ChicoBag Snack Time Bags Giveaway
CONTEST CLOSED. Thanks everybody!
We are super proud to be giving away TWO SETS of ChicoBags award winning re-useable snack and sandwich bags this week!
Are you still packing your lunch using dozens of little plastic sandwich bags? Replace those single-use sandwich bags with these Snack Time reuable bags. Each Snack Time set includes three reusable bags that feature a fold-over, hook-and-loop closure system that expands to fit a full-size sandwich, or folds over for smaller snack items. The bags feature a food-safe, water and stain resistant liner that makes for easy cleaning. Each reusable snack pouch is machine washable and complete with a stylish, subtle print. Made of 78% recycled content. They’re not just sustainable and practical, they’re good-looking. No wonder they won a prize!
We love ChicoBag products. View some of their other on-the-go products. PLUS this week we are offering a 25% discount coupon for ChicoBag to our subscribers in our e-newsletter. Did you see it? Ca -ching. Cash in!
How to win a set of ChicoBag Snack Time bags:
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3. What is the most memorable item that you discovered in your lunch box? Do tell. My memory is such a fog these days, but I can recall stuff I tucked into my daughter’s lunch box. Being the nutrition nerd I am I sometimes cut the letters of her name out of nori (the sea vegetable). She liked it! What can I say. Okay. Your turn. Type your answer as a comment to this post.
4. Contest ends at 5pm on June 30th. Check your email on July 1st. The winners will be chosen by random.org. If you don’t respond to your “winner” email within 48 hours, we will choose a new winner.
Thank you to Sierra Norton for providing us with these practical, sustainably -produced bags to give away.
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Good ol’ pb&j.
Comment by Joan — June 26, 2012 @ 12:56 pm
My ex-husband proposed via sack lunch on a road trip. While the marriage wasn’t particularly memorable, the proposal certainly was!
Comment by Morgan O'Brien — June 26, 2012 @ 12:57 pm
My mom lovingly made me a healthy lunch almost everyday of my childhood, and I remember I used to get SO excited when she included a surprise note. It’s totally the little things in life that make the biggest impact!
Comment by Kristen — June 26, 2012 @ 1:00 pm
Oh my gosh. The most memorable thing I ever had in my lunchbox was a horse meat sandwich. In 7th grade. It wasn’t a surprise, because I packed it myself (it was left over from the previous night’s dinner and there wasn’t anything else). All my friends were completely freaked out.
Comment by Katherine Davis — June 26, 2012 @ 1:12 pm
My favorite thing that I looked forwad to every day was the napkin notes my mom would put in my lunch sack!
Comment by John D Smith — June 26, 2012 @ 1:42 pm
Hmmm…the most memorable item in my lunch bag (we couldn’t afford the metal boxes) were the cookies. It was a seldom included treat and if I got two, then it made my day!
Comment by Robyn Haaf — June 26, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
Hmmm, since I usually packed my own lunches starting very early, there wasn’t much element of surprise. I tried often to be creative, using pita instead of bread, or making a modular arrangement out of the containers. Anyhow, thanks for the chance, I’d love to win these bags and ditch the darn plastic!
Comment by Heather — June 26, 2012 @ 2:37 pm
my favorite black & white cookies when i was told we could not afford them
Comment by beverly — June 26, 2012 @ 2:39 pm
This is not food but reading this and asking the question what was most memorable would have to be finding ants in my lunch box one day. They invaded from the school closet where the lunch boxes were stored. Never happened again but I recall that day vividly.
Comment by Shelley B — June 26, 2012 @ 2:44 pm
I found a love note from my hubby one day when I opened my lunch at work. I can’t wait to start putting notes in my daughter’s lunch, but that’s a few years away.
Comment by Manisha — June 26, 2012 @ 3:01 pm
Once in a great while I would pack my own lunch box the night before. I would go all out including an appetizer, main course, chocolate or strawberry milk made from Nesquik and dessert. I loved those lunches and they were a glimpse into the future of a foodie!!
Comment by Wilhelmina Margalis — June 26, 2012 @ 3:04 pm
90 cents, in my pocket. My mother didn’t really cook (she had three things she could cook: baked potatoes, salad, and cabbage rolls), so I always got lunch money to buy lunch at school.
Comment by Natalie — June 26, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
Although my lunches were conventional, my brother’s were not. He, being a fussy eater only ate salami sandwiches. Being Catholic however, he could not eat them on Fridays. My mother’s solution? Toast sandwiches - two pieces of buttered toast placed together. He was known throughout the school for those Friday sandwiches.
Comment by Nancy — June 26, 2012 @ 3:07 pm
no one ever wanted to swap my lunches .
Marmite and chopped walnuts on homemade whole wheat bread with butter.
Comment by christine — June 26, 2012 @ 3:08 pm
Even though I would not eat them now, my mom would pack Little Debbie Snowballs. I just thought they were the neatest dessert in the whole world.
Comment by Pamela — June 26, 2012 @ 3:12 pm
Moldy cheese. I tried to convince my tablemates that mold was good for you — penicillin was made from it, so I said. To prove this, I ate it. Not one of my finer moments.
Comment by Deneen Bowen — June 26, 2012 @ 3:14 pm
My lunchbox was boring because I insisted on PB&J every single day. No surprise that my daughter now requests the same!!
Comment by Elisa — June 26, 2012 @ 3:24 pm
I would always put love notes in my childrens & my husband’s lunches & they always appreciated them. Nobody’s ever made me a sack lunch.
Comment by Keleigh Collins — June 26, 2012 @ 3:26 pm
I loved my ding dongs every day in High School for 3 years.
I had an amazing mom who packed lunches for all 6 kids and my dad every night. The most amazing part: Most of us liked different things and she had a chart that she’d posted to remind her what we liked. I liked the usual P, B & J, and P, B and honey, date and nut bread — out of the can with cream cheese, cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches and salami. Wierdly enough I also liked Salami and Honey….
Comment by Susie Cantor — June 26, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
I made crab salad from crabs, I personally picked,
for my husband in the 1st month of our marriage… 33 yrs ago!
He has never forgotten it… and that is why I love him and will always be there for my BFF/DH.
Comment by kath h — June 26, 2012 @ 3:33 pm
My mom would write a “magic” message on my banana with a fork in the am and it would mysteriously appear by my lunch time as the words turned brown - I now do the same for my kids and they love it!
Comment by Jodi m — June 26, 2012 @ 4:36 pm
Making spaghetti sandwiches for my dad’s lunch. He loved them. Spaghetti with red sauce between two slices of buttered white bread. :O)
Comment by Lori — June 26, 2012 @ 4:41 pm
My most memorable lunches were the ones with the milk still cold in the unbroken Thermos. My mom showed her love for me every day by making and packing my lunch for me throughout my elementary school years.
Comment by Nancy S — June 26, 2012 @ 4:49 pm
I remember little notes that my mom would send in my lunch box. They always made me smile.
Comment by Heidi — June 26, 2012 @ 4:58 pm
A pomegranate
Comment by Mary — June 26, 2012 @ 5:02 pm
Unfortunately, the most memorable item was a thermos filled with broken glass and chocolate milk!! Yes, I’m old enough to have taken a glass thermos bottle to school in my metal “Laugh In” lunchbox.
Comment by Pamela — June 26, 2012 @ 5:50 pm
Homemade bread! At the time it wasn’t memorable because everyone else had ’store-bought’ but I recognize the beauty of it now. Thanks, mum!
Comment by Tracey — June 26, 2012 @ 5:58 pm
I was always happy to discover a piece of cake in my lunchbox. Mom would bake a cake, cut in in half so the frosting was in the middle, then cut pieces that could now be wrapped without the frosting sticking to the wax paper. She froze the extras and used them in future lunches.
Comment by Jacquelyn Witte — June 26, 2012 @ 6:05 pm
My lunches were not very nutritious - butter (really margarine) and jelly on white bread, apple or carrot slices, Pringles, and Snack Pack pudding. Every day. I was a very picky child. It was 1970-something. I’ve come a long way! But my mother did send notes on my napkins and I loved those little messages.
Comment by Elizabeth Thomas Ladd — June 26, 2012 @ 6:06 pm
PB&J or sometimes honey with a box of sunmaid raisins in brown bag every day.
Comment by annie — June 26, 2012 @ 7:29 pm
We liked peanut butter in our lunches, and made our own from an early age . . . so not much of a surprise come lunch time!
Comment by Paula — June 26, 2012 @ 7:54 pm
Always packed my own lunches so no surprise, but loved peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
Comment by Esther Garcia-Cuellar — June 26, 2012 @ 8:32 pm
I don’t remember mine… in my son’s I like to make different “trail mixes” out of whatever bulk stuff I have… coconut, cranberries, cinnamon, almonds, etc. Today it was dried sea palm fronds and almonds. Oh, and I like to make a tortilla “rollie” out of coconut butter, peanut butter, tamari, carrots and cabbage. He likes it all.
Comment by Colleen Hayes — June 26, 2012 @ 8:40 pm
Actually, the surprise I remember most was when I realized I forget my lunch! Any day I didn’t have pb&j was also surprising.
Comment by Kathy — June 26, 2012 @ 9:06 pm
my mom would sometimes write notes on my napkin. food wise would be a bagel and lox.
Comment by Victoria — June 26, 2012 @ 9:06 pm
Anytime chocolate milk appeared in my lunch was a special surprise!
Comment by Katie — June 26, 2012 @ 9:53 pm
Since I pack my own lunch there is no surprise in what’s in my lunch box. The memorable “items” are what I see as I eat my lunch while I am out doing field work. A recent one was a dipper (a small bird that lives near running water) diving headfirst from its nest into the creek and surfacing with a small fish which it immediately brought to the nest to feed to its hungry babies.
Comment by kinuko — June 26, 2012 @ 10:11 pm
I don’t remember any surprises in my lunch as a child but a few years ago I was a teacher at a Japanese high school. The kitchen staff must have noticed that I always tried to cut my plum tomatoes in half with my chopsticks (pretty difficult!!) because I can’t stand it when they pop in my mouth. One day they started cutting my tomatoes for me, what a lovely surprise!
Comment by Chrissy — June 26, 2012 @ 10:37 pm
Honestly all that I remember from my brown bag lunches were bologna sandwiches with mayo & yellow mustard. Oh how I loved that stuff back then, but I sure wouldn’t feed it to my kids now.
Comment by Lisa M. — June 26, 2012 @ 10:49 pm
A glass lined thermos with homemade spaghetti….mmmmmm!
Comment by Nancy — June 26, 2012 @ 11:27 pm
when my mum put in home made granola bars and strawberries, that always made my day
Comment by Tui — June 27, 2012 @ 2:05 am
My mom would put a whole peeled hardboiled egg in a fold-top sandwich baggie. Then put another baggie with some salt shaken into it inside the bag. . .which, of course, meant finding salt all over my lunch box and none for the egg. I hated those fold over sandwich baggies!
Comment by Carrie @ Rhubarb Sky — June 27, 2012 @ 8:49 am
My dad packed my lunch for me every day. He made the best sandwiches. It was always a surprise to see my sandwich for the day.
Comment by Missy — June 27, 2012 @ 8:57 am
My mom made me peanut butter and marshmallow cream sandwiches. Totally unhealthy, but amazing!
Comment by Amy G — June 27, 2012 @ 9:24 am
I wish I had memorable things in my lunch boxes, but really I just remember our local hardware store putting out a display of metal lunch boxes in August and we’d race to get our choice before it was gone.
Comment by hether — June 27, 2012 @ 9:53 am
I wish I had memorable things in my lunch boxes, but really I just remember our local hardware store putting out a display of metal lunch boxes in August and we’d race to get our choice before it was gone.
Comment by hether — June 27, 2012 @ 9:54 am
oops. that first comment is the wrong email, don’t pick it!
Comment by hether — June 27, 2012 @ 9:55 am
In elementary school, when my mom made my lunch, I don’t remember anything standing out except for pb&j because it was the only type of sandwich I eat. More memorable though, is probably high school when I decided to buy lunch every day: a pack of hostess chocolate covered donuts, a bag of chips, and a sprite. I loved it, but now I look back with a bit of horror.
Comment by Tiffany — June 27, 2012 @ 2:02 pm
I am so embarrassed to admit that my most memorable lunch box item from when I was a kid was a “cheese sandwich” that consisted of soft white bread, miracle whip, and american cheese. Pretty disgusting and I would never put one in my daughter’s lunch box, ha ha. I was delighted when my daughter came home from camp this week and was happy that she made a friend who also gets healthy lunches. It pleases me to no end that she takes pride in eating nutritious organic whole foods.
Comment by Colette — June 27, 2012 @ 2:09 pm
Ok, so both of my parents are from other countries - My mother is Colombian and my father, German. Needless to say, food growing up was, well, different. My most memorable as a kid? Sliced tongue sandwiches. Thanks, mom!
Comment by Suzette — June 27, 2012 @ 3:57 pm
We never got a lot of treats as kids and one day in second grade my mom packed my lunch with a handful of Halloween candy. It was one of the best days ever as a sugar-obsessed 9 year old.
Comment by Kate @eatrecyclerepeat — June 27, 2012 @ 5:45 pm
my girlfriend replaced the cubed carrots in my thermos of lentil soup with cubed papaya from my trail mix. not a surprise i cared for, especially since i had taken the papaya out of my trail mix because i despise it.
Comment by kr — June 27, 2012 @ 7:00 pm
Money for “hot” lunch. Kidding! Peanut butter and banana sandwiches - YUM. And sometimes stickers that I could swap with my friends!
Comment by Krista — June 27, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
I honestly don’t think I can recall anything from my childhood lunchbox (I only remember eating cafeteria food!) For my daughter, she is always thrilled to find a salmon/cream cheese wrap in her bento box, or any of my home-baked goodies! Thanks for the chance to win these awesome looking snack bags!
Comment by Melissa — June 27, 2012 @ 7:08 pm
My mom always used to draw happy faces and write little notes on my lunch bag when I was a kid. Nice memories
Comment by Monica Kulaga — June 27, 2012 @ 7:19 pm
I can’t think of anything interesting since I pack my own. The preschool talked for years about the time I sent the boys (leftover) cold orzo salad with pomagranet arils(sp?) and feta. They also found it odd that I included V8 cans sometimes as a treat.
Comment by Lori — June 27, 2012 @ 7:35 pm
My mom used to make scotch toffee (made with oatmeal and sugary stuff, often with chocolate in too) and fruit leather ( I still make gay, ots my favorite). Everyone always wanted to trade me for them!
Comment by Juliana Caton — June 27, 2012 @ 9:18 pm
not so healthy, but i was always excited when we had little debbie snack cakes in our lunch box.
Comment by melissa — June 27, 2012 @ 9:33 pm
Just watching my mom pack my lunch is a memory by itself. She would wake up early and cook and pack it with such love that I would wait for lunch hour to relish it.
Comment by Shobana — June 27, 2012 @ 11:03 pm
Salmon rillettes with crackers and wine that was packed for a picnic!
Comment by Phoebe Yin — June 28, 2012 @ 12:29 am
Chocolate!
Comment by Annette — June 28, 2012 @ 6:22 am
Growing up, I always bought the school cafeteria lunch. Now, I pack a healthy lunch to take to the office. Someone usually exclaims that the breakroom smells so good after I heat it up! My favorite is leftover eggplant lasagna.
Comment by Molly B — June 28, 2012 @ 11:07 am
Notes from my mom & dad on my napkins. I can’t wait to do the same for my kids.
Comment by Jennifer J — June 29, 2012 @ 10:15 pm
I had quite a chuckle lately when I pulled out some figs (they grow in my backyard) and had a woman say, “what are those?” Granted, figs are so delicate that they are never seen fresh in supermarkets, but I thought everyone knew what they were!! A shocker.
Comment by wendy — July 8, 2012 @ 4:53 am