Next week I hope to share some nourishing food gift ideas, but today I bring to you a wonderful frugal, health friendly gift (or wish list) idea, with a give away as well!
It can be challenging to find gifts that are health friendly without spending a lot. It’s one of those facts of life, you know, you get what you pay for (most of the time!). However, sometimes there are more frugal options for high quality products, and I am so thrilled to share one of those options with you today. Today, we will be looking at the products from a new company, started by a mom frustrated with the high prices of good quality stainless steel products. She sells some beautiful stainless steel products for a more frugal price.
Yes, that’s right. Stainless steel and frugal were in the same sentence together.
I have long been interested in expanding my repertoire of stainless steel containers as there are so many dangers to plastics. I use glass items frequently, and they do work just fine for most things. Unfortunately glass can break, and I have broken my full share of glass items.
Last year I bought my husband a Kleen Kanteen water bottle for his birthday (how romantic! *wink*), which he has been using everyday and loves. But the high price has prevented us from buying more.
Well, The Tickle Trunk, offers stainless steel water bottles, that are made from the same manufacturer as Kleen Kanteen, boasting the same high quality product at a much cheaper cost. For example, they sell this 18 ounce bottle, for 11 dollars.
They also have these pretty 12 ounce ones that are also just 11 dollars (they are similar to the Sigg water bottles, without the aluminium and plastic lining!).
Follow my example and give one as a gift to a spouse, and they will get everyday use out out of it (instead of the unused scented soap, or tie).
They also have numerous food storage, food grade, stainless steel containers (to replace those yucky plastic things we usually use). And because they are stainless steel you can go directly from freezer to oven. Unlike plastic, which can freeze but not heat, and glass which must be treated delicately when frozen and warmed. The other great feature is that you can write on the top of them with a non-permanent marker to specify what’s in it. I am definitely adding this to my wish list!
For example, this 18.3 x 9 x 6 cm stainless steel food storage container is only five dollars! (Isn’t it pretty? Stainless steel has such a nice shine).
Finally, they have some wonderful lunch pail options. With Joel going to college, I had actually looked at these a while back from another source, but they were just a little beyond our means. Not only that, but they were generally made from aluminium. Made with cheap material and expensive? I don’t think so.
Not so from these beauties!
At the very top of the page, you will see their super duper, three layer large lunch pail, also double walled, which will keep a hungry man (or woman) well feed, and it’s only 20 dollars! Those cheap aluminium ones that were only two layers were thirty dollars in the stores.
Finally, we come to our give away item. The owner let me know that this is one of their most popular items. I can see why.
Here’s their description of it,
“One of our most popular snack/lunch containers! This two layer lunch box is perfect for lunch. A sandwich on the bottom, sliced apples on top. You can also write on the container with a non-permanent marker. This helps to specify the contents, date and owner. It measures 15.9 x 11.3 x 6.2 cm, it is made from #430 food grade stainless steel, and has a removable handle”
This would make a wonderful little lunch container for children taking fruit and sandwiches to school, or on outings. (or for a grown up, for that matter!). Just note that this one is not double walled. It’s not illegal to win my own give away, is it? (Just kidding).
To enter the give away:
Go to The Tickle Trunk, and browse around. Then come back here and leave a comment answering one (or, even better, both) of these questions and leave your email address.
1-Which item did you like the best?
2-What type of stainless steel item would you love to have, that’s not already on the site?
Also make sure that you qualify by reading her shipping information (Canada and US shipping).
I will be closing comments next Friday and drawing our winner, so check back to see if you won!
Finally, keep watching this site as she will soon have stainless steel ice cube trays and stainless steel Popsicle makers, as well as cups and glasses! I hope that we can all support this lady and mother, because she is doing a noble work in bringing these great products to us at a great price.
Thanks, Stephanie, for letting us know about this wonderful company! This post is part of Frugal Friday.
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i think my favorite item is the cups… they would not break when my children used them… and substitute plastic ones!
i have to agree with another commenter about the s/s spice jars….that would be great!
adamjodiw@msn.com
I am so excited to read about this website! We already use stainless steel waterbottles (yes, I wish we knew about these first!).
I love, love the double walled container http://thetickletrunk.com/products.php?id=194&name=Food_Storage_Container
And to know they will have the ice trays soon means I'm definitely going to be making a purchase!
Thanks so much!
Jen Oh
wennyoh@hotmail.com
Food storage container 3 has my vote. I love the stacked ones in your post, too! 😉
First, I’m bookmarking this site so I can go back later and start buying things!
I love the round bowls the best I think and not really a new product, but I wish they would bundle them up so you could buy a set of all the sizes and them maybe a set of 4 – two each of the two most commonly used sizes. I think that would be a wise move!
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Wow, this is a great find. Thanks so much for helping us find out about this!!
It is hard to pick one favorite, but I would have to say the cutlery sets are awesome as they have a case and are all stainless. I find that the ones I have are steel (made for camping) but tend to be poking through our bag, etc, and hard to find a case to fit them, plus I love the idea of the chopsticks with these as it would really be fun for my kids!!
I agree with the poster that says some stainless spice jars would be great, but also a stainless container with a pour spout that is refillable for oils. I like to keep oil out near the stove, but in glass it is subject to the light and I certainly don’t want plastic!!
Thanks
Lisa Imerman
I really like the site and will definitely order some things. We have gotten rid of everything plastic, but you are right the glass breaks!
I would love the food container 3 or 5 for my husband’s lunch.
Thank you!
What an awesome company! Good for that Mama!!
I really liked the stainless steel cup and it would be great if they would also sell sippy type lids to go with it.
Not stainless steel but something that would be neat that I didn’t see is Gift Certificates!! I would put those on my Christmas list!
Love that she will be carrying the popsicle makers – we make kefir or coconut milk fruit pops all of the time and it will be nice to get rid of the plastic. I would love to see a baking sheet tray of stainless steel.
Your blog is wonderful by the way – I am really enjoying the information found here and the recipes.
I loved the idea of stainless steel ice cube trays! I love to freeze things in small quantities (like stock and whey) and these would be perfect!
I loved the idea Irimerman gave of a stainless steel container w/a spout for oils. That’d be perfect!
I found my tiffins at Happy Tiffin, http://happytiffin.com
The prices are pretty good and they are all stainless-steel (no aluminum). I bought (15% off promo, see their website) a latch style and a pyramid tiffin both are beautiful and heavy. A nice change from plastic. YEAH!
I love the round storage containers — a great replacement for all my tupperware! The lunchbox is pretty cool, too.
I would really like to find a toddler-sized stainless steel drink container — safe containers are so expensive!
i LOVE the round stainless steel containers with the silicon seals. Oh, to finally have something leak proof to carry my food in so there’s no more soup in my purse!
The one thing i’d love to see is a stainless steel teapot. i am forever knocking the spouts off of my ceramic ones. my mom had one from Japan that was aluminum that lasted forever, but i hate to think what was leaching out of that thing over all its years of usage.
I really liked the stainless steel cups…never thought of that! Great for little ones!
What I’d love to see would be the food storage containers in square or rectangular shapes for more ease in fitting them into the fridge.
The stainless steel cups are very nice to have for kids. I would like to see all kinds of stainless steel baking pans since they are hard to or very expensive.
WHat wonderful products! Thank you for sharing this. What an affordable option, I now have a great source and will be making purchases from them soon!!
How about baby food containers? Something really, really tiny?
Wow! Neat stuff on there. I think I like the water bottles the best. I guess 27 oz would be best for now!
I really liked the double walled food storage container and the tiffin.
It would be nice to have a small sectioned tray with a lid. I could make my daughter’s meal and send it to Grandma’s that way.
Great site and great prices. I wish I would have known about it before buying everyone their own water bottle.
I like the large lunch box.
jennifer AT cooperado DOT com
All these products look fabulous, but I think the water bottle is what I like best. I would REALLY like to get my husband off his plastic water bottle!
Thanks,
Shannon
spicerack75 AT yahoo DOT com
What a great site! I saw them earlier this week but didn’t poke around to see the whole line up. If I were buying things this year I would totally buy some of these!! 🙂
My favorite is the tiffin tin, and the rectangular lunch box. I love my Laptop Lunchbox but I may have a crush on those stainless ones 🙂
What I would love to see is stainless container like the round ones, but that are square. I can imagine that round containers would be harder to stack into your fridge than square or rectangular ones.
Thanks!!
Thank you for sharing this site. I love stainless steel cookware. I also would like to own a good quality stainless steel pitcher for water. We got rid of our plactic pitcher and went to glass, but it is heavy and of course there is the breakage concern. The storage bowls would be great in my kitchen!