Lunch Box

[tdjohnsn]

So, we have matching lunch boxes. They are in fact, the "Remake the Heat-wave" collapsable coolers we got at convention a couple years ago. They fit our needs perfectly in terms of size and pockets and so forth.

We take everything—lunch, breakfast, snacks, etc—for the day in plastic containers, but sometimes they leak. Applesauce for instance can leak out of anything. Therein lies the problem. The collapsable lunch boxes are reinforced by a stiff flap in the bottom under which all the escaped juices and condensation collect. Can you say Anaerobic? It smells bad too.

So, Sunday we drive up to the big Fred Meyer in Ballard to see about getting lunch boxes that don't have hidden spaces, and are easier to clean than our current ones. It turns out that aside from a few sad and generic kids lunch boxes, they don't carry any. "Lunchboxes," we were informed, "are a seasonal item." They only carry them at back-to-school time. Even the adult ones.

Okay then.

Comments

[enhydrasf.livejournal.com]

amazon.com had quite a few selections

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I never thought of looking on amazon. some of those look perfect!

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

I like the new icon! It's yummy. But I guess that's because of the subject.

I don't still have a RTHW cooler, but I do still have the tote bag, which has become a handy repository for the books and binder I use when I play piano for English dancing. That's a recent development, and a good one, because goodness knows I could use a more reliable method of filing all my various bits of music and crap!

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I use my tote bag for carrying around all the puddletown club stuff from dance to dance.

Seasonal things...

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

I went to a shoe store last July looking for a new pair of bedroom slippers. Seasonal I was told. How is footwear seasonal? Only stocked before the holiday season. Apparently, the only time anyone buys slippers is to give them away!

I still have my RTHW cooler, which I use when shopping for icecream in Albuquerque summer... but now you have me thinking it would make a decent all-year lunch box. As long as I don't have apple sauce...

Re: Seasonal things...

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I've started putting applesauce in little canning jars with screw tops...that seems to keep it under control.

of course, then something else leaks...