Back to School with Honest Kids and Dabbawalla Bags Giveaway!

Thank you to Honest Tea and Dabbawalla Bags for sponsoring this amazing giveaway!

When it comes to back-to-school shopping and planning, I love it. New supplies, new gear, new clothes, new books…it just makes me happy. And those are the things that most of us probably think of first when we start making lists.

One thing that I tend to start thinking about too late is lunch.  I like to send lunch to school with my kids rather than hope the school will provide something healthy.  This means planning–sometimes lots of it. I realized a long time ago that I can get carried away with lunch planning if I don’t look to the right brands and products, so I want to share two with you that have become go-to brands for me: Honest Kids and Dabbawalla Bags.

Honest Kids has a full line of juices made by the folks at Honest Tea, and I bet you’re already familiar with them. If you haven’t tried their delicious juices, now is the time! Like other Honest products, the Honest Kids juice line is organic, and these are also gluten-free. The line includes a variety of yummy flavors: Super Fruit Punch, Appley Ever After, Berry Berry Good Lemonade, Goodness Grapeness, Cherry Go Round, and Twisted Tropical Tango.  These juices are sweetened only with organic fruit juice, because cane sugar was removed from all Honest Kids varieties in 2013. You probably already know my thoughts on sugar, so this makes me incredibly happy. The Honest Tea company is also focused on sustainability and responsible business practices with all their suppliers.

When it’s time to pack those lunches, I’m excited to load up my kids’ Dabbawalla lunch bags with Honest Kids and other delicious goodies.

Dabawalla Bags is a small mom-owned company with a mission of making individually crafted bags made from sustainable materials.  All Dabbawalla lunch bags are flexible, strong, insulated, and they are made from a foam textile called TPE, which is an environmentally-friendly alternative to neoprene. These bags are completely biodegradable and 100% free from toxins. They only use water based adhesives, so it’s also solvent free and has no residual VOCs. Basically, this bag is as environmentally- and person-friendly as they come and I love them! They have around 20 adorable designs, from animals and monsters to cars and rocket ships, and even a few flags and solid colors. Everyone can find a design they love!

Lunch planning and packing can be unnecessarily stressful if you allow it, but there are plenty of ways to take the stress away. Honest Kids juices and Dabbawalla lunch bags are excellent first steps to making lunch planning easy and fun!  To learn more about both, visit HonestTea.com and DabbawallaBags.com.

Before you go, here’s the best part of this post:  we have an awesome giveaway! FIVE lucky readers will win a month’s supply of Honest Kids and a lunch bag from Dabbawalla Bags! Winners will be able to choose from six adorable lunch bag designs (Ladybug, Race Car, Leapin’ Lemur, Brown Bear, Penguin, British Union Jack, Apple, Owl, Pink Monkey, or Blue Monkey). This is a fantastic opportunity, so make sure you don’t miss your chance to win! Just enter via the Giveaway Tools form below by September 30, 2016 at 11:59 PM ET.  (Open to US residents who are 18 and older.)  Good luck!