Noonbox
Durham, NC · school year 2026–27

Lunch they’ll actually eat.

Made fresh this morning, in their bag by the first bell. You get the 7am back, and they get a lunch that isn’t three crackers and a slice of processed cheese.

From $7.20 a day · nut-free kitchen · skip any week, free

Five compartments. Home again tomorrow, washed.

What you get

Four things that make it work.

Made this morning

Packed between 5am and 7am, not assembled last week and frozen. Fruit and a vegetable in every single box.

School, door or counter

To the school office before the first bell, to your door by 7:15am, or waiting for pickup from 7am. Your call each week.

Nothing needs heating

There is no microwave at school, so nothing here asks for one. Every box is built to be eaten cold, with hands, hours after it was packed.

Nothing to commit to

No membership and no minimum. Skip a week free by Thursday, change boxes whenever, stop entirely without a phone call.

What it costs

Cheaper by the week. Cheapest to a school.

No membership, no joining fee, nothing that quietly renews. Skip a week, change a box, or stop entirely by the Thursday cutoff.

One box

$8.50

per box, pickup or delivery

  • Any box on the menu
  • Order up to Thursday 6pm
  • Pickup free, delivery $4
Try one
Most families

The week

$38

five boxes — $7.60 a day

  • Mix any five boxes
  • Delivery included
  • Skip any week, free
  • Trays collected and washed
Start a week

School route

$36

five boxes — $7.20 a day

  • Delivered to the school
  • Needs 10 children at that school
  • One invoice, or pay per family
  • Named and labelled per child
How routes work

Add to any box

+$1.50  Extra fruit +$1.75  Bakery treat +$1.25  Milk or juice +$2.00  Double protein
How it works

Order Thursday. Eat all week.

1

Pick the week

Choose five boxes, or one. Tell us about allergies here, not later.

2

Thursday 6pm

For the week after. We shop on Friday, so it is a real deadline rather than a polite one.

3

Made that morning

Packed cold between 5am and 7am, straight into a chilled bag.

4

It turns up

School office before the bell, your door by 7:15am, or the counter from 7am.

For schools & PTAs

Ten kids opens a route.

Once ten children at one school are signed up, that school becomes a stop and every family on it drops to $7.20 a day. Boxes arrive in one labelled cooler before the first bell, each one named. Nobody at the school hands out anything or handles money.

One delivery, one cooler

To the front office at a time you set. Trays come back on the next delivery, so there is nothing to store and nothing to throw away.

Billing that isn’t your problem

Families pay us directly, or the school takes one invoice a month — whichever the office prefers. No cash, no envelopes, no chasing.

Your food policy, not ours

Send us the school’s rules and we will work to them, or tell you honestly that we cannot. Nut-free is how the kitchen already runs.

Start a route at your school
Questions

The ones parents actually ask.

My child has an allergy. Can you feed them?

Tell us at sign-up and we will give you a straight answer. The kitchen is nut-free and every box lists what it contains. Where we cannot safely work around an allergy we will say so rather than take the order — a better outcome for everyone than finding out on a Tuesday.

How long does it keep?

Boxes are packed cold in the morning and are good through a normal school lunch period. Send it in with an ice pack if the bag sits somewhere warm — we give you one on the first delivery.

Does any of it need heating up?

No. There is no microwave at school, so every box is designed to be eaten cold, straight out of the tray, with no instructions for a seven-year-old to follow.

What if we are away, or they are off sick?

Skip the week by Thursday 6pm and you are not charged. Sick on the day is harder — the food is already made — so we hold it for pickup or drop it home that afternoon, your call.

Do we have to commit to anything?

No. No membership, no minimum number of weeks. Order a single box to see whether your child eats it before you order five.

What happens to the trays?

They come back to school or to your door with the next delivery and we wash them. On a one-off box, keep it — it is yours.

Where do you deliver?

Durham, and schools within it. If you are just outside, ask — routes grow where the children are, and a street we do not cover today may be on a route next month.

Next week

Get the 7am back.

Cut-off is Thursday at 6pm. Tell us the school, the boxes, and anything your child cannot eat.

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