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When I was asked to review “Go Picnic” ready to eat meals I couldn’t have been more excited. My son is always bugging me to buy the lunch box kits in the grocery stores so he can be “cool” like his friends but have you read the back of these boxes? Holey crap the sodium alone is enough to make me go running. I’m not unrealistic and I’ve picked my battles and yes, I’ve given in on occasion but for real they are not healthy – I can do better.

When our six boxes of Mighty Munch Meals arrived I thought I had found a life saver. One of those times where I could feed my children super healthy in a pinch, mom out of town dad has lunch or dinner,  wake up late and have lunch packed, instant on the Go Picnic (as the name suggests) except I was disappointed.

I love the concept of healthy on the go lunches for the kids, variety and super cute boxes with tattoos but a company attempting to provide healthy quality meals for children and families need to improve on several things to really get my vote, purchase and recommendation. Here is what this Green and Clean Mom did not like – including the emergency eye irrigation from the toxic lemon hand wipe that went from my child’s hand to their eye.

1) Less packaging waste. I love healthy meals but opening 5 or 6 individual bags or containers reminds me of being on a airplane. It felt odd and for two children who could not open their own packaging I spent a long time opening packaging. It ends in a lot of waste put into our landfill. I’m not a nut about this but there are reductions we can all make. I love the idea, the convenience but this is an abundance of waste.

2) My children liked half of what was in each box. I like to think (perhaps this is my problem) my children eat very healthy. Garden fresh peas and carrots, baked items verses fried and yes organic when possible. I’m FAR from perfect because we love take out pizza an yes we have some questionable stuff in our cupboard but my children were not lovin’ these combo’s and I think I ate most of the food (which was after my dinner and my waist was not happy).

Okay, besides my complaints I do say kudos to the company for trying to say no to trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, artificial colors and no peanut or nut ingredients. That’s a load in itself and if you add the reduction in waste and my beef with the horrible lemon wipe that seriously almost landed me in the emergency room and a son with a swollen bloodshot eye – well that’s a lot to handle. Except, I knew the wipe was not so great and I intended placing a phone call but like most children my son decided to open and wipe on his own even though I said,

“Henry we do not use those type of wipes they are not okay and mom said do not open.”

He frickin’ opened it! Three minutes later we had a screaming child that his eye was burning and he was hoping up and down like bees were stinging him. I looked at his cute box and the wipe was open. Wipe hand and then two seconds later the eye equals not okay with this mom and a child with a stinging eye in the shower with emergency eye irrigation – not cool with this mom.

My suggestion to the company is to at least replace those damn wipes or you could indeed have a lawsuit!!!