LaLa Lunchbox App Reviews

Thank you!!

Easy to use and customize, and my kids love it. Eliminates the tedium of "what do you want for lunch today?" and the kids are increasingly using the app to help them pack their own lunches. One suggestion for improvement -- make switching to the list view for each day easier. The existing button is teeny.

Easy to use and fun. I like that you can add your own items, with your own pictures. I wish the snack section was called grains, to better keep track of food groups. Another nice feature to add might be a sandwich builder, to help keep track of toppings for the grocery list:)

I must be the only one not impressed with this app. I suppose I thought it did more as far as nutrition went. Instead of having it set at what they should have nutritionally at each meal (also by adding the childs age to adjust to their needs), you just change the total number of items in the lunchbox. Also, the foods listed are so limiting. We eat lots of vegetables in our house, and most of them arent listed. Sure I can sit there and program them all in, but I dont have time. The monster idea is cute, the app Itself is setup very nice. I just wish it functioned more in making sure the child gets what they need put into their boxes. I would use this not only for lunch, but every meal. As of now, I have yet to use it. :/

Makes packing lunches easier and lets my 7 year old feel like she has some sort of control over the process.

Great app and very helpful when trying to plan meals for the kids ahead of time.

My kids and I love this app! I let the kids pick their lunches each week as we go through all the different food options. The best part is that it gives us ideas for foods we never wouldve thought about. I am much more organized with my grocery shopping, and I dont waste food, because I know the kids will eat what Ive packed them - and food doesnt get lost in the fridge!! Thanks for helping me organize and keeping my kids healthy!

Great app for helping make the daily question of what to make easier but it does not refresh ideas so you could eventually tire of the options.

I just downloaded this app and the breakfast one too. Its not my kids stuck in a rut of what to eat -its me of what to feed them. They have iPod touches and I think if they put their choices on their touch itll sync to my phone. (If I remember the describe I briefly scanned it said sync between devices - oooh I hope so!) Too have a shopping list too. Same problem with breakfast as with lunch! $.99 each is well worth giving it a try. I added my own lunchbox. I need inspiration too. Upon playing with my lunchbox its beautifully done. Clean easy ui and great food pictures. I almost want to wake my kids up to show them. Update a few days later: still loving this Ive added a user called Dinner. My children have added a user called Dessert. We are taking pictures of meals (when we remember) that are our dinner favorites that are not in here. Oh found out the .$99 sale is thru August if I remember correctly. Both the breakfast app and the lunch app are great. Ive requested a dinner app from the developer! I definitely do NOT want the apps combined. My only other request would be that the food data bases are shared with all three apps, like the grocery lists. Each having theses categories : produce, protein, starches, snacks/treats For example left overs from dinner are a popular breakfast item and 90% of the time my children choose to have their treat for the day after breakfast.

This is a well-thought and well-designed app that will make my life easier. I love that the choices are healthy, that I can add foods, and that my techo-geek kid can be involved with the lunch planning process.

Looks like this will help us get out of the rut of what to make for lunch. I like that it also helps to choose a balanced meal.

So far so good, just started using today. Makes it easy to plan the week on your shopping day. Needs 2 things: a place for the drink selection and a place for notes like "dont forget to add the ice pack" or "pack change to buy a milk at school" - that would be very helpful for the next update.

Great for my son to help with lunches and I dont have to think about WHAT to put in his lunch. That sometimes is the hardest part for some reason. ;) wish there was one of these for dinners too!

Love it. I have four girls and I make all their lunches for school. This app organizes their lunches for the week. Great app!!

I dont know about you, but when I wake up in the morning I kind of mess around. And sometimes I dont have time to plan out my lunch in the morning, I use this app at night and plan everything out. And then in the morning I just packed my lunch, It is definitely worth the price.

kids love it and i love it, makes the mornings so much easier! Would LOVE the option to swipe up to switch between kids. Right now when making lunch, have to choose kid, find day, switch to list mode, then go back and do the same thing for the next kid. I would love to be in list mode for that day and be able to swipe up or down to switch kids, please add this feature!

Great idea with a lot of promise. I was trying out the lunch app with interest in the breakfast app. Couple big shortcomings, so it wont be useful for me until addressed. 1) after you add a food you cant edit it. I discovered this after I entered a bunch of things and realized 2) only about 10 characters display in the lunchbox. Annoying (how do you distinguish between plain applesauce, cinnamon applesauce, and berry applesauce? In 10 characters in a way kids could understand?) but I might couldve figured how to solve that. Except per #1 I couldnt simply edit, I had to re-enter a new item and disable previous. Thats also about the time I realized 3) once youve selected something to put in the lunchbox it only shows the pic and not the label. Again an annoyance. (Except who has time to find/make every item to take a pic before adding it?) And if you mess up you cant change it.

I love the concept. Unfortunately, once a custom item is entered, it cant be edited. I wanted to add a photo later and couldnt. On another one, I didnt get to change category before choosing a pic from my library. It was saved automatically in the wrong category, which cannot be edited. It would also be better if user could limit how many items from each category a child can pick. I dont want my child picking only 4 snacks or no protein. If I have to verbally restrict what they choose as theyre doing it, Im losing out on the fun of the app for them.

Great concept and easy to use. You can add pictures of your own items also.

We have used this app since school started at the end of August. Since updating to ios8 it wont save meals and the grocery check off is not working. I touch one item and it blanks out the whole list or it marks of another item above or below the one I selected. Hope this is fixed soon my boys like planning their meals for school.