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For all those whose chilkdren take packed lunches and are fed up with sandwiches....

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lisalisa · 23/10/2006 22:51

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popsycal · 26/10/2006 19:58

not what we are looking at but...

Skribble · 26/10/2006 20:02

Nice little one

Spidermama · 26/10/2006 20:02

I like the price of the Woolies one but I'd worry that the more plasticy ones make the food taste plasticcy. Actually I'm wondering how it tastes in an ordinary thermos. I know coffee tastes a bit nasty from my flask.

TheDaVinciCod · 26/10/2006 22:04

am ordering skirbbles

TheDaVinciCod · 26/10/2006 22:05

NOWAY!!!! its a £5 delivery

sallystrawberry · 26/10/2006 22:15

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oxocube · 27/10/2006 10:22

that Woollies one looks great. Just because it holds half a litre doesn't mean you have to fill it!

TheDaVinciCod · 27/10/2006 17:40

i have an update today
i toured all of the cook shops in slais and foudn the lakeland smal one only keeps thigns COLD
woolies too big
other cook ship to £££

then went to oswald bailey and foudn a FAB one that ratther ressembles a home simpson esque beer cooler

it costs a fiver and oyu micro the food IN IT adn it keeps it hot fo 6 hours

TheDaVinciCod · 27/10/2006 17:41

LOOK At ths big boy

oxocube · 27/10/2006 17:48

Oh well done Cod! That looks great. LOL at Homer

TheDaVinciCod · 27/10/2006 17:50

UK DELIVERY
ADDRESSES
ONLY £2.95

TheDaVinciCod · 27/10/2006 17:51

i do work hard fro you guys

oxocube · 27/10/2006 18:07

And we are eternally grateful

californifright · 27/10/2006 19:18

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TwoIfByScream · 28/10/2006 17:29

californifright, I had one of those too, snoopy as well. Red with a picture of Snoopy and Woodstock dancing on the front.

I remember cream of chicken soup in the middle of winter, I've wanted one of them for dts lunches. Mine had a white cup on top, like a fat flask. Not too keen on the way these ones look, a bit boring.

MumRum · 28/10/2006 17:42

blimey... I've been away for a week and came back to this thread..

I brought a stanley heatkeeper food bottle (small flask in other words) from dunelm last week... We haven't tried it yet, but the only down side I can see it that its got a handle on the top and the kids will look like someone from "little house on the prairie"

sorry can't do links....

kama · 28/10/2006 17:50

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popsycal · 02/11/2006 20:01

hmmm
my thermos one arrived yesterday
i washed it and prepped it by utting biling water in for 10 mins prior to utting food in
put boiling hot pasta in and checked after around 2 and a hlaf hours and it was luke warm
not impressed
emialing gltc

Bucketsofburntdinosaurs · 03/11/2006 10:34

How about cold sausage pie?
Brown 8 sausages and finely chopped onion.
Roll out puff pastry, arrange row of sausages in the middle, add chopped apple and cheddar, fold pastry over into a parcel, sealing with milk, brush with milk and cut slits along top. Bake at 220 until brown, puffy and delicious-looking, leave to cool completely then refridgerate and cut slices for everyone's lunchboxes.
If you're feeling creative slit the pastry sides first and plait over the top to make an armadillo/scarab creature with raisin eyes.

Bucketsofburntdinosaurs · 03/11/2006 10:35

Am I right in thinking that Ebly is just pearl barley in nicer packaging?

ska · 14/11/2006 10:57

did anyone get one of these food flasks and how are they? I bought a £2 one from asda for my dd last year and it works ok for heras she has lunch at 12.15 but when I borrow it, the food is always cold by the time I get to eat! The one I got is completely plastic with a bowl/lid. She has to get a dinnerlady to helpopen it for her but she needs something hot at lunchtime sometimes, and for the variety. I'd like to get one of the oswald bailey or other ones but with P%P thery're nearly £9! Is it worth it?our budget is really tight at the moment....

emmatom · 14/11/2006 17:27

Have just had the Stanley ones arrive a few days ago - see link below from Cod I think. They are the big ones, only £5.99 plus £2.95 p&p.

My kids love them. They were so fed up of sandwiches and now love taking their hot spaghetti and beans etc. The food is always hot at lunchtime they tell me.

So glad this thread was started. I would never have thought of this otherwise and they've been a big hit, especially when we had that frosty weather. My 2 said the other kids at school were jealous of their hot dinners.

ska · 15/11/2006 09:56

Thanks emmatom. I will get one of the Stanley ones then and let you know how it goes! My dd says that the other kids make comments about her food - she has pasta salad (pasta, pesto, broccoli)/couscous/ plus a mix of pitta & hummus/sandwiches, 'buffet' (crackers, cheese, ham, olives, cuc and cherry toms (my answer to daiylea lunchables!) - I say that they must be jealous! anybody get any bullying as a result of healthy lunches?

emmatom · 15/11/2006 14:58

Oh good ska, hope you like your Stanley! No' I've not heard about bullying over lunches, not at our school anyway. The kids tend to take allsorts in and I quite like the way they come home saying," so and so had this for lunch, can I try some".

It's where I get half my ideas from. My eldest is currently mad on Heinz Tomato Soup in his Stanley. His mate often has Leek and Potato Soup apparently. He's becoming quite a little connosieur!!

emmatom · 15/11/2006 19:50

Such a good thread Lisalisa! Tomorrow they're taking puddings in the Stanley!

Wraps for main part of lunch and hot banana custard in the tubs!

This is a whole new world.

God, I need to get out more.