If you bring your lunch to work or regularly go on picnics, you understand how important it is to pack things perfectly. A soggy salad or sandwich is enough to ruin any lunch, so these smart and stylish food storage solutions are excellent.
The Oval Lunch Pail from Objects of Use is super stylish and equally as functional. It's a little nod to the old days but still modern enough that you won't get strange looks in the lunch room.
For the kids, the Planet Box is an excellent option. It allows you to keep each food item separate and really fill it up with delicious fruits and veggies!
• Oval Lunch Pail, at Objects of Use
• Lunch Pot, $22.00 at A+R
• Stainless Steel Oval Bento Lunch Pail, $15.95 at Life Without Plastic
• Planet Box, $39.95 at Planet Box
• Metaphys Ojue Lunch Box, $46.00 at Jet Pens
Related: How to Make Your Own Lunch Box Ice Pack
(Images: Objects of Use, A+R, Life Without Plastic, Planet Box, Jet Pens)
5 Things Paris Taught Me About Travel
Recipe: Ham, Cheddar & Chive Egg Bakes
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Bacsac Bacsquare 04...
Apartment Therapy's Sofa Shopping Guide
Nikki’s Sweet and Cheery Print Studio
All of these remind me of the Anglo-Indian tiffin… which is sadly absent from this round-up. There are some very stylish ones on the market now.
I like to bring soup for my lunch at work in a wide mouth canning jar. I've never had a leak, and it is both microwave safe and nice to eat directly from it.
Julia7 - I do the same thing, yogurt or oatmeal in the morning and soup at lunch. Lots of times when I make a big pot of soup I just freeze it directly in the jars and then just put one out to thaw till lunch time. I bought a bunch of the plastic lids for them so I don't have to use the lids and rings.
I bought a decent lunch bag, a cute little herringbone pattern so everyone thinks it's my purse for some reason, and a couple of dragonfly bento boxes with chopsticks. Everything's reusable, I have a stack of cloth napkins on hand, it's really made bringing lunch such a pleasure that I wish I'd done it sooner.
Where's Mr. Bento?
I have the Lunch Pot in green! It's brilliant - soup in the big one, cheese in the other one.
Objects of Use is sold out of the Oval Lunch Pail, but The Brooklyn Kitchen has them!
I've been working on a system of containers that would replace ordinary food storage containers with a uniquely designed system of containers and racks, and I thought it would make sense to share it here. It's called "Stackerware", still in Development (OCt 2012) but I hope to make it available to the public soon. Check it out and let me know what you think?
http://stackerware.com
Thanks,
Stephen