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Grown-up lunch boxes | H is for Home

If you’re about our age – i.e. you grew up in the 70s & 80s – you may have had one of those metal lunch kits that you carried to school each day. What do you do now that you’re an adult? Sure, you could re-purpose an old ice cream container to accommodate your mixed salad. Or you could use the bag that your loaf of bread came in to carry your egg mayo sandwiches.

Doesn’t your carefully prepared packed lunch deserve better than that? Wouldn’t you rather punctuate your working day with something more pleasing to the eye as well as the palate? We’ve chosen a trio of grown-up lunch boxes that you’d be proud to pull out from your work bag when you arrive at the office in the morning.

My favourite of the three is the Zero Waste set. The ‘paper bag’ lunch holder is actually made from Tyvek, a lightweight, water-resistant, breathable material that is 100% recyclable. The flask is bamboo on the outside and stainless steel on the interior. The cutlery (knife, fork, spoon and chopsticks) is made of bamboo and there’s also a stainless steel drinking straw.

  1. Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box: £10.00, Amazon
  2. Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup: £40.00, NOTHS
  3. Alessi Food À Porter lunch box: £44.00, John Lewis

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Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
£44.00
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
£40.00
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
£10.00
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
£44.00
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
£40.00
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
£10.00
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
£44.00
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
£40.00
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
£10.00
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
£44.00
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
£40.00
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
£10.00
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
Alessi Food À Porter lunch box
£44.00
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
Zero Waste lunch kit by Global WAKEcup
£40.00
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
Sass & Belle My Kind of People bamboo lunch box
£10.00

Viva Vegetables

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Viva Vegetables medium tote bags

Win one of these gorgeous tote bags – they’re from the Viva Vegetables range, one of the new Spring 2015 collections from the folks at Talented.

Even if you’re a complete carnivore, you’ll love this quirky range of colourful canvas bags. They’re both attractive and versatile.

Talented is an eco-company based in Sheffield specialising in creatively driven, sustainable accessories and tote bags. The brand celebrates the bag as an art form and collaborates with upcoming British artists, designers and print makers on a seasonal rotation.

Viva Vegetables is designed by American crafter Leslie Astor who now lives here in the UK. Leslie’s four designs pay homage to a few of Britain’s favourite vegetables. Large-scale prints of broccoli, carrots, beetroot and asparagus adorn the colourfully dyed canvas tote bags. Viva Vegetables small tote bags

The collection is inspired by the farmers’ market at Grand Army Plaza in New York City. When Leslie lived in Brooklyn, she and her family would visit the market every Saturday.

Leslie said:

“A tote bag gets out and about and exposed to a lot of eyes in a lot of different contexts: the subway, the office, the grocery store, the park – maybe all of those places in a day. Given that fact, I wanted my series of totes to be conversation starters, and I think they are.”

Viva Vegetables are made and printed at a fair-trade certified factory in India and are available in 2 sizes – medium tote bag and mini tote bag. They’re available to buy from the doodle bag website.

For your chance to win one, just comment below telling us which size & design you’d like and how you’d use it. To carry your lunch to work? A school bag for your child? To pop to the shops? Something else entirely? 🙂

Viva Vegetables tote bag