I'm Biggie: avid cook, speedy lunch packer, mom in San Francisco, & former expat fluent in Japanese. 
« « Orzo salad x 3 | Main | Dashimaki tamago x 3 bentos » »
Salad & lasagna lunches x 2
Today I’m trying out two different Fit & Fresh lunch containers with built-in cold packs for carrying salads.
This container is designed to keep soups hot in the top section (insulated and microwaveable 12 fl. oz. bowl), and two cups of salad cold in the bottom (cold pack in the lid, which also has a built-in 2Tb dressing dispenser). The lunch itself is warm lasagna a friend made us with Italian sausage and portobello mushrooms (and extra sauce), and the salad is red leaf lettuce, cherry tomatoes, mangoes, Swiss cheese, pine nuts and green onions with ranch dressing. X-posted to the bentolunch community & Flickr.
It fits together and has a strap similar to the Mr. Bento-type lunch jars, but is much lighter. Utensil holder is on the carry strap. This is a pretty good size and weight, but I think my husband is going to be embarassed carrying this on the subway (time to think about what I can rig up as a carrying case). (EDIT: I can’t recommend this product as the ice ring broke the second time I used it. Others on Amazon report the same problem — bad ice ring design. Too bad, it was an ingenious concept.)
Holding four cups of salad, it’s pretty huge (too much for me). Next time I’ll try packing a side dish and slice of bread inside the container. It’s also heavy because of the large cold pack in the lid and 4Tb dressing dispenser. I can see this being more useful for picnics where I’d pack salad for multiple people.
It also comes with a plastic spork and knife that I’ll probably replace with something nicer.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
August 7th, 2006 | Categories: equipment, food jar, meat, pasta or noodles, salad, thermal lunch jar | 
Print This Post
| 
Email this post
« « Orzo salad x 3 | Main | Dashimaki tamago x 3 bentos » »
8 Responses to “Salad & lasagna lunches x 2”
Leave a Comment
« « Orzo salad x 3 | Main | Dashimaki tamago x 3 bentos » »
Loading ...
August 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
I like the utensil section on the bento box
very convenient. The salad looks amazingly delicious!
August 7th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
I had a container from that same line of products. I made a Flickr group dedicated to it but since I gave it to my sister, I can’t post in it anymore. So now the group is pretty much empty… ;_;
August 7th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Just posted these to that group — thanks for mentioning it! I don’t think I’ll be using the big salad container all that much, but maybe the red one…
August 7th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Thank you! I like boxes with built-in places for utensils; sadly, not many of my boxes have them…
August 7th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Yes, my bento boxes usually just have a pair of chopsticks in their lid or I’ll carry an utensil set with me (the ones with a spoon, fork and chopsticks). Btw is it OK if I ad you as a friend?
August 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Sure!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Thanks for linking these in your recent post about the cheap Target lunch containers. I just took these 2 Fit & Fresh items off my Kaboodle wish list.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
@7 from Kat: Good call on taking them off of your wish list, I think — although I was really excited about them when I bought them, I was really let down by their performance.