We have added the LunchBots, the ECOlunchbox and a whole range of insulated lunch bags from Built NY. Click on the links to check out how funky they are!

Day 4, and we’ve gone walking EVERY morning before work. I’m so glad I’m getting up early each morning and going for a walk before work, I feel so much better for it now.

Today I even took the dogs with me, and trust me, it was a fun experience when they’ve never learnt to heal on a lead! (thanks James). I have now gone and bought short dog leads from Pet Barn today and getting the dogs to heal should be a little easier tomorrow. Stay tuned.

It’s a fairly comprehensive guide to all the bpa free baby bottles we sell at Shop Naturally, with little hints and bits of information about which bottle is best suited for your needs. We’re giving away a Green to Grow Welcome Home set this month and next month we’ll be giving away the new Earthlust Birds & Bees insulated baby bottles.

We will be adding a couple of new brands over the next few weeks, and will soon have the most comprehensive selection on the market. For now, we have deliberately chosen not to stock the Avent bottles and the Tommee Tippee, because every chemist shop & supermarket we walked in to had them on the shelves already, tossed loosely amongst a large pile of toxic polycarbonate and cheap flimsy crap! Luckily they’re marked BPA Free or you’d never know what you were getting.

If you’re wondering why you should choose BPA Free Baby bottles, basically, BPA is an endocrine disruptor and it can screw with your childs hormonal development, especially if you’re putting plastic bottles in the microwave.

On another totally unrelated note, anyone want to get grubby this afternoon? I’m off to help run the CCTRI offroad duathlon.

I had a customer write to me today and say “We are so impressed with the water flow rate with the sports 2 cap that one for each of the family in a couple of different sizes would be great for different situations.” Then she proceeded to give me a wish list of the new coloured bottles for our next stock order.

See, I’m not the only person who thinks the Klean Kanteen Bottles have the best sports cap on the market. Getting feedback like this makes the long hours slaving away at the computer worth all the effort (and the sales help pay for my new glasses!)

If you’re after an aluminium water bottle instead of the gazillion stainless steel water bottles we sell, the best brand is SIGG. I personally think they’re a little pricey for what they are, but they’re cute, so who cares! Buy your SIGG from Kitchenware Direct. They have the best prices on SIGG we’ve been able to buy online.

If you’re worried about the whole BPA in the linings thing, SIGG used to have BPA in their lining, but not anymore. As long as you’re buying a new one now from someone reputable, it will be fine. If you have an old SIGG bottle, you might want to do a bit of research. Apparently if the lining looks like a copper colour, its’ the old one, a pale cream colour, the new ones, but check with SIGG directly just to make sure.

One of my favourite haunts is Home Couture. They have every possible cute little knick knack you could ever want for your kitchen and so much great stuff you’ll never come across in shops. Visit this site at your own risk, you’ll get addicted to it, trust me!

Freez Clothing in Sydney are one of the biggest Ladakh stockists around, and have two shops, but alas, I don’t live in Sydney. Luckily, they have an online shop and they have pretty much the entire range of Ladakh online.

If the thought of buying clothes online freaks you out, don’t worry, Freez will let you return products and swap the sizes or even just get a credit and pick something else.

We saw so many inferior lunch boxes that just had slip on lids like those dodgy looking biscuit tins you get from the supermarket at Christmas time, we passed on all of them. The ECO Lunch Box has two clips to keep the lid firmly in place + a bonus round tub with a bpa free plastic leak-proof lid for salad, yoghurt, dessert, whatever you like. None of the others have the bonus round tub.

RRP on the ECO Lunch Box is $26,95. When we compared it with the Lunch Bots that are at least 3 dollars dearer with no sturdy clips to keep the lid on and no bonus round tub, it wasn’t a hard decision to make to choose the ECO Lunch Box as our Stainless Steel Lunch Box choice.

Great value, great quality & in January, in conjunction with KidSpot, we’re giving away almost $500 worth of Back To School products, and the ECO Lunch Box is in the prize. Make sure you visit www.shopnaturally.com.au to enter.