We pack picnic lunches a lot. We love to get outside and eating outside affords us more active time- plus no mess for me to clean up at home! My son goes to school in the afternoons so when we want to maximize our time out in the morning we pack lunch so we don’t have to waste time driving home to make lunch. I hate to be that person that says, “I did this before everyone else”, but I did. I’m not referring to picnic lunches, no, of course they’ve been around forever, but my interest in Japanese bento style lunch and alternative reusable lunch containers is one that I’ve had for a long time. In college I worked at a day care at Harvard that had many Japanese children whose parents were here studying. The children from Japan had lunches that were packed very differently from the American children.
