Operation ditch the plastic: Duralex glassware giveaway from MightyNest
I’ve joined forces with MightyNest and a group of blogging friends to spread the glass love in our kitchens. Check out other giveaway posts and enter to win glass goodies from Marisa at food in jars, Kaela at Local Kitchen, Autumn at Autumn Makes and Does, and Beth at tasty-yummies.
In our house, we have been making the plastic-to-glass changeover for the past few years now. Slowly but surely replacing everyday use items with glass or other high-quality, non-leaching materials. I think MightyNest (and my book, of course!) is a great place to start when starting to make these changes in your household. It’s essential to go at your own pace, little-by-little switching out certain ingredients, cleaning supplies and food storage/prep materials as you learn more and can afford upgrades.
The good news about switching to higher-quality items as possible is that these are likely things you will have your whole kitchen career (exempting the sacrificial accidentally-broken pieces). MightyNest shared an interesting tidbit about Duralex brand glassware (the items in all of our giveaway posts): these items are tempered, which means they’re stronger than typical glass. If you do happen to drop it, it’s possible that it won’t break, but if it does break, it shatters like safety glass with little crumbles to sweep up rather than jagged shards and fine splinters that can get into tender feet.
Need another reason to ditch the plastic on an as possible basis? You’ll cut out exposure to lead, BPA, PVC, phthalates or formaldehyde, all things that can leach into foods and beverages from plastics and other materials.
There are two places I feel particularly strongly about the plastic-to-glass change over:
Cups & Glasses
We have small dinner parties, other gatherings and I teach classes out of my home often. Whether it’s a round of cocktails I’m serving up or a pitcher of iced tea set out for class attendees, I pull out the mismatched collection of glass cups because it’s important to me to not use plastic cups whenever possible.
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I’m rather picky about the glasses we have on rotation around here. I’m of the opinion that if it’s something you touch daily, you’d better love it. It was a great surprise to open up the box from Duralex and discover that the shape and feel of their 7.5-oz tumbler set jives with my aesthetic and tactile preferences. These glasses finally ousted my flower-pot-shaped, just-meh IKEA nesting set I had on hand for entertaining, and thankfully so! We are now using these in the mix with our daily cups since they’re perfect for a glass of wine or kombucha and also for dipping cookies in milk.
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Food Bowls & Storage/Travel Containers
Our lunches are packed every day in some assortment of these bowls or other glass storage containers.
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I like these Duralex containers in particular because they’re pretty enough to just pop the lid off and serve things in them directly without it appearing like you’re just serving things in ‘tupperware’. They are completely safe, no BPA, lead or anything else you don’t want lurking in your food.
I think it’s hard to find glass, travel-friendly bowls big enough to bring large things like salads in. The 109-oz container (sold separately from the 5-pack) is roughly equivalent to a 3.5-quart bowl. It felt smaller than what I was expecting (and seemingly a stretch to fit 3.5 quarts in it), alas the square shape packs away extra space and nestles the 5-pack right inside it.
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They stack neatly, though that’s not how we store our food storage containers. Finding and fitting lids is not my thing, so storing completely dried containers with lids on has saved my sanity. Yes, it takes up more room, but we spend a lot less (read: none at all) time crouched down and cursing at the container cupboard.
We also use our glass storage bins to oust another long-standing plastic item from the crisper drawer: produce bags. We put down a paper towel and store our stash of washed lettuce or greens in the large bowl for convenient pre-washed greens, minus the plastic tub.
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Check out the rest of the great glass MightyNest has to offer for your plastic-to-glass transition.
Disclosures: Mighty Nest provided me with a complimentary set of Duralex tumblers, a 5-pack of Lys square bowls with lids and a 109-oz Lys storage container. They will be shipping the winner’s set of glassware directly. Opinions and support for these products are my own.
Kate
And the Duralex winner is Beth from Oregon City, OR!
Thank you all for entering. MightyNest has offered up a coupon code for 10% off anything in their online shop and free shipping for orders $50 or more. Use HIP10 at checkout to receive this deal.
Reader Comments (115)
I love how these containers stack. That's my biggest issue--space!
pantry storage and also plastic bags cause you have now given me the idea for salad greens with paper towel. last wilted bunch was pulled out if a plastic bag. it's such an expensive habit.
I really like duralex - I am really tough on my glassware, so they are good to me. Nesting bowls are always a hit in our small kitchen.
Definitely need to get rid of a plastic pitcher in my cabinet and I can use more class storage containers (I don't have much plastic storage, but it does get used when I run out of glass, which happens amazingly often).
I'd like to ditch my kids' plastic plates.
Plastic storage containers are next on my list!
I still have plastic storage containers that I want to switch out. I am also anxious to stop using plastic bags for storage.
My flour and sugar containers! Also all my rubbermaid storage containers are leaving by Christmas!
I still have a set of rubbermaid dishes for storing leftovers. I'm a bit short on small glass containers.
Ziploc bags!
I've already started using glass bowls to store leftovers and I use resuable sandwich bags, but I could start using more wooden spoons instead of plastic...
I would love to ditch all the kids' plastic plates, bowls, sippy cups, etc.
I have already lost most of my plastic. Having some smaller glass containers would help for getting rid of the tupperware (although if I have them already, should I ditch them or just wear them out and not buy more. . .).
I hate plastic glasses and have very few (impossible to clean without scratching). On the other hand if I had enough glass, perhaps I could give some as gifts to friends to stop their plastic use (most of my containers come from other people).
I plan to replace plastic food storage containers next.
Plastic kid cups
I would like to replace my plastic measuring cups with glass.
plastic ziplock bags & a few tupperware. love glass & these look great.
Tupperware
Gallon sized Ziplock bags are just so convenient!
I want to ditch all my plastic food storage containers next.
I've switched over my storage containers and I am very sad they don't stack like these ones! we still have some plastic cups, but I truly hate them and only my bf uses them.. if we had enough glass ones I think hed be ok getting rid of them
Those plastic kid cups from restaurants!
Ive got 2 little ones in home and would love to win these!!! Love Mightynest!!
Ooh, I would *love* stacking glass tupperwares! My problem with our current glass tupperwares is that they take up so much space. These look great!
The only storage containers we have right now are plastic. So they're the first thing on the list that needs to go
I'd like to replace more of the plastic drinking glasses for glass ones.