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15% off all Stainless Steel bottles

If any of your new year’s resolutions were to get fitter, drink more water or lead a greener life style then, if you are not already a converted user of Stainless Steel Bottles, here are some good reasons to treat yourself to a good looking and safe bottle.

Don’t Refill your disposable water bottle
It is quite surprising to see how many people in the gym are refilling disposable water bottles, which are manufactured for single use only.  One concern is the build up of bacteria as these bottles are hard to keep clean. After repeated use they can also leach chemicals like DEHP (phthalates) or BPA into your drink, which may be linked to cancer and reproductive health problems.

 
Plastic bottles
Stainless steel bottles keep your drinks fresh and great tasting for longer when plastic bottles often leave the drink tasting (and smelling) flat and stale. As already mentioned above, there is also the ongoing debate about the safety of drinking from polycarbonate plastic bottles containing the chemical BPA. 

Aluminium vs Stainless Steel
Also be aware of metal bottles made of Aluminium as most aluminium bottles have a plastic lining to prevent the transfer of taste and smell into the liquid. (This is not necessary for Stainless Steel.) The plastic lining may contain BPA or phthalates, and in addition, recent studies have also linked aluminium to Alzheimer’s disease.

Bottles are not just for those who exercise, they are great for keeping you hydrated throughout the day, and we all know how important that is for our bodies – inside and out! Keeping a bottle on your office desk also prevents accidents of spilled water over technical equipment and important paperwork.

Here at My Friendly Lunchbox we love (and only sell) stainless steel bottles.
Check out our great range from Crocodile Creek, Onya and Green Bottle. To help you kick start your new year and new you – all bottles are offered at a 15% discount for 7 days only.  Offer ends 23rd January 2012. View the bottles here.

My Friendly Lunchbox has many fun, useful and exciting products in stock that we think would make great gifts for your loved ones this year. 

Most products are light weight and small, which make them ideal to post or take with you. Our reusable products also have a lighter carbon footprint AND will go lighter on your budget as many items are under £10.00, here are a few:

Not long now and we will be back to packing lunches again, for ourselves and our children. More and more schools around the country are urging us to go waste free, which means less disposable containers and food wrapping. My Friendly Lunchbox specialize in reusable lunch box products and one of their most popular products is called the Food Kozy. It is a reusable food wrapper from the US company Kids Konserve whose innovative and sustainable products are changing the way Americans take lunch to school and work. In the run up to back to school we have created a list that compares the Food Kozy with cling film in the hope that more families will ditch the use of cling film and plastic food bags this coming term.

 

My Friendly Lunchbox, the online retailer for waste free and BPA free lunch box products, has been nominated for the Best Online Retailer in this year’s Loved By Parents award.

  

And the Kids Konserve Waste Free Snak Pak, imported from the US and sold by My Friendly Lunchbox, has been nominated for the 'Best Portable Feeding Product'.

We would love it if you could cast your vote our way; it only takes a few seconds. But please do not delay as voting closes on Friday 5^th August.

To vote for the Snak Pak and My Friendly Lunchbox visit the Loved by Parents website and select

1. Snak Pak under Feeding Products and *Best Portable Feeding Product.
   AND
2. http://www.myfriendlylunchbox.co.uk under *Best Online Retailer.

Founder and owner, Anna Silsbury, mother of two, says ‘It means a lot to be nominated for these awards, to myself personally as this is very much a One Woman Business. But also to ‘My Friendly Lunchbox’ as a concept, a simple concept built on a better and greener way to pack lunches and snacks - both for children and adults.

Thank you for your support!

The Snak Pak by Kids Konserve

The Snak Pak is the perfect waste-free solution for packing snacks or small lunches.

 

The Whimsy Snak Pak includes:

• Recycled cotton sack
• 2 small 304 food-grade leak-proof stainless steel containers
• 1 cloth napkin
• 1 food kozy / sandwich wrap
• 1 recycled aluminum name tag

Available in pink and blue and totally free from BPA, PVC, Lead and Phthalates.  £19.50