Lunch box is a convenient and beautiful packaging for food, which can be taken with you to an educational institution, to work or on the road. This special container Americans came up with in the XX century, and already then he became popular. In boxes made of metal alloy or plastic, students and workers wore dinners. Outwardly, the first lunch boxes looked like small suitcases with handles and clasps, and children's containers were decorated with drawings with cartoon characters.
Today on the shelves of stores a huge number of different containers, containers and lunch boxes. Now it's fashionable to stick to a healthy diet, so fast food is already in the past. And students, schoolchildren and office workers grab a healthy home food. But it needs to be worn in something. How to choose a quality food container?
Choose a lunch box
When buying lunch boxes, you should pay attention to some points. Do not hesitate to sniff the containers right in the store. If the box has a sharp unpleasant smell, then it's made of poor-quality material. Also, it is necessary to carefully study the labeling, which is necessarily present on the containers intended for the products. It is important that the product is made exclusively from food plastic.
It should be remembered that it is impossible to put hot food in plastic containers. Under the influence of temperature they can easily lose shape. But cut fruits or vegetables, cold foods - no problem. It is quite another matter - glass lunch boxes. These are ideal storage tanks for food, they can even warm up the dishes in the microwave.
Care and storage
The lunch box should be washed immediately after eating, using soft sponges, detergents and running water. There are containers that have a label that allows washing in a dishwasher.
With regard to storage, it is best that all used containers are of different sizes and easily folded one into the other. So they take up less space in the kitchen cabinets.
Features of children's lunch boxes
For children bright and colorful lunch boxes with several separate sections are suitable. It is convenient and functional. When buying a baby container, you should first check how it closes. Tightly fitting( hermetically sealed) lid will allow for better preservation of the products, and the contents of the lunch box will never spoil the school supplies in the backpack or bag of the child.
How to fill a box for a snack, so that the student could support his forces in school? If it has several branches, then there must be at least three dishes. For example, in the largest compartment, a sandwich or sandwich will fit, and in those smaller - small and useful canapes on skewers, formed from pieces of vegetables and fruits. As a dessert, the baby can be offered a cottage cheese casserole, muffins or homemade biscuits.
In one of the departments must necessarily put a couple of sweets, then he will have dinner with even more pleasure. If the lunch box is roomy, the student will be able to share its contents with a neighbor on the desk. As a surprise, caring mothers put small notes in the container with a snack, like "Be smart," "Get today only high scores!", "I'm waiting for you at home with a good mood!"