Non-Leaking Containers for Packed Lunches?

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I want to start taking a packed lunch with me more often, to various places including work, train journeys, days out etc, but I need to get some good containers to carry everything.

I cycle everywhere so will need to throw it in a pannier, often with clothes and shoes, so I really really need it not to ever leak! It also needs to be reasonably compact/efficient use of space.

I want, roughly, a "portion" sized container for pasta salad or curry or cous cous or something similar, maybe a sandwich or two, bag of crisps or similar, box of strips of veg, box of dunkables like sausages, and a pot of something to dunk in like hummous or sauce or mayo. I'm particularly stuck for how to transport runny/oily stuff like pasta salad or hummous, which always seem to leak.

I have a couple of those click-lock containers but they most definitely do leak fine liquid e.g. soy sauce so I don't entirely trust them.

I also have a few tumbler shaped containers with screw on lids with a little rubber seal in them, but they all leak now too.

Are there any containers that are about portion sized which really really definitely don't ever leak? Or are there any other tricks for stopping lunch leakage which I might not have already thought of? Is this why people put kid's lunches inside bigger lunchboxes - do those not leak?

Would small glass jam jars be 100% leak proof? I think I could pack them carefully enough that they wouldn't break, it's more apples bruising etc which is my concern about fragility in a pannier.

Anyone have any other useful portable lunch packaging tips?

All food packing wisdom gratefully received!

I use thermos funtainers for my dc packed lunches. They don't leak.

Great, thanks. They're quite expensive so I wouldn't have bought one without a recommendation, but I might try perhaps one of those and one similar non-branded container, and see how I get on.

I use sistema containers for DH and DS's.. look at their website, they do a much bigger range than you can find in the shops (& asda seem to have started to stock more). I use the yoghurt tubs for yoghurt, pasta salads etc and we've had no leaks. They do a 'breakfast to go' tub which is bigger than the yoghurt tubs and various other types of container. Might be worth a look at?

I also use sistema tubs. The ones I use have click-lock sides, but the lid recess has a thing life a rubber band in it that presumably helps improve the seal.

The lock n lock range do not leak, ever. Admittedly they don't look as nice now, but i have been using the same boxes for 8 years.

What about something like this?
www.amazon.co.uk/Lock-Rectangular-Lunch-Bento-Chopstics/dp/B0054PGWSU/ref=sr_1_37?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1400535056&sr=1-37