I HATE it when I get to school, settle into my desk, open up my backpack, and find that my lunch has leaked. Usually, I wrap my food container in a plastic bag, but sometimes even that can end up gross if I pack something with a decent amount of liquid.
Another difficult thing is that glass containers can be so heavy that I feel like I'm going on a week-long hiking trip. An alternative is plastic containers, but those get all weird/scary/chemically when put in the microwave.
One last annoying thing: storage. I hate it when we have a hodgepodge of containers and they don't stack neatly in the drawer. Then we have lids going all over the place and it's just too stressful.
BUT!! Steve and I just bought the most exciting food containers! They are glass, but not super-duper heavy. Also, unlike the stupid Pyrex containers, these lids seal! Stupid Pyrex doesn't even try. It doesn't even care if it gets foodstuffs all over my notebooks. Then, I can get to school with a nice dry backpack, snap off the sealed lid, and put my food in the microwave. Heck, I could even put it in the oven...but actually...not, since we don't have one at school. Then I can bring the containers back home, wash them in the dishwasher (even the lid is top-rack safe), and store them. The beautiful part is the storage. They're like Matryoshka dolls. Put the lid on the little one, stick it in a bigger one, put the lid on that, and just keep on going. So many containers in so little space! And there are all these different shapes to suit your mood: square, circle, rectangle, awesome.
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| there are three containers in there! can you see the edges? |
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| three circles, two squares, two rectangles (more not pictured) |