Today's lunch

[pegkerr]

Egg salad sandwich on wheat bread; yogurt mixed with pumpkin and maple syrup; homemade peach pie with rolled oats crumble topping. Recipe from The Moosewood Cookbook; fresh beets and onions, oven-roasted in balsamic vinegar.

Comments

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a nice set! Obscenely expensive, though. $44 for 4 tupperware containers and a nylon carry sack???

I keep trying to assemble a set like this myself, and never find a set of containers just the right dimensions.

The biggest problem I have with all of these plastic lunch sets is odor. Richard cooks with a lot of garlic, onions, and curry spices. When I put leftovers into plastic containers, they pick up smells that I just can't get out. The one lidded Laptop Lunch container was particularly bad, which is the main reason I stopped using that set (that and the broken zipper on the case). Do you have any special tricks for cleaning these things?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

The Lunchsense set says that the cover can be thrown right into the washing machine.

You might check to see if it can be found at a local co-op. I bought the Laptop Lunchbox at a local co-op for 1/2 the price it was on the website; that may be true of other lunchboxes like the Lunchsense one.

I've never used the case for the Laptop Lunchbox myself--I just carry the box in my gym bag. As for odor in the plastic containers themselves, I've found that if I have a tough odor or stain that making a thick paste of baking soda and water and spreading it in the bottom and letting it sit over night and then cleaning it the next day pretty much took care of any odor or stain. I also find that if I'm putting something in that is likely to stain (like curry or chili or tomato) that it helps to coat the inside of the container with a spritz of cooking spray before I put the food in.