Our new lunchboxes

We have been packing our lunches to work for every workday for the past 3 years. And recently, it dawn on us that the plastic boxes that we are using ain't BPA free and i have been looking to replace our lunch boxes. We are looking to replace them with glass ones for the various reasons:

1) Heat soup longer without the plastic box warping
We try to have soup once a week as part of our healthier diet, and soup taste better when it's warm/ hot. Now, if you have tried heating soup using plastic boxes in microwave, you will know that sometimes, if you overheat, the plastic box actually warps out of shape.

2) Easier to wash oily glass than oily plastic
Yep, it's easier to wash off the oil off glass than plastic. Sometimes, we scrub 4 times and the plastic still feels oily and we have to sit the box in soapy water overnight.

With the above in mind, we started looking for new lunchboxes.

1) Thermos
Now, i know this is not glass, but one of our friend highly recommend Thermos. But nay... It's difficult to try to microwave food stored in Thermos, since you have to pour the food out first.

2) Pyrex glass containers.
Now, you can always find these on promotion and they come with plastic lids. Seems like a good fit for our requirement. But the problem with the lids is, they ain't super tight, and you may spill soups, etc..

3) Lock And Lock glass containers.
We own a few Lock and lock plastic containers, which are BPA free of course. We just found out they do have glass containers with the lock and lock lids. Now, that seems like a winner except that they are a little pricer compared to Pyrex.

And it so happened, there was a promotion at http://www.locknlockplace.com and all my girlfriends jumped and bought new glass containers. I did too.. And we have been loving them, since we started using them.

See no spillage:

I had oats with soya milk which i cooked and pack it to work. Yup, it's still warm and i can enjoy yummy and healthy oats as i start my day at work.


Can you guess what i'm having for lunch?


Yep, Herbal chicken soup that was leftover from last friday dinner. Oh yes, it's duper yummy and healthy. We packed the leftover into the boxes and into the fridge, and later it went straight into the microwave.

I loved our new lunch boxes from locknlock so much, that i have signed up to be a locknlock supporter. So look out for more posts from me about these products.

Yup, it saves $ to pack your own lunch and you can definitely eat healthier too. And it ain't troublesome or messy to pack soup with these boxes.

More reading about BPA at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A