lunch box
Practical, aesthetic and environmentally friendly, the lunch box allows you to reduce your waste while avoiding food waste. Rather than buying junk food for your lunch break, you eat your home-cooked meals and save money.
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The advantages of take-out meal boxes
The lunch box has many advantages, starting with its practicality. Perfectly waterproof, it is designed to be easily transported. It slips into a bag and follows you wherever you go, whether it's to go to the office, take the road on vacation or go on a picnic.
Thanks to the lunch box, you take care of both your health and the environment. Do you have the habit, for lack of time, of going to buy an industrial dish during your lunch break? All these dishes are packaged in single-use packaging and generate a large amount of waste. In addition, they are often full of additives, flavor enhancers, and provide excessive intakes of fat, sugar and salt.
With the meal box, you can prepare your homemade meals the day before, using good products and healthy recipes. You reduce waste, but also food waste. Indeed, rather than letting leftovers get lost in the fridge, you just have to cook a more hearty dinner and take the extra portion with you the next day at noon.
If you have several meal boxes, you can also start batch cooking. This method consists, during a rest day, in preparing all your lunches or dinners for the week in a single cooking session of 2 or 3 hours. You lighten your mental load for the whole week and save considerable time. In addition, you save money: industrial meals are expensive, and represent a significant monthly expense when consumed at each lunch break.
How to choose a lunch box?
Form and capacity
Lunch boxes can be more or less compact depending on your needs and the type of meal transported. For a complete meal, whether vegetarian, vegan, meat or a fish dish, the diameter of the box should be sufficient – around 15 cm – to allow you to eat comfortably.
There are also compact lunch boxes, which are taller than they are wide, which are ideal for transporting soups or smoothies. A 600ml capacity is perfect for a soup, while a larger capacity of around 850ml is more suitable for a full meal.
Crafting material
Stainless steel is the reference material for utensils intended to be in prolonged contact with food or drink. 18/8 stainless steel, which contains, in addition to iron and carbon, 18% chromium and 8% nickel, just like 18/10 stainless steel, containing 18% chromium and 10% nickel, are both High quality. They perfectly resist corrosion and do not alter the taste of food.
The stainless steel lunch boxes are designed without internal coating. They therefore do not contain any substances harmful to the body.
Isothermal or not?
The insulated lunch boxes, thanks to their double wall separated by an air gap, keep your food hot for 5 hours and cold for 7 hours. They are perfectly suitable if you do not have the time or the technical possibility to reheat your dish. In the middle of summer, they allow you to take full advantage of the freshness of your mixed salads or your gazpachos.
Does your workplace have an equipped kitchen? You can opt for a recycled stainless steel catering box. The material of construction is specially designed to be microwaveable. In 1 to 2 minutes, your dish is hot and ready to eat. This lunch box is not insulated, but its single wall makes it lighter.
Accessories and practical details
Some lunch boxes can be supplemented with accessories, in particular a compartment with a handle that forms an additional floor. You can place, for example, a starter of raw vegetables or a few pieces of bread to complete your meal without these foods coming into contact with the main dish.
Several practical details also make it possible to optimize the use of your lunch box. It can thus be equipped with a carrying handle and a non-slip base. The presence of a silicone seal is essential to ensure the tightness of your box.