As an Enviro school we promote litter-less food lunchboxes. Based around the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) - wrap/litter free nude lunches are lunches that contain food items with no disposable packaging or single use items, such as pre-packaged foods, plastic bags, disposable utensils, plastic straws or food wrapped in cling wrap or foil.

What is Nude Food?

We can reduce packaging by bringing Nude Food to school. Nude Food is essentially food without packaging. This reduces the amount of material that needs to go in landfill bins. 

Durable, reusable containers are a great way to bring food, as they may last from pre-school through to high school and beyond, providing long term cost savings and environmental benefits. 

Do it! Join the nude food litter-less lunch revolution!

Make a conscious decision to only include foods that leave no packaging at the end of the day. Pop the sandwich or bread roll into a reusable sandwich wrap, use small containers for snack foods and, of course, pack a reusable drink bottle. The only thing left at the end of the day should be an apple core, crusts or other left over food remnants – all good fodder for the compost, which will enrich our soils.

Waste from packaging will be placed back in your child's lunchbox to take home and we will be encouraging students to take home any food waste as this helps keep the school predator free.

We are a water school so prefer children to drink water. They can bring a reusable drink bottle and fill at school with our filtered water. 

· Help children to make nutritious, waste-less lunches and let them make their own lunches. Try packing lunches the night before and storing them in the fridge overnight.

· Discuss with your child what they like to eat and how much. Bin audits in schools show large quantities of unopened pre-packaged foods, including single-serve yogurts, cheese sticks, sandwiches, uneaten apples/fruit and many near full fruit boxes being thrown away. This costs your family money as well as creating waste.

· Cut up fruit and vegetables and pack them in reusable containers so that children can eat some and save the rest for later. For example, it's hard to take some bites from a big apple at break and save the rest for lunchtime. It's easier to eat a wedge or two and then reseal the container. A rubber band around sliced apple will prevent browning.

· Encourage your children to bring home uneaten food to eat after school. Appreciate that play time is also important, so discuss with children how much they can reasonably eat in one day. Often children throw uneaten food away because they don’t want to upset the person who packed the lunch. 

· If your children have chips, savoury biscuits, or other snacks try buying a larger bulk pack (rather than the more expensive so called ‘convenience’ packs with lots of packaging) and have your children put the same quantity into a reusable labelled container that they bring home each day.

Nude Litter-less Lunchbox Ideas

• Boiled eggs in shells
• Homemade muffins
• Fruit with sturdy skins
• Meatballs or rissoles
• Felafels
• Sandwiches, wraps or rolls
• Trail mix
• A bundle of carrots tied up with kitchen string
• A small tub of hummus or some other dip
• Cheese cubes
• Pasta salad
• Salad
• Yoghurt in a reusable container