The portion reset
A fortnight of meals built around fixed compartments instead of a scale, for people who want portions to stop being a daily decision.


Two bays of unequal size, about two thirds and one third of 27 oz between them. The large side takes the bulk of the meal, the small side takes whatever should not touch it yet: a dressing, a handful of nuts, the cucumber that turns to water if it sits in vinaigrette from Sunday to Wednesday.
The smallest divided dish here, at 27 oz, and the one that suits a lighter meal or a child. It is also the set most often out of stock, so it sometimes appears here without a price.
What separates this from a supermarket storage dish is the glass itself. Borosilicate was developed for laboratory work in the eighteen nineties for one reason: it survives being heated unevenly. The domestic version of that property is a dish you can roast in, chill, and put in a microwave four days later without thinking about any of it.
Four clips and a silicone gasket seal the lid. That is what makes the dish bag-safe rather than just fridge-safe. The lid stays out of the oven, and it comes off or sits loose in a microwave, because steam with nowhere to go is what ends a gasket's useful life.
Five come in the box. Five covers a working week with nothing spare, so most households end up with two sets rather than one. The kit builder on this site does that arithmetic properly.
A fortnight of meals built around fixed compartments instead of a scale, for people who want portions to stop being a daily decision.



