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By Brodie Cowburn
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reating a plastic-free lifestyle certainly isn’t easy, but it’s a project of passion for Rye entrepreneurs Jodie Read and Sarah Fitzgerald.
Rainebeau is a lunchbox company started by Jodie and Sarah that is determined to make a difference. The company was started with the hope of streamlining the morning rush by creating functional, eco-friendly, and unique lunchboxes, and has since grown to help promote the important cause of helping to cut down on plastic pollution. Co-owner Jodie Read said that the lunchboxes encourage healthy lifestyles, add ease to the busy mornings, and have a positive effect on removing plastic from lunches.
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“As a dietician I was always looking at ways to support healthy eating, and then I had children and that thought process continued. I was always thinking about tools I could use to encourage their healthy eating. My youngest started school a few years ago and they had a wrapper-free policy, and I was really passionate about unpackaged food. I found there weren’t many products on the market that made this easy. Every morning I’d have to pack away lots of different containers into a lunch bag, and it was a total mess,” she said. “When we finally put the product together we tested them out and that was continued next page...