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Re: rec your BPA-free tupperware set
If you're concerned about BPA, you're best to move on to glass.
Get a pyrex set with lids.
(But for the record, any brand that's marketed for food is BPA free. Glad, Ziploc, Tupperware, etc.)
Wow, really? I didn't know that - that's great to know. I'm usually fairly educated about this stuff. We got our tupperware set as a wedding gift five years ago before I really got into healthy living. I'm wondering if our five-year-old set would be BPA-free...? Otherwise, the glass is a good idea.
if you got your tupperware 5 years ago, it's prob. not BPA free. you would have to contact the company to make sure.
you really can only count on plastics being BPA free if it specifies it on the packaging, it's only been about the last 2 years or so that the media went crazy advertising about the negatives of it, so that's when companies started focusing on making plastics without it. I don't think there's much truth to the theory that if it's marketed for food, it doesn't have BPA- there's plenty of plastics meant for food that have it in it- including most canned goods (in the plastic lining of the can).
Eh, I was speaking of food-specific reuseable containers. Currently, most brands use another plasticizer.
Which I, personally, don't think is likely any different in the long run than BPA.
Honestly, if you don't heat in it, old Tupperware is unlikely to be a problem. If you don't want it, donate it to charity.
If I had the money, I'd buy a bunch of this:
http://www.anchorhocking.com/prod_207_bake_n_store.html
glass, with glass lids:
As it is, I have a couple pieces of it and LOVE it!
...not great for putting food in to take with you, but fabulous fridge storage, especially because it can all go in the oven / micro, and looks good enough (in a cool retro way) to go right to table.
I am the 99%.
Same, we just got a set and I was sooo excited