food flasks?

dally1

Very interested in this thread - and thanks for the links Pink-winged, especially the one with lunch ideas.

My employer has banned the use of toasters and microwaves since a spate of setting the fire alarms off by overcooking stuff. It would be nice to think they are worried about our safety - but apparently we get charged when the fire service attend a false alarm

With this cold weather it would be great to have something warm rather than a sandwich - like kr15snw I'm surrounded by fast food and restaurants so it's possible to spend a fortune on lunches if you're not careful!

Primrose

If you can't get a microwave for the office, how about one of those little picnic one-burner gas hobs in a carrying case which uses gas cartridges? If you shop around you can get one for around £15. All you need is a mini saucepan and you can pour your food into that to heat it up and eat straight from the saucepan.

kr15snw

Thanks Pink:)

Annoyingly still don't know which ones work well as everyone has such different reccomendations!!

HelenKA_2

If you are taking homemade soup you could heat the flask with boiling water while you are heating the soup in the microwave but make the soup a little thicker than you would prefer then at lunch time thin it down with some boiling water from the kettle which will top up the heat.

We have been using thermos unbreakable flasks for several years and they've alway been fine as long as you give it a good heat before filling.

katycocoa

I bought one from sainsburys for about £6 and keeps food nice and hot til lunch.

kr15snw

Hey Katy, is it a particular brand? And do you take normal meals like pasta etc in it?

katycocoa

It's just a sainsburys food flask, found it with the kitchen stuff. I've mostly used it for soup but it's certainly big enough to get a decent sized meal in there, such as stew, pasta, etc. It's quite short/dumpy with no handle, so easy to fit in a bag. It has a screw top lid which you could use as a bowl but I just eat stuff straight from the flask.

Kimitatsu

Morrisons do these too - I bought one for each of the boys to take soup to school in. DS2 is lactose/gluten/soya intolerant so makes school lunches a nightmare (especially as we cant pick a day it has to be every day paid for the term in advance!). You can find them in the homewares section or with the party plates etc. Cost me £5 I think.

DS1 broke his after about 4 weeks - so bought him one from Lakeland in the sale. DS2 has one of the old fashioned thermos ones which is glass lined, both take a large can of soup in them, or they take heated up leftovers from tea (fried rice, spag boll, meatballs that sort of thing.

They work really well and can be used as a normal flask too

amandada

My dh and ds both use a Thermos food flask (bought them from Amazon) for home made soup every day, and it keeps the soup piping hot till lunchtime-approx 6 hours in dh's case.

The flasks are very robust-ds is 7 and thinks he's the bees knees for being the only one to have soup at lunchtime!

One thing I always do (because my mum did it!) is to put boiling water in the flask to heat it while I'm heating the soup.

trixietoes

We have one too, and as long as you heat it up with hot water like others have suggested it keeps food piping hot uintil lunchtime.

OH has taken leftover (h/made) chicken curry, chilli mixed with rice, numerous soups, baked beans and toast wrapped in foil (beans warm up the toast a bit - not perfect but reasonable). Bolognaise mixed up with some cooked pasta and reheated is nice too.

I got mine from Matalan, can't remember how much. It's a silver thermos type one.