Reddit reviews Ziploc Twist 'N Loc Containers, 16 oz. 3 Containers & 3 Lids

sorry it's half gone... i meant to take a pic before starting. so the recipe:

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cinnamon minute muffin, my way:

• 2 tbsp salted butter (add a pinch of salt of if using unsalted butter)
  
  
• 28g king arthur's flax meal (4 tbsp for those without a food scale)
  
  
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
  
  
• 1 tsp cinnamon
  
  
• 30g heavy cream (i use land o lakes, 2 tbsp)
  
  
• 1 large egg
  
  
• 6 drops of liquid sucralose (i use ez sweetz. you can sub 3 packets of Splenda)
  
  melt butter in microwave for one minute. you can use a coffee mug. i use a generic brand of this.
  
  while melting the butter, i gather my other ingredients.
  
  once the butter is melted, i add the flax first. it will swell and soften slightly from the heat. (i think this is a trick to a good minute muffin.) then put the baking powder and cinnamon on top of that.
  
  next, add the cream (yes, i weigh it) and then the egg. finally, add the ez sweetz.
  
  now stir, making sure to get into the corners and scraping the sides.
  
  now into the microwave. 90 seconds in my 1200 watt microwave is perfect. 60 seconds can come out a little gooey; 120 seconds, a little dry. you'll have to play with your microwave.
  
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  the icing:
  
  
• 28g cream cheese (using original philadelphia... whatever the package called a serving; i think it says "about an inch")
  
  
• 15g heavy cream (land o lakes, 1 tbsp)
  
  
• 4 drops of liquid sucralose (ez sweetz, or you can sub 2 packets of Splenda)
  
  while your muffin is in the nuke box, grab the bowl you will be eating from and weigh your cream cheese and heavy cream into it. now add the ez sweetz and stir like hell. (if your cream cheese is particularly firm, 10 seconds in the microwave will straighten that out, but you'll have to wait for your muffin to be done.) it will look a little runny at first but it will thicken.
  
  
  
  now move the icing to one side of the bowl with you stirring spoon and dump your muffin in. it should slide right out... i am yet to have one stick as long as i start with the butter. then spoon your icing over top and enjoy!
  
  
  
  the stats:
  
  
• cinnamon muffin: 13g carbs, 9g fiber. 4 net carbs, 47g fat, 12g protein, and 518 calories.
  
  
• cream cheese icing: 1 carb, 0 fiber. 1 net carb, 15g fat, 2g protein, and 150 calories.
  
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  totals:**
  
  
• 5 net carbs, 668 calories, 62g fat, 14g protein.
  
  If using Splenda instead of ez sweetz, add ~4.5g of carbs to the total. I also usually count eggs as having 0 carbs, but it is actually ~.4g. Count it if you want, i just want everyone to feel fully informed. (As eggs are an agricultural product, nutrient macros vary from egg to egg. They actually range from .2g to .6g of carbs per large egg. That's why i do not count them... low enough to not matter.)
  
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  also note that i, personally, am not a big fan of cream cheese. my wife gave me this idea so i tried it and she nailed it. normally, my icing would be equal part whole milk and confectioners sugar.
  
  once again, i am in heaven... and i still have half to eat.
  
  edited to add alternative measurements so those without a food scale can enjoy as well.

I regularly cook food for myself and my wife to take with us to work.

I use 2 cup containers by Ziploc. They're water tight so I can put anything in there without worrying about spilling.

As for meal ideas, over the past several weeks, I've made the following for both of us to eat:

• Chili
  
• Chicken noodle soup
  
• Lentil Soup
  
• Veggie Stew
  
• Curry Porridge
  
• Quinoa and Veggies
  
• Stir Fry and rice
  
• Risotto
  
• Spaghetti and Marinara
  
• Tuna Noodle Casserole
  
• Macaroni and Cheese
  
• Pasta Salad
  
• Green Salad w/ Beans
  
  The point is, if you can microwave leftovers, you can put it in these 2 cup containers and microwave your left overs.
  
  I make casseroles and freeze sections of them. My wife would take those with her for lunch, but I cautioned against doing that, mostly because it can be a LOT of food and far too many calories.
  
  Typically, when packing my meals, I try to eat every few hours. I start with cereal, eat an apple, a granola bar, another apple and my hot lunch. It works pretty well for me.

Going high on prices.
10-15$ jars
10-15$ for a tub
5-15$ vermiculite
10$ perlite
13-25$ for a syringe or 5 for 35. recommend these guys.
8$ for rice flour
30-100$ for a pc. (don't have to have this but it's good)

Somewhere between 60 and 120 dollars without the pc and sometimes you can find a pc at a garage sale for cheap or borrow your moms.
You can make your own brf with a coffee grinder, that would add 20ish. You can use these 1 pint Ziploc with screw on lids instead of jars but I would only use these if pc'ing, and make sure to melt inoc holes before pc'ing.

Thank you. It's been quite a long road, but I did my research and bought the tools that got me through it.

It's just a lifestyle now.

https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Loc-Containers-Lids/dp/B000LNY1D8

Are your friend.

This is my favorite eating container, with DIY reflectix cozy.

Maybe something like these vinyl bags with zipper sliders. Not sure if food grade and probably heavier than ziplock bags, but reusable.

In terms of a container you can store food and cook with, some hikers like pots like this Vargo BOT bottle pot that has a screw on lid. Maybe add hot or cold water to a plastic container with a screw on lid like this one from ziplock and let it soak all day.

For the range, I just use these

Similar in weight to a twist lock tupperware; my 2 cup twist lock "cup/bowl", lid and cozy sit at 1.94oz. I use mine for coffee, to rehydrate meals in or to soak food in. Having a screw top lid is awesome and my toaks 750 pot will nest inside the cup (without the lid on, i just put the lid on top of the pot).

These are very cheap and easy to find - click here

Keeps my coffee or food nice and hot!

These: http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Containers-Round-Small/dp/B000LNY1D8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347308513&sr=8-1&keywords=Ziplock+containers+round

http://www.amazon.com/Johnson-18036-Ziploc-Twist-Containers/dp/B000LNY1D8/ref=sr_1_3?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1369524753&sr=1-3&keywords=gladware

just cut a hole the size of your speedlite in the blue top, and then cover the rest of the top with aluminum foil, and place the assembled container on your speedlite upside down.

you can also use foil inside the container on what will be behind the subject, so as to not waste light.

you're probably better off just learning to bounce, though.

I have a blender bottle and love it. I use it as a regular water bottle (easy measuring for my water intake), fill it with my breakfast smoothie every morning, and I use the little ball to mix all my supplements and it works really well.

As for storing, I keep my protein in my desk at work since my gym is one floor up from my office but I've also found I can keep a small scoop and several servings of protein powder in these:

http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Loc-Containers-Lids/dp/B000LNY1D8

I've been using these lately, cheap, seals tight, no odor once the lid screws on. You can find them in almost any grocery store, Target, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Loc-Containers-Lids/dp/B000LNY1D8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1422208732&sr=8-7&keywords=plastic+screw+top+containers

In the u.s. people use a lot of different things. Some people like the flimsy little bottles, some people like harder sided gatorade bottles, some just use coca cola bottles!

As for a cold soaking container - do you have access to these? https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Loc-Containers-Lids/dp/B000LNY1D8

They don't leak and are 16 oz. The talenti jars are 16 oz as well.

As an interesting side note to this. I went to go get plastic containers with screw on lids

For those that don't want to click the link, it's 3 x 16oz containers (~475ml) for $6.50

Or 48oz of space for $6.50

A 12 x 16oz box of mason jars is $11.50

Or 192oz of space for $11.50

192 oz of plastic storage space would cost $26.

So glass and steel is somehow less than half the price of plastic, which I did not expect at all.

The jars also have replacement lids and seals you can buy, to hell with you plastic!

probably meant this

http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Twist-Loc-Containers-Lids/dp/B000LNY1D8/ref=pd_sim_k_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=11DRQJCP0MAG2R7J5D0M

After a year of daily packed lunches and zero leaks into the lunchbag, I can recommend the Ziplock Twist N Lock as seen here