  Meet the new brown bag.
It's Easy Eating Green at School Posted: August 25, 2008 By: Lauren Boyle We all worry about what our children eat–especially when they're in the school cafeteria and far from our watchful, health-conscious eyes. Lucky for us, so do Anne Weber and Dave Feinberg, founders of the Evanston-based Green Bag Lunch program. ... We all worry about what our children eat–especially when they're in the school cafeteria and far from our watchful, health-conscious eyes. Lucky for us, so do Anne Weber and Dave Feinberg, founders of the Evanston-based Green Bag Lunch program.
Green Bag Lunch brings green into your child's lunchtime cuisine, offering an easy solution for busy parents concerned both with their children's wellbeing and the health of the planet. Green Bag Lunch is so simple: just sign up for an account on www.greenbaglunch.com and purchase lunches for your child, which are then delivered to their school. Menus consist of healthy, well-balanced meals that rethink classic standbys like Cheesy Tomato Pizza Bread and Grilled Chicken Mini-Wraps using fresh– and often organic–ingredients. Green Bag Lunch also features some unique options (Pumpkin Wheat Muffin, anyone?), making it easy to introduce your child to a plethora of alternative cuisines and flavors, like hummus and edamame. In addition to all-natural ingredients, the lunches are served in eco-friendly containers, cellulose baggies, "plastique" cups, recycled paper bags, and accompanied by biodegradable plasticware. Launched in 2007, the program as been met with great success; their usership has nearly doubled with each season. Currently, Green Bag Lunches serves roughly 1,300 lunches a week to 20 schools throughout the North Shore.  The public response is unsurprising: Green Bag Lunch is problem solving at its most innovative. As parents, Dave and Anne understand all too well how difficult it can be for parents to provide healthy choices for demanding and picky young eaters. And many working parents underestimate how time-consuming the seemingly "small task" of making lunches in the morning can be. Anne recalls, "Suddenly, it became so hard to take care of the little things, like making sure the kids ate well. It was really time versus ideals, and I knew there had to be a better way."
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This is a wonderful program. However, the lunches are prepared in a commercial kitchen where they cannot ensure that the meals are nut free.
by: Anonymous @ Wednesday August 27, 2008 | 7:12:33 AM
Hubbard Woods Elementary School is hooked! We are using them once a month, it is easy to order on line with your child, all the items are healthy and the packaging is biodegradable! How can you go wrong with a price of $5-have your school give it a try, you won't be disappointed.
by: Heather @ Wednesday August 27, 2008 | 8:05:53 AM
I love this idea! I wish Wilmette schools would consider this as an option.
by: Anonymous @ Wednesday August 27, 2008 | 9:02:24 AM
My sons used the GBL program last summer at the Wilmette park district camps, and it was wonderful. It was so great to know that they were eating healthy foods that I didn't have to spend time preparing. My sons (one of whom is a picky eater) liked everything they offered, but wished that the lunches were bigger (my 11 year old said he could eat 2 lunches). I also wish the Wilmette schools would offer this.
by: Anonymous @ Wednesday August 27, 2008 | 12:35:34 PM