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.
We have multiple road trips planned for the summer as well as trips to the local park and whatnot. The BNTO is a great way to minimize the number of containers in the picnic bag!
Snacks with dip and salads with dressing
My kids will be home this would be great to send them out on their jobs and extra classes with snacks to keep them going.
Would be great to pack my lunches for work! And breakfasts, I pack those, too. 12 hour shifts are long and I need sustenance.
Perfect for picnics at the creek with my Grandsons 🙂
I’d Stop spending so much money and wasting time ordering takeout almost every workday lunch with BNTO! Nutella and sablé cookies ftw!
I’d Stop spending so much money and wasting time ordering takeout almost every workday lunch with BNTO! Nutella and sablé cookies ftw!
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I’d love to take a picnic hike this summer and pack some chips and salsa in a BNTO with a grain veggie salad and something sweet for dessert.
I would use these packing lunches for work. My husband and I are trying to get healthy and have commuted to not eating out anymore.
I’m thinking it would be a way to bring hummus to the beach. YUM!!
Would love to use these for lunch snacks!
These are so cool. I would us them to make ready to go snacks in the fridge. I have two teenage boys that are always hungry. I love the idea of cut up veggies and dressing.
I’d do some BNTO things! We’re about to move to more packed up snacks and lunches and I am looking forward to fun, creative solutions like this that don’t depend on a ton of tupperware.
I’m all about homemade iced coffee and pink lemonade in the summer, and I’d love an easier way to tote these drinks plus lunches to work. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’d do carrots, broccoli, etc with hummus or dip.
I’d do snacks for work and home.
I love to go on bike rides after work in the summer and bring along a dinner picnic! It’s the best antidote to being inside all day…
These would be great for packing snacks for day trips with my kids over the summer.
Summer time lunches, outdoors of course!
The bnto would be perfect for cottage cheese + jam + granola snacks. Alsao refrigerator oats + fruit!
Looks great for heading to summer concerts!
I would use them to take lunch to work. Thanks for the great giveaway.
So many possibilities. ..apples and peanut butter
I will use them to take my lunch to work. And snacks!
Yogurt w/fruit, veggies w/dip, salads w/croutons — all good uses for the BNTO.
I’d use them to take lunch to work
I would love to be able to take apples or bananas with peanut butter! 2 of my favorite snacks but hate having to buy the individual PB packs. Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
I would so love to have an adapter to pour my salad dressings out of the jar without spilling onto our table or making a mess
These would be so handy in my lunchs for work!
Hummus or peanut butter and carrots/celery
Salads with toppings
I’d love these for snacks for the kids for summer trips – camping and the zoo!
Question, would these also be good for holding a small amount of cabbage under its juices for sauerkraut? Just curious. I do love Cappow products for making my life easier.
These would be great for snacks.
Oh, my. These would be great for setting up snacks/little meals for the rest of the day, or even a couple of days. In summer, I really dislike spending time in the kitchen when there are so many fun things to do outside. Plus, a lot of small meals are better during hot days.
I would love to put healthy snacks in them for the pool visits.
I would put lunch in it and bring it to work.
I’d love to put snacks in them for my lunch in the park on warm summer day.