Health & Well Being

Health Starts Here – Whole Foods and whole grains for power packed lunch boxes

April 29, 2013

My friend Sarah packs some of the most delicious and gorgeous vegan lunch boxes I’ve seen.   I was especially bowled over by the ones she shared on This Week in Sarasota. A Florida beach-lover and plant-based food blogger, Sarah recently enjoyed a free “grains” class offered by the Sarasota Whole Foods Market in support [...]

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People with disabilities and allergies find self-reliance and dignity in a lunch box

April 12, 2013

Packing lunches with Cerebral Palsy “There are many simple things that most people take for granted. Lunch happens to be one of them.” In observance of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, my friend Rose wrote an eye-opening blog post about her husband’s struggle to find a way to eat lunch on his own at work. [...]

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Even more lunch box ideas for work

January 2, 2013

The surprising amount of traffic created from my last post, Adult bento lunch box ideas for work, for a man, or your big kids, is a terrific indication that a lot of you are packing lunches for people over 4 feet tall So last night, thanks to our new Google+ community for lunch-packers, I was delighted [...]

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Finding Your Core of Greatness

October 23, 2012

Jennifer Boykin‘s words inspired me to create the above image.   Click HERE to listen to an interview with her. If you’ve ever doubted yourself, then really… listen in. Working out and my Favorite Podcast I need a LOT of motivation to get through a workout (It’s all I can do to drag myself to the gym or [...]

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I’m Chatting With fitsmi Radio About Healthy Lunch box Packing

October 15, 2012

UPDATE: Listen NOW: I’m excited to be a guest tomorrow on the fistmiForMoms radio show! Tuesday Oct 16, at 11:30 am EST, I’ll be chatting with host Linda Frankenbach about how to jazz up kids’ lunches. I’ll also be sharing tips and ideas from my new Trader Joe’s/EasyLunchboxes cookbook too! Linda Frankenbach is a formerly overweight teen and knows [...]

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Two Moms on a Mission – One Lunchbox at a Time

August 30, 2012

We both have three kids. We’re both obsessed with feeding our families healthy food. We’re both obsessed with lunch packing, and we both work a little too hard (is there such a thing?) when it comes to promoting our message and what our businesses are all about. I’m the mom and ceo of EasyLunchboxes – [...]

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Fear of Food Touching is Manageable with Compartmentalized Containers

August 9, 2012

When I go to a Chinese restaurant, I actually don’t mind if some of my Kung Pao Chicken sauce mixes with my Sizzling Orange Beef sauce, all mushed together with my Shrimp Fried Rice. It’s not that I TRY to mix it all up, because I actually do enjoy separate tastes, but it seems like part [...]

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AUTISM Reality Show to offer FREE help and answers for families

August 1, 2012

UPDATE! April, 2013: FIX IT IN FIVE premiers on the Autism Channel! rarely post about causes and campaigns that are seeking donations. I’m sure your inbox is just as filled as mine with these heartfelt pleas, so it takes a lot for me to step up and add one more cause to your great “list of [...]

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Bye Bye Dye! Healthier alternatives to artificial food coloring

May 4, 2012

Color Me Happy! My almost 5 year old, Taia, has a pretty hard core intolerance to food coloring. If you would’ve told me a year ago that I’d be writing about food dye sensitivity here on Kelly Lester’s blog, I would have laughed in your face! Wow! Taia has always been a bundle of energy. [...]

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A Box of Nature Delivered to your Doorstep – Healthy Snacks

April 3, 2012

I know there are services out there that send you the “fruit of the month” and “wine of the month” – NatureBox is the first company I’ve seen to offer a “snack of the month.” I already liked the idea of reviewing this product because I received the assurance that these were snacks that “do [...]

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