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Back-to-School Giveaway: $150 Lunchbox Builder Prize Package

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Tune in all week for even more hot Back-To-School Giveaways, and be sure to check out all of the current giveaways for other great prizes!

To help kick off the school year and make school lunches a little bit more fun, Walmart, Smuckers, Motts and Pepperidge Farm have joined together to create LunchboxBuilder.com, a fun site where users can design their own lunchbox — complete with materials, colors and decals. You can print out your design and also add it to the gallery, where other visitors will vote on their favorite design, and the winners will receive an amazing prize package worth over $150! Be sure to take a few minutes to print coupons on some of your kids’ favorite snack foods while you’re there as well.

One lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader will also win one of these great prize packages (worth over $150!), which includes:

  • iPod Shuffle (color may vary)
  • Insulated lunchbox
  • Sharpie pens in multiple colors
  • Colored pencils
  • Smuckers Uncrustables container
  • Optical mouse
  • Smuckers belt pack
  • Motts reusable shopping bag
  • Smuckers Strawberry
  • Pencils
  • Product coupons
  • $65 Walmart gift card
  • Pedometer
  • 5 Labels for Education, valued at 10,000 points each

To enter, leave a comment and tell me what you do to make your kids’ lunches healthy and fun! Do you have a favorite fun food? Do you include a handwritten note reminding them that you love them?

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. Tell me your best idea for making school lunches healthy and fun!

2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!

3. Join the new Deal Seeking Mom Forums to chat about your great finds, special coupon codes, and chances to win exclusive giveaways. Leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve joined or that you’re already a registered user!

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(1) LunchboxBuilder.com prize package as described above

This giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, 8/30. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email on and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

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Comments

  4. Sarah

    I let them choose what kind of fruit they want and cut it up the ways they like. It makes the lunch THEIRS.

  8. Kermille

    I’m an email subscriber. My kids love fruit so I pack their lunches full of naturally sweet fruits since they both have a sweet tooth.

  15. Marlena U.

    I’ve learned that if you include the children in the preparation part of lunch packing, they are more likely to eat it. We spend time putting fresh fruit and veggies in little reuseable bowls and I let them pick out cookie cutters to make their sandwiches fun to eat!

  17. April C

    I always write a little love note to my son when he takes his lunch. I think it makes him special and I plan on doing it until it embarrasses him enough he ask me to stop!

  20. Kim Naff

    My favorite way to make lunch fun? Bento boxes. The Japanese do crazy things with their lunch boxes, and I try some of them out. Take apple slices, cut a V pointing toward the end of the apple slice and slice off the peel below it, also cutting below the points of the V. Soak in a little bowl of water with some lemon juice and you get “ringo usagi” or “apple bunnies”. I usually add a mini tub of caramel or peanut butter. Take mini hot dogs and cut about halfway up into 8 sections to make “legs”. Boil or microwave to make “tako weiners” or “octopus weiners”. Serve with ketchup or mustard. I also like to make an egg dish called tamagoyaki. It isn’t exactly authentic because dashi stock is difficult to come by where I live, but take about 3 eggs, add a 1/4 cup of water, a tbsp. of soy sauce, and a tbsp. of sugar. Mix. In a hot greased frying pan, add about 1/3 of the mixture. Let it cook through a bit and roll it into a log and push off to the side. Add another 1/3, let it cook pretty much through, and roll your “log” back through to add layers. Do this with the final bit as well. (Make sure you lift the “log” a bit so the fresh mix gets under the cooked bits.) When it’s all done, transfer it to a cutting board and let it cool most of the way. Slice in 1-inch sections and pack away. It’s really delicious, somewhat sweet, and great with something kind of salty like teriyaki chicken.

    Fruits and veggies prepared in fun ways often help quite a bit. I often will take potatos and carrots and boil them until they’re practically mush. I add a bit of rice flour and mix them until they’re somewhat stiff. I make lumpy balls with them, add a leftover apple stem to the top, and bake them until they’re somewhat stiff. They look like mini-pumpkins and are great in the fall and winter.

    Still, there are FAST healthy options, too, like fruit and apple sauce cups, and even things like Chef Boyardee are okay now and again. I like to make my own snack-size versions of things, and sometimes experiment with well-known recipes. Even my husband loves it when I make Fruity Pebble treats with some real dried fruit mixed in. I can’t keep them in the house!

  21. dina

    Just today my daughter asked for pb&j (made healthier with smucker’s or jif natural peanut butter and smucker’s no sugar added jelly). I usually cut it in a shape; flower, heart. But today she said “Leave it whole”. I admit, I was a little sad. Second graders are so grown up.

  24. Julie

    Healthy – always pack fruit
    Fun – always pack cookies :)
    I like to stick notes in her lunch to remind her to have a great day!