Wholesome Lunchbox – Announcing Monthly Food Blogging Event
January 17th, 2008 by Margot
Wholesome Lunchbox is a food blogging event that take part on 15th of each month on this website. It is collection of delicious lunchbox ideas from all over the World.
You can take a look at Round-up Archive here.
Your Entry:
Please send all entries anytime before 15th of each month at:
coffeeandvanilla(at)416studios(dot)co(dot)uk with “Wholesome Lunchbox” in the subject line, including:
- link to your entry
- your name / nickname to be used in the round-up
- name of your blog / website / Flickr profile etc.
- location (where are you from?)
Now you can also submit your entry through Wholesome Lunchbox Flickr Group at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/coffeeandvanilla
Rules:
- Your entry has to be lunchbox food, preferably easy to prepare and healthy. It should have picture and recipe or description of what is in the box.
- Your entry can be post from your blog archive, or posted especially for this event. It can be also image on Flickr or in other photo gallery, as long as it has notes saying what is inside.
- Please link back to this post: http://www.coffeeandvanilla.com/?p=1429 in your entry and if it is possible include one of the event banners. This point is not obligatory for Flickr entries.
- Maximum 3 entries per person every month, if you submit more I will choose the best 3 ones in my opinion to be published in the round-up. Also please do not submit different images of the same lunch.
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Additional information for parents/careers:
If it is a lunch for kids it should (but does not have to as long as they are getting all necessary nutrients during the day) contain one item from each categories:
- carbohydrates (tummy fillers): sandwich, wrap, muffin, quiche, pizza slice, pasta salad, rice salad, couscous salad, bread sticks, crackers, bananas;
- proteins (meat, fish, eggs, beans): tuna sandwich filler, slices of ham in a sandwich, pieces of chicken in salad;
- fruit & veg (vitamins & minerals, part of 5 a day): fresh, tinned or dried fruits, nuts (only when allowed), seeds, fruit salad, jelly made with fruit pieces and natural juice, raw vegetables, salad leaves;
- dairy products (calcium for growing bones): yogurt, fromage frais, yellow cheese, rice pudding, custard, cottage cheese, cream cheese;
-drinks (to keep them hydrated): water, fruit tea, milkshake, smoothie, juice, plain or flavoured milk);
- treats (as a element of surprise): some little sweet (preferably homemade), sticker, fun food pick or favourite fruit (I usually hide lunchbox items in fridge drawer so I can surprise my daughter with some blueberries or other things she loves and is not expecting that day).
Items that are not recommended include:
- nuts (in most primary schools they are banned due to allergies);
- chocolate or chocolate covered biscuits and generally sweets;
- rich in salt, processed snacks such as potato crisps;
- snacks rich in sugar, even many cereal bars contain extra added sugar;
- fruit drinks that has little real fruit and plenty of sugar and artificial colours and flavourings;
- fizzy drinks.
I’m looking forward seeing your entries … Margot
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January 17th, 2008 at 14:35
Hi Margot, hope you’re well.
I’ll try and do something for this. Can’t promise as I have a brain like a sieve at the moment!
January 17th, 2008 at 17:12
It is a wonderful idea, it will come handy for ppl who pack lunch boxes
January 18th, 2008 at 14:18
As Happy Cook said a wonderful idea!!
Rosie x
January 19th, 2008 at 06:29
Thanks for the dropping by Margot. If you want I can send couple of my archives too..as you know I have a series running on them…let me know. I have linked yours to my yesterday’s post…thanks drop me a mail!
January 20th, 2008 at 02:19
thank you for the invitation and i’d like to join thanks again.
January 21st, 2008 at 08:20
Hi, Margot,
Thank you for the invite — I’d like to participate.
March 10th, 2008 at 16:58
Hi there! if it’s ok i’d like to send in an entry, i followed the link from tokiwa’s site, but everyone so far seems to have been invited. i hope it’s ok to enter despite this though…
birlliant idea, i have a few recipes i like to think are healthy and tasty! ^_^
Roxi
March 17th, 2008 at 19:52
Ahhh, I didn’t get a chance to enter *pout* but will definitely try to do something for next month. Thanks!!!
May 7th, 2008 at 06:58
Hee very pretty. Love all your props!
July 18th, 2008 at 02:58
I just posted this event info on the new Lunch Blog Events page on Lunch in a Box: http://lunchinabox.net/links/lunch-blog-events/
August 13th, 2008 at 15:14
i will soon join this! can’t wait to share! fun to do this!
November 30th, 2008 at 15:07
Hi, Nice event. I have one in my blog and yet to post one.
March 18th, 2009 at 19:13
We will try to join it next month;)
October 30th, 2009 at 17:13
Awesome! I’ll try to participate and share my packed lunch. Its quite cool! Oh well is there a competition like the most healthy packed lunch that supports environmentally friendly containers? I think it will be great too. What do you think?
>Happy Tiffin everyone!
November 4th, 2009 at 22:14
Great, looking forwarding seeing your entries!
Yes, environmentally friendly containers such as metal fiffins are great idea but not for very small children. Even regular food containers sometimes are very hard to close and open. The only lunchboxes that don’t cause any trouble to my 4 year old are Japanese bento boxes. They are definitely more environmentally friendly that plastic sandwich bags that are thrown away every day.
November 11th, 2009 at 14:35
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