Favourite way to package your lunch foods?

I have a few sets of Rubbermaid containers. I have sandwich shaped, round salad sized, smaller containers for fruit, yogurt or treats. We also have several thermoses. A big thermos that dh brings to work full of coffee. Smaller ones that I would bring to work full of hot water with a ziploc or small containers of tea bags. We also have 2 thermoses that carry pasta/soups/stews/chilli. Everyone has a refillable water bottle and we have several travel Contigo cups. Thermoses are freaking expensive!! We've tried the cheaper ones and they just don't work. These last a long time.

I just bought dd a Rubbermaid container set last week at our local Walmart. It was under $10 for a 20 piece set of lunch sized containers. She wants to pack her own lunch for school when she moves away.

New job Karin?

We've used the Laptop Lunches boxes for the last...um...6 years or so. I'm not 100% sure that's what I'd use if I were just starting out now, but it's what we have and I have several containers so it isn't worth switching. That having been said, I have no objections to them, but there are now cheaper alternatives out there.

Lock & Lock all the way, baby. Have them in many sizes. I use the square one-cups a ton, usually for fruit.

bento boxes... seen stainless steel ones too

This past month I've been switching out my plastic Tupperware / Rubbermaid stuff for glass containers.  No more stained stuff from heating food in it and I don't have to worry if I'm ingesting plastic residue. I've been switching to Pyrex with microwave safe lids and Rubbermade glassware.

Another vote for the Laptop Lunch brand of containers. We have quite a few from when my kids were in elementary school. My anal nature loves how they all fit so neatly into the carrying box. When we travel, we often pack a stack of them with a variety of healthy food as snacks and an alternative to fast food.

I recently bought this cute microwave bowl. It's supposed to be for noodles but I put lots of different stuff in there, mainly leftovers. I also have another green one the same brand that is taller and skinnier, for soup.



If I'm having a sandwich or wrap I just wrap it in cling film and carry it in a shopping bag.

I usually just use whatever I have on hand, but am looking for something new. My main issue is keeping food the temp that I want it to be. I drive around a lot for work and usually am eating in my car. In the winter, everything gets too cold and the rest of the year it won't stay cold. I have various thermal bags and thermos food containers, but none seem to work all that well with such drastic temps.

I use a mix of items. Some of it is re-claimed previous food purchases like Panda Express bowls and the little bowls used by KFC have tight fitting lids. I wash and reuse those. I also re-use the tubs my shredded parm comes in. I don't mind if these end up forgotten in the car and are better off just tossed instead of cleaned again.

I use zip lock baggies and some plastic bowls I found at a grocery store with screw on lids for (3 bowls for $4) I also have some lock and lock. But I am lucky enough to have a fridge to store my lunch until meal time and a microwave to heat it before eating.

I've migraged to the pyrex glass containers. I won't heat anything in plastic anymore though I'm sure the "damage" is already done at this point. I have a MaxCold cooler. I love it. Keeps things cold for quite a while.