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Need delicious meal ideas and tips to make the most of your Bentgo lunch box? We’ve tapped some of the most creative minds in meal prep to share their best hacks and recipes. You’ll find interesting blogs on everything from meal planning for beginners to appealing to picky eaters and even whipping up healthy plant-based meals the whole family will love.

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5 Store-Bought Lunches Made Healthy [Video]

5 Store-Bought Lunches Made Healthy [Video]

It can sometimes be overwhelming to come up with new lunch ideas.  As a mom who makes five kid lunches daily, Sylina Lunches has come up with numerous healthy and fun lunch ideas that keep her kids happy and make life easier. This week, in a special video for Bentgo Kids, she shares her secrets for duplicating five popular store-bought lunches.

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Presentation Helps Make Back-to-School Lunch Fun

Presentation Helps Make Back-to-School Lunch Fun

What's the key to getting your kids excited about the back-to-school lunches you pack? According to @motivationmindy, our guest blogger this week, presentation is everything! Mindy shares how she uses Bentgo Kids to create picture-perfect lunches her first grader loves to eat.

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Back-to-School Recipe: Crispy Chickpea Nuggets

Back-to-School Recipe: Crispy Chickpea Nuggets

Wondering what to do with all your leftover dinner veggies? Turn them into a delicious back-to-school recipe, of course! This week's guest blogger Giorgina Orofino (@teenytinymeals) will show you how with her nutritious, kid-approved Crispy Chickpea Nuggets recipe. 

 

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6 Time-Saving Tips for Packing Healthy Back-to-School Lunches

6 Time-Saving Tips for Packing Healthy Back-to-School Lunches

Packing lunch quickly and easily is essential for busy moms and dads. According to KidLunchBoxes blogger Brenda Betancourt, the key is to keep it simple! She says, "Simple almost always equals healthy." This week – just in time for your back-to-school menu prep – she is sharing her top six tips for making lunch packing quick, easy, and fun. Dig in!

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10 Back-to-School Lunches Your Kids Will Love [Videos]

10 Back-to-School Lunches Your Kids Will Love [Videos]

With August less than a week away, school will be back in session before you know it. To help you get back in the swing of packing fun, healthy, and delicious lunches every day, we rounded up some of our favorite lunch prep videos from MOMables, ModernMom, and more. They're a quick watch and chock full of kid-tested lunch recipes. So let's dig in!

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The Art of Packing the Perfect Lunch for Work

The Art of Packing the Perfect Lunch for Work

Packing a lunch for work every day that is interesting, delicious and healthy is a challenge for the best of us. Fortunately, our guest blogger this week has got it down to a science. She not only packs her own lunchbox five days a week, but she does so for her entire family. Did we mention she does all that while working full-time as a lawyer and being an avid runner? Check out the 5 tips she says are the key to her success.

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Kids' Lunch Box Favorite: Quick & Easy Stir-fry

Kids' Lunch Box Favorite: Quick & Easy Stir-fry

Stir-fry is a fun and tasty way to add veggies and protein to your child's lunch box. In case you don't have your own time-tested stir-fry recipe, we've solicited some help from former Google Chef John King to deliver a quick and easy recipe your kids will love. How do we know? This recipe gets five stars from his toughest critics–his three sons!

 

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How to Make Your Healthy Eating Resolutions Stick

Resolving to eat better is easy to do on January 1. But, after a few weeks (or even days for some of us), old temptations take over and our good intentions get put on the back burner. If you’re tired of that same old song and dance, keep reading. We’ve scoured the Web to find the best advice out there from health bloggers, nutritionists and everyday people like you who have stuck to their guns and made healthy eating a way of life.

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The Zen of Taking Your Lunch to Work

 

Lunch time is often the only break you get during the day to decompress, re-energize and restore your Zen or sense of calm. But, can you honestly say you’re maximizing the benefits of your mid-day break? If you eat out a lot for lunch, chances are good you are not. Check out these three advantages of taking your lunch to work.

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