Lunch Box

I bought the PackIt freezable lunch bag for my son this year. The entire lunch box folds up and goes in the freezer. It says it will stay cold for 10 hours. I think that's a bit of a stretch... more like 5. But that works for us. So far I'm pretty happy with it! We also had the laptop lunchbox and loved it but I wasn't so sure it stayed cold enough with one ice pack in the pocket.

We use the 'Fridge in a Bag' - they have some reasonable amount of testing to show how long it maintains temperature. Plus it really has held up - it is currently 4 years old.

My daughter chose this lunch bag this year:

http://www.pbteen.com/products/gear-up-black-damask-retro...

She LOVES it. There is a separate mesh zipped section in the top of it that allows you to put a frozen pack in there, and it stays separate from the lunch items, so her sandwich or crackers don't get smashed by the cold pack. Even at the end of the school day, the inside of the lunch bag is still cool inside. The bag itself is insulated pretty well. My only complaint about this lunch box is that it's bigger than what the average grade school kid needs. My daughter has to carry it outside of her backpack, which I would find annoying if I were her, but she doesn't seem to mind it at all! Anyway, it's a nice, durable lunch bag that is very well insulated. It may serve your purposes.

www.easylunchboxes.com

we use these every single day!

I don't know about the lunch box, but I do know at Target you can get thermos containers in smaller sizes that keep food hot for something like 5 hours and cold for something like 4 or more. It says on the containers. I think they have the insulated lunch boxes next to them and you can find them in the camping section.

I have some of the Fit and fresh containers for my kids.
They work really well. I got mine at Target in the section with the other plastic containers ( ziploc, glad, etc)

hi there,
We bought our son 2 pack it lunch boxes this yearr. He loves them and says his food is good and cold at lunch time. I got a 2 for 1 deal from the official website, and that works out well because I then they have plenty of time to freeze well before using again.
if you haven't seen them, just google pack it lunchbox, or pack it. There aren't a lot of color choices, but they do keep food cold. Good luck :)

K.
TX.

We got a LL Bean lunchbox this year, I wanted to get him something that would last several years and have a matching lunchbox/backpack set and while I love Land's End, the quality on their backpacks has suffered of late. I am actually very impressed with the lunch box. It isn't huge, but it fits everything pretty well. There is a mesh pocket for a gel freezer pack so I put that in there and when he comes home at the end of the day the inside of the box is cool still and the gel pack still partially frozen. Much better insulated than any lunch box I have ever bought at the store. The one we got I think was their discontinued/old model and we got it for around $10. It doesn't look like they have any of those left but the standard model they have now doesn't look much different.

Try Land's End, and maybe LL Bean. I have had great luck with Land's End products, especially the lunch boxes, which hold a lot. You also might want to try using a gel or ice pack in the box.