The weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and your lunches are tasting better! Thanks to your Zojirushi Lunch Jar, your hot meals can stay hot and your cold ones can stay chilled. This month we’re going to show you how to pack some of your favorite recipes from our kitchen, using our multi-compartment Lunch Jars. Take it to work, take it to school, then unpack a full course meal and amaze your friends as they gather around to gawk!
Your Lunch Jar can carry full course meals in all its separate compartments while keeping your food hot or chilled until it’s time to eat. It’s the perfect way to pack a lunch if you think about it, but you need to know how to use it properly. Here we explain which containers are insulated, which ones are kept at room temperature and which ones can be sealed to hold liquids. We’ll get you started with some of our own recipes, but the rest is up to you—use your imagination and make the Lunch Jar work for you!
1. Our Beef Curry is the ideal meal to pack in our Lunch Jar. Your rice will stay nice and warm in the main container.
2. The curry sauce of course goes into the soup container—it’ll protect it from spilling and stay hot until ready.
3. The side containers can hold toppings for the curry like fried onions, dried fruits or nuts, and any other snack you might want to bring.
4. Time for lunch and time for Beef Curry! Pour it on your rice and enjoy; don’t forget to bring a drink when eating curry.
1. Use our salmon onigiri recipe to prepare the ingredients. The rice goes into the main container and stays warm until lunchtime.
2. Pack your ingredients like the cooked salmon and umeboshi in one of the side dish containers; keep the nori in the other one.
3. Miso soup will stay hot in the sealed soup container and is the perfect complement to your onigiri bento.
4. Assemble your fresh onigiri—put some rice on your nori, add ingredients and roll it up any way you like; onigiri has no rules!
1. Our Pasta Marinara recipe makes a wonderful lunchtime favorite. Load the pasta into the main container to keep warm and keep from drying out.
2. Of course, the marinara sauce goes into the soup container to keep sealed and hot.
3. You have two side containers to fill with whatever you want. One of them can hold your bread or rolls.
4. Assemble a delicious pasta lunch when you’re ready. Take along a drink to complete the meal.
1. Cold Zaru Udon is a Japanese favorite. Your udon will stay fresh and chilled in the main container of your Lunch Jar.
2. The dipping sauce will keep nice and chilled too, in the sealed soup container.
3. Pack some sides into the two extra containers to add variety to your udon meal. A good way to bring fresh shredded nori for topping, or edamame?
4. And there it is. Chilled Zaru Udon set for lunch—just dip and enjoy. A cold drink will go well with this.
In today’s high powered, always “on” work environment, the easiest way to unplug and take a break at the office might be to bring your own lunch to work. It’s certainly more economical—if it costs you to eat out every weekday, you’ll be spending enough to make a significant impact on your bottom line. And you cannot live on hamburgers alone. While our Lunch Jars can help make bringing lunch easier, that’s not all Zojirushi has to make your day at the office more enjoyable and productive.
Don’t forget the drinks when you pack a lunch—we have a wide range of insulated drink bottles that can faithfully sit by your desk to fuel your body.
Our Food Jars are so insulated, they can literally finish cooking ingredients while you wait! Try this oatmeal recipe that starts with raw oats.
Bert-san experimented with our Food Jars, including testing our rice porridge recipe that cooks the rice in 90 minutes. Want to see the results?
The modern Lunch Jar is a descendant of the Japanese bento that started in the early 1600s. Are you curious as to how it all started?
Meet our NEW tumblers—a full 30 oz. capacity in 5 great colors and matching colored straws! Cap your drink with the lid and take it with you wherever; by your desk, during your lunch, at a meeting. Keep one by your side and express yourself.
1. Five really fun colors. Choose your fave and make a splash.
2. Includes a clear lid and matching color straw—and don’t forget, it’s thermally insulated by Zojirushi technology.
3. Wide 3-1/2” opening for easy filling with ice and easy washing.
4. Pick one up now at the Zojirushi online store!
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