{"id":8661,"date":"2021-01-17T23:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2021-01-17T23:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:16:44","slug":"the-best-food-storage-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/the-best-food-storage-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Food Storage Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite food storage containers AKA &#8220;Tuppers&#8221; are the rectangular &#8220;Ikea 365+&#8221; line. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-600x499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-600x499.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-120x100.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-768x638.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-1536x1276.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-2048x1702.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-stacks-well-50x42.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The same top is used by ALL of the different sizes (34 ounce to 142 ounce) and materials (plastic and glass). No more rummaging for the right size lid!!!<\/li>\n<li>Having consistent dimensions, they stack well in the fridge and nest well on the storage shelf.<\/li>\n<li>Being rectangular, they use space more efficiently than a cylindrical or bowl shaped container.<\/li>\n<li>They are inexpensive and I can buy more of the exact same size, unlike the stupid &#8220;premium limited edition&#8221; food containers I&#8217;ve had in the past.<\/li>\n<li>Available in light &amp; break-resistant plastic, and oven safe &amp; stain-proof glass, I use them daily!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the exact sizes I have, all with the same beautiful lids:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-430x600.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-86x120.jpg 86w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-768x1073.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-1100x1536.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-1466x2048.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp-36x50.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-pp.jpg 1649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>34 ounce plastic<\/li>\n<li>34 ounce glass<\/li>\n<li>68 ounce plastic<\/li>\n<li>61 ounce glass (the mate for the 68 oz. glass)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had them now for a few years and they&#8217;ve stood up well. The plastic appear to be polypropylene, as they read &#8220;P.P.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 142 ounce containers use the same lids but I don&#8217;t have any yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8662 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox-600x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox-600x290.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox-120x58.png 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox-50x24.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ikea-lunchbox.png 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only downside I&#8217;ve found so far is that the 34 ounce size is too big for what you&#8217;d consider &#8220;small&#8221; leftovers. If it doesn&#8217;t make a mess, I will sometimes put two different small leftovers in the same container. They make a sectioning system that I should try out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/please-help-me-with-food-storage\/\">(I previously wrote about food storage)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite food storage containers AKA &#8220;Tuppers&#8221; are the rectangular &#8220;Ikea 365+&#8221; line. Here&#8217;s why: The same top is used by ALL of the different sizes (34 ounce to 142 ounce) and materials (plastic and glass). No more rummaging for the right size lid!!! Having consistent dimensions, they stack well in the fridge and nest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}