Thinking Outside the Lunchbox

Dora the Explorer and Sponge Bob Square Pants lunchboxes are all well and good, but what could be cooler for school than a multicolored melamine bento box? Speaking of sustainable (never a non sequitur these days), the separate washable compartments do away with the need for ziploc baggies and other wasteful storage stuff. The square, 3 compartment model runs 36 bucks at the most excellent store Plastica.
--Hugh

Comments

[Nicholas Pospishil]

Cool design; however the individual compartments can't be placed in a microwave.

[Kiim]

My kids have typical lunchboxes, but I often use a an old Tupperware system designed for freezing homemade hamburgers as a mini version of what's pictured above. I can pack a handful of grapes in one, carrots with a bit of dressing in the next, and a few pretzels or chips in another. They fit together nicely and still leave room in the lunchbox for a main course and a drink.