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Annie_Fanny
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Hey everyone
Just a little personal recommendation from me. I'm not on commission I promise!
As I have been doing a lot of batch cooking recently and needed a cheap and convenient method to store the food in. I have found the 'Curver Take Away' storage boxes really really brilliant. They can be used in the freezer, microwave (although you need to remove the lid), and dishwasher (although I don't have one of those!). I bought them from Asda and they are £1.74 for 5 - 35 pence a box! I had been freezing stuff previously in bags and it was just really messy and not convenient for work so I am really made up that I found these.
Hope this is helpful!
Annie
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Just a little personal recommendation from me. I'm not on commission I promise!
As I have been doing a lot of batch cooking recently and needed a cheap and convenient method to store the food in. I have found the 'Curver Take Away' storage boxes really really brilliant. They can be used in the freezer, microwave (although you need to remove the lid), and dishwasher (although I don't have one of those!). I bought them from Asda and they are £1.74 for 5 - 35 pence a box! I had been freezing stuff previously in bags and it was just really messy and not convenient for work so I am really made up that I found these.
Hope this is helpful!
Annie
Xx
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I love those boxes too, they can pick up a bit of colour from the food, especially tomatoes. But they are good.
My mum gave me a good tip. Put the stuff in the bags in the pot and then when frozen, remove from the box and you can re-use them!0 -
Apparently, if you squirt a bit of oil onto the plastic box (one of those one-cal sprays or just a dab of ordinary oil rubbed round with your finger!) before putting your tomato-based sauce in them, then they don't stain. Or so I read last night on one of those hundred helpful hints-type websites.0
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They can get a bit stained in the dishwasher as well if you wash them with anything tomatoey but they're great. I've got loads in different shapes and sizes. They stack nicely in the freezer as well.:smileyhea0
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I love them!! So handy for everything. I am starting a collection of orange storage boxes and chopping boards though from the amount of times I've been lazy and thrown them in the diswasher with a pan that had bolognaise in it :eek:May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch...:D0
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If you soak tomato or curry stained boxes overnight in baby sterilizing liquid, that should get stains out.0
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I use these storage containers all the time. A great way of freezing portions of food for a later date. Have to say I like the idea of freezing inside a bag inside the box - must give that one a go.:j0
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The majority of our sandwich boxes are takeaway tubs! We had a very nice Chinese restaurant in Lancaster that did plastic tubs. Not huge, but good for keeping sandwiches flat in a backpack when cycling anywhere. And they stack nicely in a fridge/cupboard too, as do hummous/coleslaw/dip tubs from Morissons (the only place we have, but other places will have them I'm sure). The little round ones are ideal for bits and pieces - a blob of hummous and some carrotsticks, for example.
Ice cream tubs are the classic though - make sure you get the nice big square ones - none of this silly low-fat oval nonsense
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Calephetos - glad to hear someone else re-uses take-away tubs. haven't bought lunch boxes or freezer boxes for years as take-away ones are perfect! They last for ages and are the perfect size. I'm so sad, I even bought some round ones back from Majorca in June because I couldn't bear to leave them behind!0
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i try to use my marge tubs...for freezing things.. plus you can use them in the mirowave as well....plus at the mo.. using them for cereal bowls as all my bowls are all broken ....
but if you dont want to buy take aways.... you can buy those cartons in cheap shops ..they come in packs of 5 and i have seem them sell for about 85p to a £1.00 for the 5.....:rotfl:Work to live= not live to work0 -
If anyone has a warehouse store near them, look out for their microwave/freezer tubs £1.00 for 5. Mine have them ( bury st edmunds) in two sizes, and as long as you are gentle when removing the lids, they are brilliant. I have just used my newest lot to portion up and freeze my barbeque meat (from my butcher of course;) ) ready to use when the mood takes us. They are also great for storing kids playdough, beads etc!
much cheaper than tupperware and fulfill my plastic tub fetish (well my hubby seems to think I have a problem with plastic tubs:rotfl: ).0
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