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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?
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!
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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!
Jennifer
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I’m already a member of the DSM forums
Jesse
How many times can we submit a comment? I see 10 of the same person… Multiple people doing this
Rebecca Larsen
Awesome! I always try to pack a special treat from Mom once or twice a week as a special surprise for my 3 school age kiddos. :)
Stephaniex33z
I make sandwiches and cut it with a cookie cutter to make cute shapes!
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I joined the forums!
jennifer
I like to leave notes, stickers, or little prizes like it is a “fast food kid’s meal”
bridget3420
My idea is give them something healthy and a little something sweet.
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Karen
My kids always took their lunch – even through High School as they really didn’t like the school lunches. I always tried to have a homemade treat to include rather than stuff like twinkies. To make it fun once a week each child would get a note or “coupon” for a special outing that week with just the two of us. They never knew what day it would appear or what the outing would be. That would give me an hour of special time with just that child each week. It was often just a walk in the park or a trip for an ice cream cone or even once in awhile a special lunch somewhere on Saturday. It is amazing how much they looked forward to finding the note and seeing what we were going to do together that week with just the two of us!
Sharon
When my daughter wants to take her lunch we always make it together. I let her decide what she wants to take. After it is packed and ready to go I always throw in a little something extra. If she did not pack fruit I will throw in some fruit. Or I may add some yogurt, something along that line. If it is test day I sneak in a little note to encourage her to do her best or sometimes just a little note to tell her we love her and are proud of her.
stacy
Very nice giveaway-with three kids going back to school this would be great to win.
Teresa
When son #3 was in 3rd. grade I found Rosie O’Donalds “Kids Are Punny” book at Goodwill for .59. Each day I wrote a new joke from the book on a folded index card. Joke on front flap, answer on the inside. This became so much fun for he and I, and his friends too.
For son #4, He liked having fish on fridays. Goldfish that is. He liked “fishing” for them in his thermos of tomato soup!
Judy
Once a week I put a free pass to skip chores for the day. They don’t know what day to expect it.
angelface0821
I go for low sugar and low salt lunches, but once a week we’ll have a “junk food” lunch like pizza or something else fun. It’s important for kids to learn good diet habits young, so they’ll continue on this way as they mature. I also like to put a little note in on the napkin, with my famous flower doodles (that’s about all I can draw…)
thanks!
Penny
I always decorate my little girls lunch bag. I stick with her favorites when packing her lunch. Since I can’t be there when she eats lunch I can relax because I know she will eat what I sent.
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Thanks so much!
Crystal
I have a picky daughter, so I let her decide what goes in. Also try to make sure I ask if she ate everything or what she didn’t, that way I can know how healthy/snacks to have out next time. Thanks!!
KATE
how easy would back to school be with this baby??
jennieb
i always pack completely healthy, but twice a week he gets a nice snack as a sweet surprise!
Jingle
Have your kids help make their lunches! That way they get excited about eating what they have prepared and you get some help at home!
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Ruth Ann
Growing up, my mom always let (made?) my sister and I pack our own lunches. We knew that we had to include a sandwich or yogurt, fruit or veggies, maybe some crackers and only one treat. Then, if we were upset with our lunch for whatever reason, it was our own fault and not Mom’s. Also, it gave Mom and great chance to talk to us about healthy eating choices.
Caroline Grossman
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Caroline Grossman
To attempt to liven up packed lunches I use cookie cutters so that the sandwiches have different shapes during the week, write a note with a sharpie pen on a napkin and mix up the sides (grapes, strawberries, pretzels etc.) to attempt to make lunch fun and diverse.
paula
I cut the sandwiches into fun shpaes of make things into kabobs