We analysed the Amazon.co.uk subcategory Food Storage — boxes, tubs and jars that come with their own lids, not the replacement pan covers filed under Lids — and kept only products with at least 200 reviews and 4.3 stars. Ranked by estimated monthly revenue, the ten below include a 24-piece glass set and a fridge-door jug, plus three things that are not sealed containers at all: pop-up mesh covers, a bottle cool bag and a 30-litre cool bag rucksack.
The revenue leader by a wide margin: a glass set with snap-locking lids at £33.99, where the 24 pieces are boxes and lids counted together.
Check the price on AmazonThe revenue leader by a wide margin: a glass set with snap-locking lids at £33.99, where the 24 pieces are boxes and lids counted together.
The highest unit sales on this page at 2,972 a month: a flat 2 litre jug shaped to stand in a fridge door, and up 49% in price over the observed period.
The best-rated entry here at 4.8 stars: five leakproof boxes that nest inside one another when empty, which is the whole argument at £33.72.
Not a container at all: three collapsible mesh domes of 12, 13.5 and 15 inches that go over bowls outdoors to keep insects off.
A single-bottle cool bag at £7.99 that Amazon files under Food Storage as well as under Shopping Bags — it insulates one bottle and does nothing else.
The cheapest entry at £4.99 and the most reviewed at 22,907: three 130 ml pots that stack, aimed at lunch boxes rather than at meals.
Five 850 ml glass boxes at £21.99 after a 31% price drop — the meal-prep size, roughly one portion per box.
Ten 4 litre tubs for £18.98, the catering answer to food storage — bulk freezing rather than a matching cupboard set, and the fewest reviews here at 225.
A 3.9 litre glass jar at £9.71 — a worktop container for biscuits and dry goods rather than anything you would put in the fridge.
A 30 litre insulated rucksack at £28.99 — again not a container, but it is where a good share of the money in this subcategory goes.
| Product | Score | Stars | Reviews | Feature | Material | Price | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. MCIRCO 24-Piece Glass Container Set Best seller MCIRCO · MCIRCO |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 19,977 | 24-piece · glass | Glass | £33.99 | Amazon › |
| 02. LocknLock Fridge Door Water Jug, 2 L LocknLock · LocknLock |
8.7 | 4.5 ★ | 2,439 | 2 L · fridge door | Plastic | £12.50 | Amazon › |
| 03. Joseph Joseph Nest Lock 5-Piece Set Top rated Joseph Joseph · Joseph Joseph |
9.3 | 4.8 ★ | 5,551 | 5-piece · nesting | Plastic | £33.72 | Amazon › |
| 04. Vinsani Pop-Up Mesh Food Covers, Set of 3 Vinsani · Vinsani |
8.7 | 4.6 ★ | 1,158 | 3 covers · 12–15 in | Polyester mesh | £9.99 | Amazon › |
| 05. MTS Insulated Bottle Cool Bag MTS · MTS |
8.5 | 4.4 ★ | 1,772 | 1 bottle · zip | Insulated fabric | £7.99 | Amazon › |
| 06. Sistema TO GO Mini Bites Pots, 3 × 130 ml Lowest price Sistema · Sistema |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 22,907 | 3 × 130 ml · stack | Plastic | £4.99 | Amazon › |
| 07. GOOD FOR YOU Glass Containers, 5 × 850 ml GOOD FOR YOU · GOOD FOR YOU |
8.9 | 4.6 ★ | 3,543 | 5 × 850 ml · glass | Glass | £21.99 | Amazon › |
| 08. ACME 4 Litre Tubs with Lids, 10-pack ACME · ACME |
8.2 | 4.6 ★ | 225 | 10 × 4 L · with lids | Plastic | £18.98 | Amazon › |
| 09. Olympia Biscotti Glass Cookie Jar, 3.9 L Olympia · Olympia |
8.9 | 4.6 ★ | 3,136 | 3.9 L · glass jar | Glass | £9.71 | Amazon › |
| 10. PENGDA Cool Bag Rucksack, 30 L PENGDA · PENGDA |
8.8 | 4.6 ★ | 2,443 | 30 L · 38 cans | Insulated fabric | £28.99 | Amazon › |
Glass does not stain from tomato sauce and usually goes in the oven, but it is heavy and it breaks. Plastic is lighter and cheaper and the sensible choice for a school bag. Both appear here at a similar set price, so the decision is about where the box gets used rather than about budget.
A snap-lock lid with clips on four sides is what makes a box leakproof enough to travel; a push-on lid keeps air off a shelf and no more. The MCIRCO and Joseph Joseph sets are the clip-lid options here, while the jug, the jar and the tubs are meant to stay put.
A 24-piece set is normally twelve boxes and twelve lids. Divide before you compare, otherwise the biggest number wins an argument it should not — and check the stated dimensions when two sets look equally large.
Empty containers take more cupboard space than full ones. Nesting sets collapse into the largest box, the snack pots here sit in a stacked column, and identical square boxes waste far less shelf than an assortment of round ones.
Two litres in a flat rectangle fits a fridge door; two litres in a round tub does not. The jug at rank 2 sells 2,972 units a month on exactly that geometry, and the 4 litre tubs at rank 8 are cut for a chest freezer instead.
Three entries here insulate rather than seal: a bottle cool bag, a cool bag rucksack and a set of mesh covers. They belong on a picnic blanket, not in a fridge, and none of them will stop a sauce leaking into a bag.
Glass for reheating, for anything oily or strongly coloured, and for the fridge shelf you look at every day. Plastic for lunch bags, for children and for anything that gets dropped. Both types are in this top ten and the set prices are close, so it is a question of use rather than of price.
Because lids count as pieces. A 24-piece set is normally twelve containers with twelve matching lids, and the same convention runs through the whole category. Compare the stated dimensions and the number of boxes rather than the headline figure.
Because Amazon files them in this subcategory and they earn enough to reach the top ten. We leave them in and label them rather than quietly dropping them: it says something real about where the money in Food Storage goes. The MTS cool bag at rank 5 also ranks first in Shopping Bags and Baskets.
The products are ordered by estimated monthly revenue per ASIN, not by star rating and not by bestseller rank. Only listings with at least 200 reviews and an average of 4.3 stars were included. Most entries here are sets or multipacks, so the price shown is the price of the whole pack.
The score is not our own hands-on test. It is calculated transparently from public Amazon data: 75% from the average star rating and 25% from the number of reviews, weighted logarithmically. The ranking order itself comes from estimated monthly revenue per ASIN. Prices, ratings and review counts were retrieved from Amazon.co.uk on 22 July 2026 and can change at any time.
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