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I bought a food bottle and the beverage bottle.

I hope to use them nearly daily to reduce my fast food meals and beverage purchases. It has been a pretty good run so far. I use my beverage one daily. I usually have my food bottle, but it's a little bulkier and sometimes I don't cook stuff in the morning.

Here's a thread where I posted about my thermos' before.

Why is a thermos great?
- it keeps meals you cooked, at any time during the day, hot for the whole day
- it stores your food, like a lunch box
- pretty easy to clean
- durable and rugged
- i'll use it camping, as well as daily
- there are only three replaceable parts for the beverage bottle (o-ring, cup, screw-cap)
- there are four replaceable parts for the food bottle (o-ring, cup, screw-cap, spoon)
- saves me money
- saves my health
- gets me cookin'

I have used them in the following ways:

Food bottle:
oatmeal
cereal
soup
rice

Beverage bottle:
coffee
tea (hot and cold)
milk (for cereal)
water
juice

Haha ... .Net sucks.

food ideas:

chili
curry
pasta
beans
quinoa
noodles
potatoes
groats
lentils
burritos
potato salad
madras sambar
punjabi chhole
dal makhani
unagi/katsu donburi
miso
gyoza
salad

Damn this sounds tasty!

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i like the zojirushi mr. bento.

i noticed it sometimes gives that error too, but it seemed to fix itself later. fuck the thermos site.

the zojirushi looks nice.
you can put more varieties in it!

I like the look of that, lucas! I may just get that here soon...

dp you should try jook which is a rice and tuna dish
its perfect for a thermos I will ask ji how to make it later

hook it up!

Yea I think I need to own one of these.

i bought a (now discontinued) 16 fl. oz. thermos from target in the summer of 2005 (link). i still have it and i still like it a lot.

many of the zojirushi thermal bottles are teflon coated, which some users express concern over. i do not think that the aforementioned mr. bento is teflon-coated, however.

you got the 26 fl. oz. nissan thermos 26 fl. oz. travel companion (link), correct, dp? i cannot find your food thermos on amazon.

i think i'd buy the 34 fl. oz. nissan thermos (link) and a 10-cup glass-handle chemex (link). then i could fill up the large thermos, and i'd have 16 fl. oz. of coffee remaining for a mug at home or my secondary, smaller (16 fl. oz.) thermos.

I got the smaller briefcase version 24 oz, it doesn't say anything about nissan, although before I bought it at the store I thought that was the one I wanted.

Amazon provides! I think it is this one. Here's the food bottle.

I bought groceries today with thermos action in mind :D (got tuna!) I was going to also mention that the zojirushi wouldn't really work for me. Too many parts to clean on a daily basis, and I don't cook that many varieties for every meal.