Holiday Glass Food Storage

When you’re passionate about choosing and preparing healthy, real food, making informed choices about storing it is a natural next step. At MightyNest, we feel strongly that replacing plastic food storage with glass is the way to go.

For friends and family making the transition to a healthier lifestyle, glass food storage makes the perfect gift. It not only shows loved ones how well you know them, it's a gift that will be used and appreciated every day of the year.

People in your life who will love the gift of glass food storage

The Leftover King or Queen 
If there's one thing better than enjoying an encore performance of a great meal, it's having it already packed up in a spill-proof container that can be warmed up and eaten from! Leftovers for lunch reduces food waste and stretches food budgets, too. 
Solution: Wean Green meal containers or Lifefactory Mobile food storage

The Forward Thinker
You know those uber-organized people in your life who shop and make meals for the week ahead? They can never have too many containers to store pre-prepped ingredients and  make ahead meals.  Glass containers keep flavors intact and go right into the oven. 
Solution:  Anchor Hocking’s True Seal glass dishes OR Bake & Store

The Stocker-Upper
Some people just don't feel secure unless they know there's at least a month's worth of staples in the pantry. Gotta love 'em. Help them keep track of what they have and keep it fresh with a variety of different sized containers for common and not-so common items.
Solution: Simax Storage Containers OR Anchor Hocking Stackable Glass Jars

The Minimalist
Lys covered glass bowls from Durlex do triple duty as storage, serving, even mixing bowls. Because they stack and nest, you can give a whole kitchen's worth of versatile vessels in one handy stack. Duralex bowls are tempered for extra durability and are freezer, microwave, and dishwasher safe. The perfect gift: Lys Square Glass Bowls in a set of 5 or 6 individual sizes

The Crafty One
We love giving homemade gifts in jars -- everything from holiday cookies to homemade bath salts. Canning jars air-tight, easy to clip shut and look great on open shelving! They are also the gift that keeps on giving because they become  storage jars long after the gifted cookies or homemade treats have been eaten! The perfect gift: Weck jars in all shapes and sizes

Why we love glass food storage (and they will too!)

1. It's safe: No yucky chemicals to contaminate your food

Glass is a natural material. It’s impermeable, non-porous, and above all, real (like the food you put into it). Conversely, plastic containers are made with chemicals like BPA and PVC (phthalates) to make them both hard and soft. Plastic degrades over time, releasing these chemicals into your pure, carefully prepared food. Unlike plastic, glass can take the heat; not only in the oven and microwave, but also the hot cycle of your dishwasher, which makes it particularly easy to sanitize.

2. It's practical: Glass goes from freezer to fridge to oven to table and back again

Because glass performs safely at a variety of different temperatures, and is visually simple and attractive, you don’t necessarily have to dirty up another container to heat food that’s been stored or to serve food that’s been heated. Glass also has a huge capacity to absorb and retain heat so when your homemade dish is made in glass, it will likely stay warm for second helpings at dinner.

3. It's transparent: See your beautiful food clearly, find it easily.

No matter how hard we try to practice a first-in, first-out system when storing food in the freezer, inevitably some things get pushed to the back where they can be easily forgotten. Storing in clear glass makes it so much easier to see what’s you’ve got. When our food is visible, we often remember to actually cook it! Some people rely on food dating to keep track of pantry staples. Washi tape adheres well to glass and a wax china marker cleans off easily.

4. It's sustainable: Glass lasts, and is 100% recyclable

Don’t let its beauty fool you, glass is incredibly durable and holds up to years of reuse. Though it’s admittedly more expensive to purchase, glass lasts longer than plastic, is made from a sustainable resource, and is 100% recyclable. So the cost to your family, and our planet, is far less in the long run.  

5. It's clean: Food stored in glass tastes like it’s supposed to

Store food in glass and it won’t be altered by the flavors of previously stored food or stale refrigerator smells. Glass is non-porous and difficult to scratch (reducing the risk of trapped food particles), and there is no plastic-y taste competing with the great flavor of the food you worked so hard to make. Unlike plastic containers that go from a "new" look to a stained and scratched version quickly, glass remains looking the same.