This post was sponsored by Rubbermaid through their partnership with POPSUGAR. While I was compensated by POPSUGAR to write a post about LunchBlox, all opinions are my own.
With three kids and a husband, I pack a lot of lunches during the school year. I also go through a lot of sandwich bags. Recently, I got to try the LunchBlox from Rubbermaid, and I have to say I love it! I can’t wait to start using it for school lunches with my two youngest kids.
It has smaller compartments and bigger compartments, so I don’t need any sandwich bags at all. Not only that, it has a convenient ice pack that attaches directly to it to keep things cold.
One of my favorite features is that it stays together. The little indentations have lips that easily hold compartments together. You can even turn it upside down and shake, and it still stays together!
When I pack school lunches, I keep it to mainly protein, fruits, and veggies. We tend to stay away from things like chips or cookies. I like to pack lunches that I know they will eat, and it will keep them feeling full until the end of the school day.
Here are some of my favorite tips for making school lunch packing easy:
1. If your kids aren’t into sandwiches, try wrapping up turkey or ham in cheese slices. My kids do like sandwiches, but I enjoy giving them a variety at lunch. Sometimes I send turkey and cheese roll ups or fun cheese shapes and crackers just to give them a change.
2. Cupcake liners are perfect for separating foods. This works great when you have a picky eater who doesn’t like it when foods touch.
3. Using a lunch box with divided compartments like the LunchBlox cuts down on packaging (like sandwich bags!) and helps you remember all parts of the lunch.
4. Make your own prepackaged foods like little cups of ranch or hummus. Prepackaged food can really add up at the grocery store, so I like to make my own. I make up several ahead of time to last the whole week. It’s convenient and saves me money, too!
5. If your kids love something like ranch, hummus, or peanut butter, just send a few easy foods for dipping.
Click HERE to visit Rubbermaid LunchBlox for more ideas!
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These are so practical and perfect! I love the compartment system and the way they all lock together! Need to grab some for back to school….I can hardly believe we’re halfway through Summer!!!!!
We have a Set of these and really like to use them all the time.
Love how you did the broccoli and dip!
My son loves lunch boxes. I always try to make it fun for him because he’s such a picky eater. Think he’d love this especially with the color variety!
I have those. Containers! They are awesome! I want to get the lunch box that actually goes with them this year for my son for school!
I have these! They are perfect for my son’s lunch!
I’m a part time nanny, so I really appreciate this post because packing lunch for kids can be really hard sometimes! I love the broccoli and dip idea.
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These look great. I love how they don’t come apart. Great tips.
We love these for packing school lunches! So easy!
I need these for this year. my son is so picky I get tired of fixing pb&j on a constant but these are cute. I might can bribe him this year to eat more
Those cute little boxes make lunch so fun! My kids love opening them up!
Oh wow, the food looks delicious and I’m sure any kid would love to eat that. The lunchboxes are really gorgeous and I love that they are in a variety of colors. I will check these new products form Rubbermaid.
I love how it snaps together. I definitely want to get this for my kids before school starts back up!
I have an older version of these lunch boxes by Rubbermaid. I think I have like 4 or something, then I got 4 more (to review) and I gave them to my Mom. We both really love them mainly because of the snapping all together sort of deal. I use them constantly with leftovers and stuff. The small ones are way more convenient than I would’ve thought they’d be.
I love these containers, the look awesome (for the adults lunches too)! I am gluten free so I love the idea of the meat and cheese wraps! This is something I may have to start packing myself for lunch! Thanks for sharing!
These containers are so neat looking! My kids normally pack a lunch and it can be hard to think of new creative ideas for lunches. These are great tips, I can’t believe it’s back to school time already!
These are awesome! When I am not feeling lazy and want to take lunch to work, it’s usually salad. I hate, however for my salad and dressing to be together till right before I’m going to eat, these would be perfect. I could just snap the dressing t the salad.
Those lunch blox are absolutely amazing. I am going to need to check them out! I can’t wait for all the back to school gear in stores from these items to school supplies and more. I love stocking up this time of year!
I have three and they are great for having healthy lunches. You can separate your goodies and have small lunches throughout the day.
I actually bought these for my husband a little while back. I am a huge fan. He is the type of person that wants a large variety of things to eat but he doesn’t like them touching on the plate. I figured it would satisfy his OCD-ness while he is eating at work too! lol
Having compartments in a lunch is really helpful especially since we always have more than one viand in every meal. Setting divisions to keep the veggies apart from rice or fruits is great. Do these lunch boxes also have antileaks for soups or other liquids?
Those containers are awesome!! I have purposed in my mind to do better with packing lucnhes this year. I have nearly no creativity when it comes to that but thank goodness for posts like these my kiddies may have a chance 😀