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