SAVINGS FOR PARENTS WITH LAUNCH OF INNOVATIVE NEW ‘GREDI BOX’

An innovative new ingredients box for pupils is to be launched that will reenergise young people’s interest in cooking and help reduce waste for parents.

The Ingredients Box for Schools, affectionately nicknamed the ‘Gredi Box’, has been designed to help school children safely take the correct amounts of ingredients they need into cookery lessons, including eggs and fluids such as milk.

Its timely launch coincides with an announcement by the Government that cookery lessons are to be made compulsory in all secondary schools by 2011.

Inventor Rik Hellewell, founder of professional oven-valeting service Ovenu, struck on the need after he found his daughters were struggling to carry their ingredients, as well as having to take inappropriate amounts out of the kitchen cupboards.

The microwave and dishwasher safe boxes comprise of a variety of compartments designed to hold a range of ingredients. A two inch deep container forms the top part of the box, which can store both loose ingredients and the completed dishes.

The lower container is split into six sections. Three larger compartments, which are two inches deep, feature a measuring scale, in millilitres, for measuring liquid ingredients.  On the side of the box there is also a section for students to write their names.

An additional benefit is a specially-designed storage for eggs and liquid, plus the inclusion of food grade plastic bags, ideal for a ‘teaspoon’ measure.

Rik Hellewell said: “The Gredi Box allows students to safely bring ingredients into school, as well as be able to take home their creations in the same strong, sealed container.

“From a parental point of view, as well as keeping school bags free of broken eggs and spilt flour, the boxes will help ensure food isn’t wasted. I’m sure there isn’t a parent out there who hasn’t handed over a whole packet of pasta or a full bag of flour to their kids for cooking lessons because they haven’t got a suitable container to put smaller amounts in. With the Gredi Box parents can save money by eliminating this need for wasted food and the kids have a funky new gadget to help grow their enthusiasm for cookery.”

Rik added: “Our initial findings have been extremely positive. Children love the modern design and it was them that implemented the ‘text talk’ abbreviation of ‘Gredi-Box’.

For more information about the Gredi Box please visit www.ingredientsbox.com 

We have a great competition on our National Competition page which will give you the chance to win one of this superb boxes which will be most useful to children

Rik Hellewell is the founder of Ovenu.  

The professional oven valeting service involves dismantling key components of an oven such as the door, interior panels, fan and shelves and placing them into design-registered equipment, which uses non-caustic products to clean the oven parts. The whole Ovenu process takes around three hours and leaves the oven, hob and exterior in immaculate condition. Visit www.Ovenu.com for more details.