Learn about Healthy Environments for Kids

Healthy Child Healthy World is a great place online that gives all sorts of information to help you help your family have the healthiest start in life.  Many mom celebs like Sheryl Crow, Laura Dern, Brooke Sheilds and Meryl Streep give a voice to this wonderful site that offers answers, support and solutions for for creating a healthy and safe environment for kids.

I highly recommend you check it out to see what green tips and inspiration the site can offer you snd your family.  It is so nice to have so much information in one place!  For more local informationabout this great organization and it’s partners please contact Anke at info@naturalsolutionsbyanke.com 

Mama Jen

Flying on a plane with allergies is made better with PlaneSheets

 Recently, a friend of ours was researching flying with her daughter who has severe food allergies.  She was nervous about wiping down the plane seats, because her daughter could have a reaction just being in contact with residue or near the foods she is allergic to.  Talk about stressful parenting!!!  The research she did to help make things as safe as possibe on their multiple flights from the US to New Zealand, led her to this amazing product by Planesheets.com!!!

Leslie Danelion and Rick Berge, whose relationship began as a long distance relationship with numerous flights between Minneapolis and Los Angeles, are the masterminds behind this great product.  With so much flying, they were subjected to unclean airplane seats so often, that they ended up making a cover to use…now their idea has grown into a successful company that helps so many people address cleanliness on flights, as well as lower the risk of coming into contact with allergens.  Smart smart smart!!!

If you, or someone you know flys often, or needs something to aid in the protection from allergens while flying, check these out!!  They are available as reusable, washable plane seat covers, or disposable covers!  Mama Jen

Healthy Back to School Lunches made easy with Laptop Lunches!

       Bento-ware for everywhere, ” is the motto for Laptop Lunches. This company makes phenomenal lead-free, reusable, waste-free bento style lunch systems for your little school-goer! 

The lunchbox comes in a slick looking laptop bag that is adorable!  Inside the laptop bag, there is a lunchbox with differently sized containers within…these are mom invented, mom tested, so the containers were sized to perfectly fit the inner luchbox and contain a balanced and nutritious lunch!  There is also a reusable fork and spoon and safe plastic water bottle—No more baggies and paper lunch bags, and plastic utensils filling the trash and heading for our landfills….seriously, imagine the dent we could make in improving the environment if every kid used Laptop Lunches!!!  Hmmm…oh yes, they thought of that!  They have a mechanism in place should your family decide it would be a good school project…check it out here.  They give you all of the tools to help get your school using a waste-free lunch system!
                                                           
Bored in the lunch department and looking for new ideas? Their website contains a lot of fabulous healthy and new ideas!  Also, the Laptop Lunch system comes with a fabulous little book with tons of healthy ideas that will work perfectly with your new lunch system.  It is great for sandwiches with sides, salads, sushi, wraps, dips, leftovers, fruit, veggies, etc…You can also sign up online for a monthle free enewsletter giving you great and healthy lunch ideas! 

This great company was founded by two mothers, Tammy Pelstring and Amy Hemmert who were concerned about the waste that was created in packing their kids’ lunches and also wanted a better system that would better allow them to pack healthy and nutritious lunches.  Wow, did they ever do it!  They have been featured on the Today Show, The Racheal Ray Show, Body and Soul Magazine, the LA Times and the Washington post,  and now on Mom Appeal—and there is good reason for it!  This is a quality, inventive and practical item to add to your eating-away-from-home plan!  Don’t just get one for the kids, this will make so many more food options available to your or your husband’s lunches away from home!

Mama Jen

Reusable bags from Envirosax

The Green Girl’s Guide is now selling the best in reusable bags—-they are so convenient, stylish, and good for the environment! 

These bags can hold up to twice the amount of your typical grocery bag, and have a SHOULDER STRAP which is huge…I just found myself running into the store with my large reusable bag with teeny tiny handles—throw in some potatos, onions and then pack it to the brim—well, it began to get quite hard to hold in my hand.  I could have really used this bag that has a shoulder strap.  It is also so convenient that it can be stashed in your purse when you fold it up.  How many times have I left the house without my reusable bag because it is hanging on the door knob in my laundry room…too many times!!

I believe this is the first time these bags are being sold stateside, so if you are interested in them and live in the US, shipping became a lot cheaper, and your bag doesn’t have to travel as far to get to you!

Use them for groceries, beach, ANYTHING!  These bags are ultra-light, fashionable, convenient and are soft on the environment.  Get yourself or a friend a pack of five stylin’ Envirosax at www.greengirlsguide.com Mama Jen

Green Girl’s Guide offers green tips—from a Mom’s perspective!

                    

I am always looking for ways to incorporate “green” into our family life and home. When I stumbled upon Green Girl’s Guide, a site run by Laura Mount and Karen Mount, I got pretty excited! These two moms are full of great tips that fit well into family life including “green finds of the week,” recipes, lists of eco-boutiques etc—all done without wagging a finger at you for how green or not green you may be—it is wonderfully conversational with the idea that we’re all in this together, here are some great tips we’d like to share! Love it!!!

Check it out…particularly this recent post on the lead content in hoses—scary!!! Alternatives are given, so you aren’t left concerned and trying to figure out which product is a better choice. Thanks moms! You do the research so we can  be informed and zero in on what is safest for our families and environment!

Soon they will be carrying the wonderful reusable Envirosax! We’ll be sure to give you a run-down on this great product and let you know when you can get your hands on one of these hip, multi-purpose reusable bags. 

Mama Jen

Health Coaching by Anke Johnson

Just a note for you to check out the newest fitness guru to enter our scene, Anke Johnson. Anke is an expert  Certified Health Coach who can help you with your total health plan…from incorporating organics, getting into a fitness routine, learning to deal with  your stressors and creating a non-toxic environment for your family—AND she’s a mom! (She can even collaborate with you via phone and email which is important for us parents who have a hard time getting away often.)

She is a dynamo, who is inspiring, easy to talk to, easy to relate to, and she really knows how to work with your personal health needs and goals effectively.

Check out  her bio on our Fit Mama tab as well as more information at www.naturalsolutionsbyanke.com

Word is that she and Dustin also have some plans to join their efforts at times!

giggle’s online boutique, egiggle is sure to please!

                                  

Ali Wing, giggle CEO and founder, always says “We do the homework so new parents can giggle.”  And giggle I did when I looked at all of the wonderful, unique, and chic items available at egiggle.com for new parents and their babies!  And they really do their homework—check out the giggle criteria for each product–what a snazzy way to inform consumers!

I requested a couple of items to see in person, and they are fabulous!! 
                         
I got the chance to check out the Decortive Wood Wall Panels (set of 4), and boy are they a treat!!  Covered in a wonderful modern pattern, they attach to any clean surface so that you can custom decorate your nursery or playroom!  I am a person who gets bored easily, so being able to change the pattern upon the wall is perfect for me! The older your child gets, they can have fun deciding where they want them placed on the wall too!

I also got to see two of the lovely aprons they carry for the mini-person in your life! 
                                
                          
The first one is by Mimi the Sardine, and it is adorable!!  Covered with cute little graphic bugs and an environmentally sound, non-toxic acrylic coating that meets the Oeko-Tex 100 Standard, it is permanently water and soil resistant—best thing—it is sooooo soft, and not at all stiff!! Wipe clean or machine wash! Great for your mini gardener!!
                                    

The second apron is the Organic Cotton Veggie apron by Under the Nile, and I wish you could feel just how soft it is!  This fair-traded organic product would be wonderful for your little gardener, or veggie washer!!

The fact that all of these wonderful high-end products are bundled together in one hip and chic store, and that the homework is done for you has loads of Mom Appeal!!  Mama Jen

Socially Conscious Organic Green T from Libellula Creations!!!

                                              

I just received this hip little organic tee-shirt for my daughter from Libellula Creations, and it is gorgeous in every way!!

First, this little gem came packaged in zebra-print tissue paper, sealed with an adorable sticker–good to know if you are planning on ordering something here as a gift for Angelina Jolie  and Brad Pitt’s next baby–AND, the shirt is 100% sweatshop free, 100% organic,made in the USA, and just adorable!

I wish I could have you feel this shirt!  So soft and gentle against my babes delicate skin…it also inspires smiles from all the Grease lovers out there which makes it sooo fun to have her wear it!

Our friends at the mama owned Libellula Creations have offered a very exciting perk to MomAppeal readers. Use the discount code mmap10 to save 10%! Also, free shipping for orders over $99. Thanks Libellula Creations!!!