The Ultimate UK School Lunch Box Guide for Bento Lunches

As you may have noticed, I have a pretty enormous collection of bento boxes and lunch boxes! I definitely have more than the average person, mainly because I make a point of regularly trying new boxes for the purpose of this blog (that’s my excuse anyway!).   I get asked a lot which box I would recommend, but I find it very hard to choose just one – different sizes suit different appetites and my favourite lunch boxes are all good for different reasons.  After seeing this fantastic guide to bento boxes put together by my blogging friend Wendy of Wendolonia, I decided to create my own version, based on lunch boxes suitable for packing bento style lunches that I have used and tried myself.

Although there are many many different lunch boxes out there, I’ve limited this post to 12 (hopefully that’s plenty to be getting on with!), and have only included boxes that I have actually tried out myself and that are readily available here in the UK, so this guide will be particularly useful for my UK based readers.  I would recommend that US based readers check out Wendy’s brilliant guide for more relevant lunch box recommendations.

In my opinion, and based on personal experience, all of the lunch boxes below are of good quality and have so far held up well to repeated use. I’ve started with my 6 favourite boxes (I couldn’t fit all 12 in one chart!) and then compared 6 more that I personally use less often but are still well worth considering.

My six favourite lunch boxes that I use most of all at present are the original Yumbox, brand new Yumbox Panino, Laptop Lunches Bento Box, TUMTUM Lunch Set, Lego Lunchbox and Addis Food Container. Below are some side by side comparison pictures of these lunch boxes, so you can get an idea of size and layout, followed by a chart with all of the information that I thought might be useful.

Below is a second chart comparing the other six lunch boxes I’ve selected.  As with the first set of boxes I’ve provided side by side comparison pictures, followed by a chart with all of the information that I thought might be useful.

Please note: I have provided recommended retail prices where possible but prices may vary.

If you’re looking for lunch boxes ready for school (starting next week for us, eek!), I hope that this post has been useful. If you’re more organised than me and all ready for school by now, do bookmark or pin it for another day!

Which lunch box do you use? Do you have any other suggestions?

Grace

Disclaimer: All details and prices were accurate to my knowledge when this blog post was published, however they may be subject to change.  Eats Amazing is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information shown here.

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