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Retro-grade school lunch boxes

Your kid will be the coolest cat in the cafeteria with these old-school lunchboxes.

By Joanna Batt

Retro-grade school lunch boxes
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Photo: Martha Williams
08/04/2010

Muppet mania
It’s hard not to love a green felt frog with ping- pong ball eyes. And kids will have fun miss-piggying out on whatever you put inside this lovable tin. $13.95 at catchingfireflies.com.

Ah-one, ah t-hoo, ah-tha-three!
This image from the old-school Tootsie Pop commercial will remind your kid that it takes more than three bites to finish his sandwich. $12.95 at lunchboxes.com.

Hey! Ho! Let’s go (to lunch)
An almost-too-cool-for-school black-and-white tin will have your kid blitzkrieging to the cafeteria table. $17.95 at lunchboxes.com.

Orange you hungry?
You will be if your midday fixings are boxed up in this juicy little number. $14.50 at The Red Balloon (2060 N Damen Ave, 773-489-9800; 5407 N Clark St, 773-989-8500; theredballoon.com).

Allergy-free Peanuts
Your hungry kiddo will crave this Charlie Brown lunch set from the 1970s, complete with an old-timey drink thermos and cute-as-can-be illustrations of everyone’s favorite cartoon gang. $33 at Quake Collectibles (4628 N Lincoln Ave, 773-878-4288).

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August 4, 2010
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