it's a tiffin kind of day....

it came, it came, it came!!! remember my "green" christmas gifts to me? well, my tiffin came seperately from the rest of the items {fun posts to come for those!!} and today is the first day i get to use this lovely contraption.... ready for me to share with you? 

welcome to the family, wonderful three-tiered tiffin with matching sidekicks!!! man, do i love you already.  in all it's stainless steel glory, this bad mama-jama has big plans to kick at least some of my tupperware to the curb!  but let's start at the beginning, shall we?

when this box came yesterday, caleb received it {since he was home.... still on leave from work -- read: lucky}.  when i got home he told me in such a calm voice that my tiffin came.... i almost jumped with joy! then he told me it was small.... hmmm.  i walked into the kitchen, and he was right.  i pondered for a moment or two on whether i had accidentally ordered a snack-size tiffin?  i mean, do they even make things like that?  i brushed my fears aside, washed that bad boy up and got to work filling it for today's meals and snacks.  and this little compartamentalized tote has tons of space to fill, albeit it's small stature.  the roundness of it really makes it easy to fill, carry and store in the fridge.  ready for a breakdown of what's in my tiffin today??

{top tier - amelia's lunch.  revolution foods jammy sammy and diced pear fruit cup}

{middle tier - my breakfast! 2 hardboiled cage-free brown eggs and three slices of jennie o's extra lean turkey bacon}

{bottom tier - leftover beef and broccoli stirfry minus the beef [i don't like reheated meat!]}

i'm not entirely sure why that stirfry looks so..... yucky.  it's actually quite delicious.... could be the color combination of carmelized onions and sauteed broccoli.  yeah, that's it.

so i have my healthy meals for the day..... amelia's breafast banana just got tossed in the diaper bag as usual and away we went!  well, away we went this morning tiffin-less.  yeah, i FORGOT my tiffin, on my first day to use said tiffin.  that just wasn't going to do.  so half way to work, i made a u-turn and went back for it!  i still made it to work in the nic of time, with food stuffs in hand!

so what's cool about this tiffin is that you can carry all three compartments {which will be my usual} or you can break it down and simply take along the top tin!

{she's a loner....}

this would be so perfect for snacks in a movie theatre, or a little dinner for amelia when we are invited to a friend's house or out at a restaurant!  i love the versatility of this lunch "box"!!

another neat feature of the tiffin.... the sidekick!  this is a cute little mini-tiffin that comes with the set {i got a few seperately, too} that is perfect for small snacks like nuts or candies, or dressings, sauces, etc.  the sky is the limit - as long as it's small!

{L to R: goldfish, wheat thins, goldfish}

so here are my little sidekicks, full and ready to be snacked out of!  i packed some baby goldfish for amelia to have as a snack today as well as another sidekick of goldfish to keep in the diaper bag for snacking on the go.   my child's an eater.... what can i say?  then i packed sixteen full size wheat thins in my third sidekick as a snack for me today!  i couldn't believe that i could fit an entire serving into one of these little stainless steel bowls!  for some reason, that really excited me..... you, too? whew, good *wink*

now you totally want your own tiffin, right?  head over to the EcoMom store and get one.... pronto!  and then share a link to your first tiffin-ed day on your blog with me :)  i'd love to see what all you pack!