I pack my lunches and snacks a LOT. Packing your food has many benefits. It’s a great way to make sure you’re eating healthy and it helps you stay focused in class or at work instead of being distracted by hunger pangs. I take small containers of food with me everywhere I go. They're helpful while traveling or even in your purse while you're out and about. It saves money, too!
I was at Old Navy for some of their great workout clothes when I found all this food storage in the kids’ section. My initial thought was, “Old Navy sells Tupperware?” This was quickly followed by intrigue as I inspected each kind of Tupperware they sold. It’s probably lame that I felt like I was winning the jackpot while looking at all of these containers, but maybe you’ll see what I was getting at when you look at the pictures.
Here's an overview: On the left is a sandwich container and the one on the far right is just another little container for any kind of snack. The middle three are a bit more impressive, so I explain them in the picture below:
On the left is a container with a removable section that is a little less than 1/3 of the whole container. Attached to the bottom of the removable part is a spoon that you make by sticking two pieces together. This type of container would be perfect for something like yogurt and granola. Put the yogurt in the bottom, the granola in the removable section, and there's already a spoon! Another good combo for it would be vegetables and hummus.
The container at the bottom of the picture is a whole set of eating utensils just like the one I described! BUT, instead of just making a spoon, you can make a spoon, knife, fork, and even chopsticks! To make the spoon, fork, or knife, you put one of the blue sticks with one of the green pieces. To make the chopsticks, you just put all of the blue pieces together. It's great! I also just used this in my carry on while traveling. It worked out so well. I removed the knife part, though. I wasn't sure what TSA would do so I left that part behind.
The container on the left is a lunch cube. It opens up to two sections: one large section where you could put a sandwich or maybe greens for a salad, and another section that splits in to two more sections (if you made a salad with this, you could put vegetables and chicken in the other sections, or put other foods you'd want with a sandwich in it).
I went grocery shopping the other day and found that this same brand of food storage (Sistema) was at my local store. So, I picked up a slightly different lunch cube that would has a place for smaller foods and even a little cup for dressing or hummus (whatever you'd like).
And, no judgement on this last one. But heck, most of this stuff was from the kids' section...
Let me know in the comments if you pack your food, too! Or what you use to pack it. Have a great week, everybody!
