Transporting home made meals on wheels

Morricl

Hi, I frequently take my mother a hot meal, but am going to be doing it twice - three times weekly. I have searched the internet for an insulated dish but cannot find anything. Typical meals are: roast dinner, casserole, rice based meals, pasta etc. Can anyone recommend a way to transport home made meals on wheels. We usually walk as it's only 1/4 mile and end up with gravy running down our legs!! Need to keep food warm and contained. Any suggestions gratefully received:D

mazza111

containers with lids and an insulated bag? these bags keep things warm as well as cold

Be_Happy

Before my mother died, we used to take Sunday lunch through to her house. I used insulated dishes. If you google 'insulated dishes' you'll find lots of companies who make these.

I got mine from QVC, but I see they are out of stock now.

Errata

Put food in Tupperware or similar, wrap in several thicknesses of newspaper, and carry in insualted bag from a supermarket usually works quite well.

dawnsong

coopers have this set of insulated dishes they say are suitable for transporting food.

http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/detail.php?productid=ST06283&proddesc=INSULATED+SERVING+DISHES&supercategory=&branch=&wcategory=&catdesc=

dmg24

My parents bring my dinners in lots of tin foil ... works just as well!

ifonlyitwaseasier

have a look here some ideas that might help

daska

Lock'n'Lock containers and a decent 'coolbag' will keep the food warm and contained.

fletty

I used to wrrk for the meals at home service for social services, we packed the dinners in foil trays and then into cool boxes which kept the tempretures very well ( I know I had to record them) if we delivered to a flat we used to use cool bags to carry them up in you can get them in supermarkets but I think you'll struggle this time of year hth

Morricl

Thanks for all suggestions - I had spent a long time googling insulated dishes and couldn't find what I needed. I have today found 'Thermos Insulated Food Server with Stainless Steel Liner' on Amazon and eBay. It's just what I want and not too expensive.
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Lorne

http://storage.fantasticmedia.co.uk/Thermos_section.pdf

The one that we bought is the steel food jar on page 53, works fantastically, £3 at t k maxx