to have been featured in the Center for Health, Environment and Justice's 2011 "Back to School Guide to PVC-free School Supplies," so we're passing the info on to you. Check out our recycled cotton lunch bags, recycled PET thermal lunch bags (above), Built NY lunch bags and Mimi the Sardine cloth lunch bags, which are all PVC-free and lead-free.
Thursday, August 4. 2011Help Us Donate Lunch Gear to Those in Need
Last year, as many of us in the office were signing our kids up for their first year of school, we noticed that our school supply lists included optional donations of items like back packs, lunch bags and water bottles for children in need.
We encourage our customers to also consider purchasing an extra lunch bag, reusable water bottle or other back-to-school essential for a child in need. Additionally, for the second year in a row, we're donating $500 worth of lunch gear to a school chosen by you! To nominate a school, leave a comment on this blog post, or visit our Facebook page and tell us about a school that could benefit from a $500 lunch gear donation. (Be sure that we can contact you via email from your comment or Facebook post in case your nominated school wins!) We'll consider your suggestions and choose a winning school or class at the end of August. Giving back is part of what we do - to date, we've donated over $200,000 to like-minded non-profits. Click here to read about our donation to last year's winner. Looking for more information on waste-free lunches and how to help your school go green? Check out these resources:
Wednesday, August 3. 2011Furoshiki ECOlunchwrap Winner Announced!
Among the most unusual entries that caught our imagination were: Friday, July 29. 2011Healthy, Waste-free Lunch Ideas From Our CustomersRecently we asked our Facebook fans to send us their favorite ideas for healthy, flavorful, waste-free lunches. The responses were too good not to share! Here are two fun, healthy lunch ideas from Alexi Sherrill. Be sure to also check out 5 Steps to a Waste-free Lunch here!  - Veggie Sandwich Deluxe - In a reuseit sandwich bag: Veggie sandwich (avocado, cucumber, and bell pepper) with roasted red pepper spread on whole grain bread
In a Lunchbots container: watermelon chunks, Annie's Whole Wheat Bunnies & almonds, yellow bell pepper slices
In a reuseit snack bag: homemade, maple syrup sweetened, thumbprint cookie with apricot fruit spread Also pictured: reuseit recycled cotton lunch bag, People Towels - Tasty Tiffin -
In lower tier: brown rice with veggies, soy sauce, and rice vinegar (To-go Ware stainless steel tiffin) In top tier: Chickpea "Ranch" dip, carrot and cucumber slices, and homemade gingerbread muffin
Water w/a squeeze of lemon (in a Lifefactory glass water bottle, not pictured) Also pictured: People Towels Thursday, July 7. 2011Take the challenge! Enter to win a Furoshiki ECOlunchwrap
We’ve teamed up with ECOlunchboxes to offer a fun giveaway this month exclusively for the reuseit community! We recently added this California company's stainless steel lunchbox set, the ECOlunchbox Oval which comes with a nifty no-leak yogurt cup. The giveaway ECOlunchboxes is offering pairs beautifully with this lunchbox. The Furoshiki ECOlunchwrap is designed to twist and knot into a lunch bag and carry your ECOlunchbox and waste-free lunch accessories! Also very cool, the textiles are sourced fair trade from the artisans who are carrying down traditions more than 1,000 years old. To learn more about these amazing craftsmen, click here. There are several ways to enter: First, join our ECOlunchboxes-reuseit challenge and tell us in EXACTLY 7 words what your favorite healthy lunch is. For additional entries, use the links on the challenge page to tweet about your entry & to post it to your Facebook page! For even more entries, complete the
items below and comment on this post for each one. 1) On EcoLunchbox’s Facebook page, tag yourself in a photo of the Furoshiki ECOlunchwrap we’re giving away. 2) Follow ECOlunchboxes on Twitter. 3) Follow reuseit on Twitter. 4) Like ECOlunchboxes on Facebook 5) Like reuseit.com on Facebook 6) Buy an ECOlunchbox on reuseit.com. A winner will be chosen randomly on July 31st, 2011 so enter today! Thursday, July 7. 2011reuseit on Mother Nature Network
We're thrilled to have been featured in Mother Nature Network's "16 Simple Ways to Reduce Plastic Waste," which is why we're passing the info on to you. Find out why most chewing gum contains plastic, and why you should avoid the frozen foods section altogether. Check out our featured lunch accessories like reusable snack bags or the Wrap-N-Mat, and read the full article here. Friday, May 27. 2011DIY Project: Customize your reusables in 3 easy stepsWe recently heard from a customer looking to spruce up our Everything Cloth to pack in her child's waste-free lunch. The hemp & organic cotton cloths themselves are the perfect replacement for paper napkins, facial tissue, paper towels, wet naps and more - and because they're made from high-quality natural fibers they're perfect for DIY projects like embroidery, fabric painting, or, as we'll show you here - iron-on transfers. Check out out Community Manager Natalie's instructions for quick and easy customized napkins:
- transfer paper for an Inkjet printer (found online or at your local craft store) - artwork to transfer - a printer - an iron Instructions: 1. Choose your artwork. Let your child use a drawing application on your computer to create custom art, or find free clip art online. You can also purchase fun artwork on Etsy, as I did for the veggie transfers pictured at the end of this post. My son is obsessed with Super Mario Bros. so I found some free clip art online and saved it on my desktop for his napkins. 2. Print your transfer. Once you've saved your artwork, pull it together onto one document in a program like Photoshop or Illustrator. Microsoft Word will even work in a pinch. Resize the artwork however you wish (I put four images on each of my son's napkins, and two images on each of my veggie napkins.) You'll need to reverse the image before you can print it, because it will transfer backwards. You can either flip individual images in the application you're using, or you might be able to flip your entire document in your printer settings. Follow the instructions on the transfer paper package for using the paper with your printer. 3. Iron your transfer on. When your transfer sheet has printed, cut the Peel the paper back slowly - if the image doesn't look like it's transferring, carefully replace the paper and iron for a few more seconds. Tips: - Custom napkins make great gifts - adorn them with your friend's favorite song lyrics, initials, images of their favorite vacation spot... anything that makes it personal and special.- Google image search allows you to easily find free clip art online. - If you plan on transferring images onto darker colors, use transfer paper for dark fabrics to avoid a white ring around your images. - This method works for lots of items - try customizing your lunch bag or reusable tote! Do you have a great DIY project that makes reusables even more fun? Send it to us at service@reuseit.com!
Friday, May 20. 2011Fiesta Fare Waste-free LunchRecently we asked our Facebook fans to send us their favorite ideas for healthy, flavorful, waste-free lunches. The responses were too good not to share! Here's a fun, festive lunch idea from Lorelei Boller-Tian. Check our more of her recipes at Bitten and Written, and our 5 Steps to a Waste-free Lunch here.
This delicious Mexican-inspired meal makes fantastic use of the Bento Box Set with Carrying Case 2.0 by Laptop Lunches. This wonderful all-in-one kit includes everything needed to pack a waste-free lunch. The separate compartments provide endless possibilities for parents and kids to put together healthy and creative combinations. For this meal, I’ve included a flavorful black bean and corn salad that really packs a nutritional punch. Chock full of protein, fiber, and vitamins A and C, this salad is fun for kids to scoop up with their favorite tortilla chips. Juicy pineapple and mango with fresh mint add an appealing splash of color. For dessert, try this simplified version of arroz con leche, a traditional Spanish/Latin American treat. Just top store-bought rice pudding with a sprinkle of cinnamon, golden raisins, and roasted pepitas. (Pepitas should be added just before eating to keep then nice and crunchy. The tiny sauce container included in this Laptop Lunch set works perfectly for this.)
Have a great waste-free lunch recipe to share? Email us at service@reuseit.com! Thursday, August 5. 2010Tuesday, March 2. 2010Wednesday, August 26. 2009 |
When it comes to green living tips and all things sustainable, the popular 
I’m sending my son Teno off to school for the first time in just a few weeks and along with my 10,000 other worries, I was really worried about his lunch! You’d think with all the smart reusable lunch items we carry here at 
To enter the giveaway, complete one, some or all of the following actions and leave a separate comment for each one you complete. Make sure we can contact you via email in case you win! We’ll choose 6 winners on August 19. 
Chemicals permeate our lives. They are in our homes, schools, backyards, even our child's school supplies. But did you know PVC, one of the most widely used hazardous plastics in the world, is loaded with carcinogens and 
It really got us talking - with so many affordable waste-free lunch items in our store, why not pick up an extra lunch bag or set of utensils for our kids' classmates? So we did! And we're doing the same this year. 
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Reuseit-ECOlunchbox summer challenge to “Tell us your favorite healthy lunch in EXACTLY 7 WORDS.” A whopping 188 entries were recorded!
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There are numerous ways to reduce your dependence on plastic - especially when it comes to packing a greener lunch. From plastic straws, to cutlery, baggies, beverages containers and - well, you get the idea - single-use products seem to be everywhere. If you or your child's lunchbox is full of disposables, the solution is within reach. With back-to-school around the corner, now is the perfect time to get prepared!
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images out. Cut closely around each image so there isn't too much blank space around it. I ironed my napkins first to make sure there were no wrinkles. Then follow the instructions on the transfer paper package for ironing the image on. Most of them will tell you to use high heat, and to press hard on the paper with your iron for about 30 seconds. 
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