{Review} Lego Lunch Box

The Girls were delighted when, on the first day back at school, they came home to a parcel of fabulous Lego Lunch boxes and drinks bottles from STORE. It took about ten minutes to unwrap and wash them before they were in use: hosting a ‘packed tea’ on the front lawn at the end of a hot day.

The Description:

Our classic LEGO® Lunch range is based on the creative and playful world of The LEGO® Group. It consists of a lunch box, smaller insertable boxes and a drinking bottle with the iconic LEGO® Minifigure head as a lid. The lunch box looks like an oversized LEGO® brick and can be matched with the smaller insertable boxes for small, healthy snacks. The LEGO® lunch range definitely makes lunchtime more fun…for children of all ages!

The Lego Lunch Box comes in nine colours and costs £9.00

The Lego Drink Bottle has six colourways and also costs £9.00

The Verdict:

The Girls loved the colours of the boxes: ours were very pink, which is how we roll. I loved the iconic LEGO design: stylish and distinctive, making it easier to spot amongst the dozen lunch boxes in the classroom.

I found that The Girls struggled to get the top off of the box by themselves: the width of the box was too large for a five- and three-year-old to manage. That said, I had no problem.

I will be buying the mini-insertable boxes mentioned above- at a cost of £2.00 and £3.50- although to be honest I would rather have paid £10.00 and had one included. I have recently purchased a Munchkin Bento box for a similar price which had three compartments, two of which were removable, as well as a set of cutlery.  I have found generally with large lunch boxes that you need smaller inserts to put bits and pieces like grapes and pasta salad in (you can see from the pictures that I improvised with what I had!) 

It’s a shame that the drinks bottle didn’t have a spout or sipper of some kind: there was a seam in the head that made me think it would. I see the sense in having the screw-off bottom for easy cleaning, but you do need to be very careful it’s screwed back on tightly or you have a leak.

They  (hand) wash easily.

The Girls love them: did I mention they were pink?

*disclosure: we were sent two lunch boxes and two bottles from STORE for the purposes of writing this review.*

EDITED TO ADD: today- five days after opening the LEGO delivery, I was washing up the bottle when I discovered that the bottom section had come away from the base, making it unfit for purpose. I have hand-washed it three times in the five days which doesn’t seem excessive and certainly used no brute force. I am understandably unimpressed by this development and have contacted the company. They assured me that this is a very rare event and replaced the broken bottle free of charge. They commented below as you can see!