Want to up your packed lunch, picnic, and snack game? This week, Cuppow is offering five $20 gift codes up to the Food in Jars community! Use the widget at the bottom of the post to enter!
During the winter months, I can happily spend week after week working away at my dining room table or perched at my desk (located behind the television), without feeling even a little bit restless. Many a day has passed when I haven’t so much as stepped toe outside my apartment building. But as soon as the weather begins to warm and the days lengthen, I start to feel squirrelly.
Lately, staying inside has made me feel fidgety, as if the walls of my apartment are a particularly itchy and confining wool sweater. And so, I’ve been changing my patterns and heading outside.
Some days, I only go as far as my neighborhood coffee shop or the covered concrete patio that juts off on the west side of my apartment building. Other days (far more infrequent than I’d like), I blow off work entirely and visit a friend who moved about an hour away this time last year and had a sweet baby boy back in December.
The one thing that all these outings have in common is my devotion to always packing a snack. As someone who tries to eat well most of the time but is highly susceptible to bakery cases and bags of chips at the check-out counter, being prepared is hugely helpful in avoiding temptation.
Lately, I’ve been reaching for my stash of BNTO jar adapters from Cuppow to help me pack up portable and waste-free snacks (because even when you do find a relatively virtuous snack in the world, the amount of packaging is enough to drive an environmentally minded person a little bit crazy).
On the particularly day pictured here, I filled jars with carrot sticks, apple slices, and yogurt with a dollop of quince jam. Into the BNTO adapters, I put peanut butter, hummus, and a bit of granola (embarrassingly, it was not homemade). Some homemade cold brew went into a wide mouth pint, with one of my original Cuppow lids secured on top for easy sipping.
With picnic season upon us, I encourage you all to spend a few minutes thinking about how you pack up your sandwiches, snacks, and treats. Perhaps a new BNTO or two would make the process more streamlined and less wasteful!
To that end, for this week’s giveaway, our friends at Cuppow are up five gift codes worth $20 a piece. Five lucky Food in Jars readers will each win one code to redeem over at the Cuppow website. You can choose from Cuppow lids, BNTO jar adaptors, Mason Taps, and CoffeeSocks! Use the widget below to enter.
Disclosure: Cuppow is a Food in Jars sponsor and are providing the codes for this giveaway at no cost to me. Products pictured were sent for review purposes. However, all opinions expressed here are mine alone.
Perfect for me! Perfect for the kids! Perfect for traveling!
I would certainly use a BNTO jar adapter to pack healthy snacks for my trips.
Such a great idea and super convenient!
These are so convenient and easy! I love the bag also!
It’d be so convenient to bring hummus and veggies for a snack!
We pack our own picnic lunches when we head out fishing in the VT streams. We’ve learned to be very careful with our glass containers as we do not use plastic. These would come in very handy–no night crawlers, I promise.
I’d use them to make healthy snacks for my husband to take to work.
I have a mason tap already, but would love another one! We make all our salad dressings from scratch, and usually have a couple jars in the fridge at any one time. The mason taps are perfect for them!
While on a trip, rather than pass the snack boxes/containers around the car; each person can enjoy their own snack containers. Very cool idea, thanks guys.
I would use them to take snacks to my sons spirting events.
It would be great for work lunches and for our photography hikes and camping. Thanks so much for the opportunity!
It would be so great to have these! I try to always pack lunch to take to work, and I can see how these would be a total game changer.
This would be perfect for taking healthy lunches to school!
both my husband and I pack breakfast and lunch to take to work – they would be so useful
The kids and I would use them in lunches taken to the pool or park. Hummus or nut butter mostly.
These are amazing! I need to start making yogurt!
I make yogurt and granola snacks and the granola is always soggy by the time I get to eat one. This would be wonderful for those and my apples and peanut butter snack! Love them!
I take snacks with me to the community garden once in a while. It usually is just a piece of sourdough torn in two with two slices of salami and cheese. This would be fun if I wanted to go all out and add nuts. or dippers…I could see these working great for my son this summer. If I won these he might even let me start
packing his lunch again. I could see vegesticks, lettuce wraps with meat and dippers. maybe even a few crackers. He is a fan of salads as well. Yes, this could put me back on his lunch maker track! I’d sure be a happy mama.
The jar adapters would make my snack packing for work much more tidy. I am always loosing my little jars in the bottom of my bag. And the cold brew coffee is a must try.
Would be perfect for packed lunches and snacks. I love my cup lid, but would love to try the cuppow BNTO!
I’ve been wanting to try one offer salad dressing for very long time. Thanks for the opportunity!
Lunch at work! Everyone will be jealous 🙂
These would be great for camping or hiking. Or picnics!
Warmer weather = more roadtrips! These are great for everything! I love my jars wit cuppow lid for iced coffees.
I’m trying to be better about bringing my lunch to work instead of buying from our vending store in the break room. I’ve been on the look out for containers that work for me, and these would be a great addition!
Use them for everything! I am “the jar lady” at work! Cold brew and veggies and dip are my faves!!
How wonderful these would be for packing lunches!
Yogurt and granola and salad with dressing are things I’d love be to be able to take along!
I’d use them for yogurt and granola, and definitely the drinking lid for tea/iced tea! Mason jars are among my standard lunch bag containers, and these Cuppow lids would be a great addition.
Interesting lunches are so hard to make when you’re trying to stay away from cheap plastic!! I love these ‘fit in the jar’ lids & containers for lunches. I’m also fond of peanut butter & apples!! And hummus goes well with everything. One of my favorites is feta cheese in a container with a tomato/cucumber salad.
I’d love to try their cold brew coffee kit!
I’m preparing to begin packing lunch every day later this year and this would be very helpful!
These would be perfect for taking to work.
I’d use these for packing ALL THE SNACKS for my son!
I would firstly use them for granola and yogurt! Plus many other uses I’m sure!
Love my Bnto’s!
lunches for sure….
I take my lunch to work every day. This would be a great addition to my lunch box.
I love to put drinks in mason jars with the sipping lid. So convenient!
My 6 year old has asked if we could have a picnic so these would be perfect for her first one!
Trying to get better about having healthy snacks on hand at work, and Cuppow products would help immensely!
I am heading back into the workplace after working remotely and would love a waste-free option for bringing snacks and lunch to work!
The apples and peanut butter using a bento cup look so tasty! I would definitely do that. And maybe bring a smoothie in the mornings with me using the Cuppow lid.
I would use the bento cups on my new wide mouth pint and a half jars, veggies and dip!
It would be great for packing food for lunches at work! Need to get more organized!
These would be awesome for work lunches 🙂
I would like to use one for packing peanut butter with celery sticks for evening picnics in the park! Or some other veggies and dip combo.
I take snacks from home when I’m out and about, especially with my two kids, and this would make it so much easier to up my game!
picnics!
I have 3 kids…how wouldn’t we use them? Swimming at a friends house, out staring at the clouds, hiking at our favorite nature spots, park days with friends…we could definitely put these to work!