Lock & Lock Storage Tubs

soba

Lock 'n' Lock containers are fab. I've tried other airtight ones before (Matalan) and they're not a patch on these. I use margarine tubs to store stuff that doesn't need to be airtight and Lock 'n' Lock for everything else. I find that the medium to large tubs are the most useful for me. The small ones I got in a set are used though, I use my smallest one for packing a sewing kit when we go away, so no stray needles!

Punky

I strongly recommend LOCK n LOCK containers and while they may be more expensive than other cointainers, they last longer, don't leak, don't lose their shape etc and are great for storing flour, pasta, soup, kids, toys, bits and bobs, etc. INVEST, INVEST!! I buy one or two each time I place an order with Lakeland or visit John Lewis.

Nix143

*grumbling*

Sassa frassa money saving my buttski...............

Not only am I drooling over Kenwood Chefs and a Panasonic bread maker (lost destructions to mine and no idea what quantities to use now!) I NOW have a craving for this fancy Tupperware stuff

*sighing*

Suppose I'll have to stick to my recycled chinese tubs until the Lock and Lock Fairy visits

scholt

I've got some and use them a lot. At the moment two are in the freezer (one each full of blackberries and sloes), but two are languishing at husbands work - hmm,

I would say though undo one of the 'locks' before microwaving. Particularly if its a liquid - soup etc, because I sometimes find if you forget to do this you can't actually get the lid off!

Peem

I always leave my tubs open in the cupboard - which means things are always a bit untidy.

I think it would be tidier if I could store the tubs closed. But does this make them smell? Especially if they're ones not used for a while? I always think of the dead animal smell that comes out of a vacuum flask which has been stored with the lid on and am paranoid about my tubs going the same way.

Yet it would be soooo much easier and neater if I could keep them all closed.

Do they smell if stored with the lids on?

anguk

Punky wrote:

are great for storing flour, pasta, soup, kids, toys, bits and bobs, etc.

:eek: you store your kids in them! I wonder if there's one big enough to store my OH in, be good to keep the family all tidy stacked on a shelf somewhere :rotfl:

tawnyowls

They are very good, but I'm not sure they're good enough for what they cost. I've bought a load of containers from Poundland/99p shop, and I would say they're not far behind - the lids are very tight (a bit of a struggle sometimes, which is where the L & L ones do score) - I wash all plasticware in the DW before I use them, and they passed that test. Particularly impressed with the takeaway containers with the blue lids, huge cereal boxes for storing pasta, flour etc, and the screwtop beakers for things like borax & bicarb.

recovering_spendaholic

Thank you all for your replies - I have just been on Lakeland site and seen the cake store and cereal store and will probably be getting them. Oh dear I feel a spending spree coming on!!! I will probably go over the the QVC shop in Warrington too, to see if they have any reduced ones. Ooh! I love it when I find something new like this for me to collect!!!!

abwsco

VickyA wrote:

I LOVE my Lock and Lock containers and they are just so handy! They're ideal for travelling and camping and everything else that you can think of..... I get mine from Lakeland (we don't get QVC as we don't have Sky/digital), but it keeps me amused for hours. I'm slowly beginning to convert some friends

You can watch it via the web QVC or just check prices online. I always check out Lakeland's and QVC prices before ordering any.

VickyA_2

abwsco wrote:

You can watch it via the web QVC or just check prices online. I always check out Lakeland's and QVC prices before ordering any.

Thanks.:) Didn't know that.

I'd better hide my purse and credit card. :whistle: