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How To Pack A Waste-Free Lunch

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Chances are that at least some of the time you bring your own bagged lunch to work or to school. Sure, there are days when you go out for a nice meal with co-workers or pay for the school lunch on pizza day, but when I think back to my school days I fondly remember those brown paper bags. Washable plates and bowls. Cloth napkins.

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Don’t Recycle, Reuse

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Recycling is great for the environment and we should all be doing it (in spite of my title), but reusing is even better. When you can reuse or re-purpose an item, you are not only saving it from the landfills, but you are also saving the expense and energy which would have been expended when you recycle. Go Green Money Tips'

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Saving Money by Taking Your Own Lunches to Work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you work out how much you’re spending on work lunches in the average work week, you might be surprised to know just how much money is being frittered away. You can save money by taking your own lunches to work and depending on what you’ve previously been grabbing in your lunch break, it might be a lot healthier too.

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Giveaway: Kids Konserve Reusable Lunch Sack Filled With Coupons

Couponing 101

And since we’re all pretty frugal around here, I’m sure most of us strive to send our kids to school with homemade lunches. Have you ever thought about what kind of effect your kids’ school lunches have on the environment? Each prize pack comes with the following: 1 Reusable Kids Konserve Lunch Sack.

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Six Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Grocery Bags

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Lunch Bags Plastic grocery bags also make great lunch bags for your kids or for you. Recycle If none of these circumstances apply to you, you can always recycle your grocery bags. Many grocery stores will have a place where you can bring your plastic bags and leave them to be recycled.

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Entenmann’s Little Bites and Earth Day Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Kids can be recycling pros and turn trash into cash for their schools through a new campaign with snack time favorite Entenmann’s Little Bites to create a fully recyclable lunch! Entenmann’s Little Bites “Recycle…Reuse…Replenish” Fully Recyclable Lunch Tips: Recycle. Have any leftovers from lunch?

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GIVEAWAY: Kid Konserve Lunch Bag & Coupons from Annie’s Homegrown

Saving With Shellie

Did you know that every school lunch creates an average of 67 pounds of trash per school year!? That means, just one average-size middle school creates over 40,000 pounds of lunch waste each year. Help eliminate this was by sending your kids to school with a reusable lunch sack. That’s a lot of garbage! Ready to win?

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