Disclosure: I was provided a Horizon Organic back to school school lunch kit (identical to the one that I’m giving away in this post) to facilitate my review. All thoughts, text, and photos are my own.
My girls go to a school that provides breakfast, lunch, and 2 snacks, but about midway through the summer, I noticed lunch boxes on the shelves in Greenleigh’s classroom. When I questioned her teacher about the sudden appearance of lunch boxes, she told me that some of the lunch options were not that great and some of the parents had decided to opt out of school lunch and send their kids with homemade lunches instead. Sure enough, about 2 weeks after that, Greenleigh started asking me to make her lunch.
[Insert heavy sigh here.]
You know those moms that send their kids to school with creative Pinterest-worthy lunches that include sandwiches shaped like puppy dog faces? Yeah, I’m not one of those moms. It’s not that I don’t want to be, it’s just that as a busy working mom, I often lack the time, creativity, and opportunity to grocery shop for the supplies needed for said Pinterest-worth lunches and puppy dog face sandwiches. So school lunches always worked for us. But when I started getting reports back from the teacher saying that Greenleigh was skipping snack – and even lunch on occasion – I knew that something needed to be done. I was going to have to start finding the time to put together nutritious lunches and snacks to send with her (Hazeline wasn’t an issue because she was still eating and enjoying school lunches and snacks).
And so I started researching…after all, I didn’t want to send her to school with just anything – I wanted her lunches to be balanced and nutritious, full of foods that she would want to eat. Most importantly, I didn’t want her to get bored with the options I was sending her with.
It wasn’t long before I stumbled on Horizon Organic 5 Lunch Needs & 50 ways to please. Designed by nationally-recognized nutritionist and author Elizabeth Somer, this guide sets out to help parents and kids make a plan for their school lunches. It contains not only a outline of the 5 food groups but 10 kid approved lunch box ideas under each category. The end goal is for parents and kids to work together in selecting healthy options for their lunch boxes, with Horizon Organic milk being a part of that plan. Shelf stable and packed with 8 grams of protein, Vitamins A & D, calcium and the added benefit of DHA omega-3, Horizon Organic is the natural choice for school lunch boxes.
With the guide’s help, we’ve been making lunches in our house for roughly 2 weeks and things are going remarkably well. Every night, Greenleigh helps me put together a lunch filled with healthy options and every afternoon she comes home with an empty lunch box. It’s not puppy dog face sandwiches, but it’s healthy and I like that. Better yet, Greenleigh likes it, and I suppose in the end, that’s all that really matters.
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I didn’t know that Horizon made all those products. I had seen the little milk packs but that was all. I would like to try the cottage cheese and the cream cheese.
I’d like to have my daughter try their blended yogurt Tuberz. That looks like something she would like; especially the strawberry lemonade flavor.
I, too, am a busy working mom of two little guys who need their lunches packed. It really does get hard to stay creative, so I’d love to win this prize!
I always pack a Horizon strawberry or chocolate milk in my kids lunchbox!
I like their Regular Cream Cheese
I like the cheese sticks, my kids go through those like crazy
I love that they make lactose free milk! My daughter has an allergy so that would be great!
I want to try their yogurt.
I like their yogurt.
I’d like to try the Cream-on-Top Whole Mlk yogurt, the vanilla flavor. All I can find is fat free or low fat and I want my son to not have those chemicals. I could mix fruit with it to make it more flavorful for him.
My favorite is Organic Colby Cheese Sticks.
We pack the cheese sticks in our grandsons lunch. I truly must be living in a cave I had no idea about the boxed milk.
I like Horizon cottage cheese.
I would love to try Horizon’s cheese and eggs. Thank you so much for the chance to win!
What it is is organic dairy products. I always buy horizon milk….I wish my store carried all of their other products.
I’d love to try their organic eggs and low fat chocolate milk with DHA and omega-3s.
I live that they offer eggs and cheese products I never knew that
wow I had NO IDEA horizon had all these products. I’d like to try cottage cheese or the yogurt
my daughter would love the Tuberz yogurts in her lunch box!
I love their egg whites- I use a lot on my diet plan
I use their products when I can – I love the shelf stable milk boxes (they are more popular in foreign countries than the US) but the problem with their products is that the shelf is almost always cleared of them at my local Safeway and about half of the time I order them on amazon they arrive damaged. Wish they were more prevalent and easier to buy.
I think my kids would really enjoy the Tuberz, especially the Strawberry Lemonade Squeeze flavor.
Fat-Free Plain Yogurt
I love their milk and try to only buy organic.
We love real butter but I had never thought about organic butter! Will be looking for that!
http://www.horizondairy.com/products/cheese/shredded-cheddar-cheese/
We love Horizon Organic milk! The strawberry is our favorite!
The blended yogurt tuberz look good.
I love the mozzarella cheese sticks!
Their yogurt
Horizon products are a regular in our household. I love their eggnog( not on the website). My kids inhale the Blended Yogurt Tuberz. Often we freeze them so they are like popsicles.
Wow I didn’t know they made all those products! I just new about the small milk boxes and my grandson LOVES those. I would love to try the Yogurt Tuberz and the eggs and cottage cheese!
our favorite horizon product to buy is the Lowfat Chocolate Milk plus DHA Omega-3 , haven’t tried their eggs yet.
I LOVE Horizons! They are such a great company and quality products. Love their half & half
I love organic dairy products…love the lactos free milk
we’ve only tried the refrigerated organic milk, we’d love to try the chocolate milk “juice boxes”
I would love the Chocolate and I like that these Milk boxes can safely live in the pantry until you’re ready to chill and enjoy! My granddaughter loves chocolate milk
I have never tried the cottage cheese-I need to check if my store carries it!
I want to try the chocolate milk
I’d be interested in trying the low-fat strawberry milk
My son cannot get enough of the milk boxes. I usually buy 1% but will sometimes get chocolate of strawberry.
shelf stable chocolate milk boxes
I’d try the Blended Yogurt Tuberz
I like Milk plus DHA Omega-3
My favorite item is their Colby Cheese Sticks
Their cream cheese sounds like a great product that I’d also like to try sometime!
Seasidesmitten@aol.com
I would like to try their yogurt or cheese sticks.
I’ve seen their milks, but I didn’t know they made so many organic products! I would love to try their Blended Yogurt
Tuberz. Thanks!
they have so many items i didn’t know about, I already buy their lactose-free milk and shelf stable milk, but yogurt and cheesesticks, sour cream, and butter i haven’t seen or heard about
Like to try the Butter and Cottage Cheese, never had them.
the Colby Cheese Sticks
I’d love to try the butter. I never knew Horizons made products other than milk.
Love to try the blended yogart.. thanks for the sweet giveaway chance.
Tuberz yogurts would be what my kids like the most.
I really want to try the cheese sticks! We already love the chocolate milk at our house ( we buy in bulk at Sam’s Club).
I would really like to try the Organic eggs.
I love Horizon’s sour cream
Chocolate milk!!
Blended Yogurt
Tuberz™
I would like to try their cream cheese
I’d like to try the Large & Extra Large Omega-3 Egg Whites
Horizon Organic is an awesome company that has been selling organic dairy products and now works with organic farmers. Gives us healthy food and helps the environment. Everything that they sell looks yummy but my daughters fave would be the yogurt tuberz!!
I’d like to try their cream cheese but I’ve not seen it sold in my area… only the milk
I think the Colby cheese sticks sound yummy
My kids would love the Sour Apple Spray tuberz yogurt tube.
I’d love the colby cheese sticks (:
I want to try the tuberz!
we like their egg whites
Their yogurt
I like the Cream on Top Vanilla Yogurt.
I would love to try the Horizon Organic Eggs
id love to try their butter and cottage cheese
My kids would like the Tuberz.
I’d like to try the Lowfat Chocolate Milk plus DHA Omega-3 .
Thanks!
I would like to try their Blended Yogurt
Tuberz
i like the easy boxes of milk and I like their blended yogurt- very yummy!
We use Horizon cheese and cottage cheese on a regular basis and love it.
jweezie43@gmail.com
I didn’t know that there was such a wide variety of Horizon products. I will definitely be checking out my local grocery store and trying some stuff out!
They make organic eggs? I thought they only did milk!
I would like to try the cheese sticks and chocolate milk – I think both would be a big hit in my house.
I’ve always loved the chocolate milk. Now I’d like to try the cheese sticks.
I love bagels so I’d love to try their cream cheese
I’d like to try the Fat Free Vanilla Yogurt.
Always get their cottage cheese and sour cream
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I would love to try their sour cream and cream cheese!
Cheese Sticks.
I’d love to try their sour cream because natural always tastes best!
Cream cheese
I like their Colby Cheese Sticks
Thanks for the contest.
slehan at juno dot com
I love the Horizon cheese sticks.
I love their stuff… soo yummy
Their chocolate milk is the best I’ve ever had!
Love the cheese sticks.
I have a little boy with autism who has some pretty severe oral sensitivity (he can’t handle more than a little texture in his foods), so something like the Whole Milk plus DHA Omega-3 would be a great addition to his diet.
I’d love to try organic cheese sticks!
I really like their 2% milk. It is the best.
I’d love to try their eggnog!
I would like to try the yogurt blended tubz for lunches
I’m a sucker for their Mozzarella Cheese Sticks .
Horizon Organic makes dairy products.
I thought they just made milk. I’d love to try their cheese and butter.