the thought of the lunch storage items getting lost is a sticking point. i get the non-PVC lunchboxes, and hadn't understood what the Thermos lunch containers could be used for before, but thanks to Doodlebug, i think i understand now. We've been usign the Thermos Foggo bottles for last few years, but never "got" the lunch containers before.

i'm thinking the food won't be the expensive bit, it will be teh lost/missing/snatched by bigger kids for a joke storage containers that will be the expensive bit. I will send food that will "keep" for a few hours, especially in our heatwave summers (lots of plus 40 temps the whole time bilby has been alive, each of the last four summers.

the foggo bottles are best part of 30 dollars, i wonder if i'll have to switch to plastic bottles, for school.

Is it only the littlies (preps, early grades) that lose the lunch stuff, or is it all agegroups? Prolly sounds silly, but i just can't imagine bilby keeping track of all this stuff, without me around (to do it for her, remind her etc). i hope the preps eat in their classroom or something.