Nude food lunches

This strategy to raise awareness about the use (or over use) of plastic in our environment has really taken hold across our school. It's fantastic to see.

The initiative has grown from having nude food picnics once per term with the whole school gathering on the oval to encouraging nude food lunch boxes weekly to now making Monday and Tuesday officially nude food days. The spill over to the other days of the week has been great to see. (These photos were taken on a Friday!)

The lunch boxes take many forms as parents figure out how to pack food without single use practice. There are inventive ways of keeping lunches cool, amazing stainless steel containers looking like modern day tiffin tins, plastic boxes with lids and small suitcase varieties with cute dividers.

One of the best things has been that these nude lunches are much healthier - gone are the chip packets and muesli bar wrappers having been replaced with cut fruit, baby tomatoes and cucumbers, crackers and cubes of cheese, buns and plastic free sandwiches. There's less cling wrap and more bees wax wraps.

I love that kids are pushing this initiative along themselves. They understand already how important it is for us to create less waste. I'm sure it won't be long before we can dispense with reminders and nude food celebrations and it just becomes part of our automatic practice.