Lettuce Quote You

Do your children have a heartfelt/funny/poignant/pithy way of saying "thank you" to the world for protecting our environment for their future? If so, type it up and send it to Earthbound Farm, which just launched a contest on its site seeking the best kid quotes.

If picked, the kid quote will appear on the inside of Earthbound Farm's clamshell salad label. Each child also will receive a $500 U.S. Savings Bond for future education, and a $500 donation will be made in your child's name to his or her choice from a select group of environmental nonprofits, including Healthy Child Healthy World and the Organic Farming Research Foundation. Four winners will be selected in July and then a new winner will be picked each month through 2009.

And just so you can feel good about those 50 salads you'll be buying if your child's quote is selected, Earthbound switched to a post-consumer recycled plastic for its containers.

However, I'd be thankful if I could get my kids – OK, me – to eat more salad ...