Thermos Foogo Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel 10-Ounce Food Jar, Watermelon/Green

Durable construction. Keeps things hot for hours. Perfect for my child to take freshly made mac n cheese to preschool. Pasta and sauce is still nice and toasty by lunch.This keeps food hot way longer than the smaller 7 ounce Foodgo container I got when my child was a baby. That one cools down significantly warm after just 1- 2 hours which I found out after sending her to school with cold food and not knowing it. And my child is only 3 and never communicated it to me. But one day, after getting my child ready for school, I get a call that school was closed due to fire in the neighborhood. At noon, I opened the mac n cheese I made at 7 :30 that morning and it was completely cold. So I did some research online and based on reviews, the larger 10 ounce Thermos Foodgo does a better job insulating than the 7 ounce one. So I got one and was happy with it. So much so, that I got another yesterday.I should have known the 7 ounce thermos wasn't doing a good job keeping things hot. While making lunch I would fill it with boiling hot water. When lunch is ready, I poured the water into a mug to make a cup of tea for myself. And I put the lunch in to the pre-heated container. When I sip on my tea, it is comfortably warm. Cool enough for me to take large sips. When I received the 10 ounce thermos. I did the same thing. Pour in boiling water. Make lunch. Then empty the water to make my tea and fill the Thermos with hot mac n cheese. But I didn't think about how hot the water would be and took a big gulp. Yikes! It was still boiling hot and I burned my tongue!!!So yes, this works. Really well, actually.

Love this thermos to send to daycare for hot lunches. We have used a Thermos brand container for my 3-year-old for the past years for daycare and have been very happy with it, so we ordered this one for our youngest who is starting daycare now. The opening is big enough that our child can eat right out of the container and the lid seals tightly (never had any issues with spills).Our thermos routine is:- boil water and add to thermos, close lid- let sit until we are ready to pack up for daycare (30-45 minutes)- dump out water- add hot foodThe food is still warm for lunch time, which is about 5 hours after we add it to the thermos (initially we just asked the daycare teachers to confirm the food is still warm for lunch and now our 3-year-old tells us herself that it is). This time frame works perfectly for us, since it ensures the food is the right temperature — not too hot and safe for little ones to eat, but still warm. Cleaning is pretty easy — we use a very slim bottle brush to get in the tight areas of the lid and take out the rubber seal to clean it and wash inside the lid.

I was so excited when my fourth (out of five) child started kindergarten this year. I could not wait for her to experience lunch time, and the opportunity to eat in a cafeteria with her friends. She has always been such a good eater, that I thought she would happily buy lunch every day. I. was. Wrong. After her first day of school she declared that she would no longer be purchasing lunch, and she was going to be packing from here on out.And just as suddenly- my easy going, never picky, eater, became my biggest challenge. For the first 3 months, she would only eat pb&j or ham and bread. And I was really starting to worry about her diet. Finally, over winter break, she began showing interest in hot lunches once again. So we took advantage of this and purchased an insulated container to pack lunches in.Our first purchase was not a thermos brand product, and we quickly discovered that you get what you pay for- and it wasn’t good. This is why we love Thermos:- It stays hot. We warm it up by pouring hot water in it, while we heat her soup or something from that famous happy kids “chef”.- It doesn’t leak. There is nothing worse than your 6 year old telling you that you ruined her day with dry soup and wet backpack.- Dishwasher safe! This is such a big deal, you just don’t know it yet. Other brands do NOT hold up to the dishwasher, and the result is ^^ wet backpack.- Hot inside does not mean hot outside. I can pack hot and cold items in her lunch bag and hot stays hot, cool stays cool.- Clean designs are gender neutral- hopefully this means no more fighting ( but not likely).I purchased this item outright. Like you, I rely on reviews to guide me when shopping online, so I hope that I have helped you make an educated decision.

This is a great thermos for keeping soups warm for lunches. It holds just over a cup of soup hot for at least 4 hours. I use it for my kids' lunches. Like most thermos-type containers, it works best if you heat it up first. I always fill it with hot water in the morning (since I make tea everyday, anyway) and let it sit for at least 30 minutes. The water is still steaming when I pour it out to fill it with soup. The soup is usually very hot when it goes into the thermos and stays warm until my kids eat it. The only thing I don't like is that it is a bit difficult to get the soup out with a spoon since the thermos is mostly vertical. For my young kids, I give them a bowl to pour the soup into so that it's easier to eat. There is no bowl-top on this, just a thermos. However, it does keep the contents hot. I even put chicken and rice one time and it worked really well. It's also nice and small so it fits into most reusable lunch bags fairly easily. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.