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[darchildre]

In continuing meal prep news, I've been thinking for a while about replacing the containers I pack my meals in. Right now, I pack the main entree part of my lunch in a set of kinda flimsy 2-cup plastic containers that I essentially appropriated from the family tupperware cabinet. I'd like to replace them with glass containers instead, so my parents can have their stuff back and I can have something more aesthetically pleasing and durable.

It occurred to be not 5 minutes ago that, if I buy oven safe glass containers, I can bake individual savory pies in them.

Oh my god this changes everything.

Comments

[sara]

The most popular meal-tub at my office is the Pyrex 4-cup glass bowl. They come in a variety of patterns and one can purchase replacement plastic lids separately.

I work in an office full of scientists and we all have a healthy paranoia about what leaches into food from plastic.

[darchildre]

4 cups, alas, is twice as big as I need it to be but I will have to look for a 2-cup version!

[sara]

Oh, it says it's 4 cups but it's really 3. This is the one-lunch-sized dish.

[silveradept]

The idea of individual savory pies baked into a glass dish is delightful. I wish that I trusted my ability to handle breakable glass enough to consider that more fully.