Breakfast and the 3pm gap
Forty minutes on a Sunday that removes two decisions a day: what to eat at seven in the morning and what to eat at three in the afternoon.


Round bowls of 24 oz with a snap lid, 60 of them. The round shape is the right one for anything you eat with a spoon. Soup, chilli, oats, yoghurt, a grain bowl. A rectangle wastes the last two spoonfuls in its corners and a bowl does not.
Sixty round bowls, which is the largest pack here and the one aimed at soup. If a household cooks a big pot of something once a fortnight, this is the pack that stops portioning being a chore.
Polypropylene, which is the plastic marked 5 on the recycling triangle. It is the standard material for reusable food storage for two reasons: it holds its shape up to microwave temperatures, and it is not made with bisphenol A. The range is free of BPA, PVC and phthalates.
Buying by the fifty changes how you use a container. A box that cost a few cents can go out with a lunch and stay at the office, go into a freezer for six months, or be handed over full to somebody who is ill without either of you thinking about getting it back. That is a different tool from a glass dish you count and reclaim.
The black base hides the orange that a tomato sauce leaves in clear plastic after two or three reheats. It also makes food look better than a clear box does, which matters more than it should. Lids snap rather than clip, so they seal against splashing but are not the choice for a bag carried on its side.
Forty minutes on a Sunday that removes two decisions a day: what to eat at seven in the morning and what to eat at three in the afternoon.
Food cooked for a parent, a new baby, a sick friend or a neighbour. The containers are not meant to come back, and that changes every decision.


