Walmart Mainstays Plastic Food Storage Set

When Allrecipes editors cook a meal, we always try to make enough for multiple rounds of leftovers. It’s the best way to both save time in the kitchen and stretch money at the grocery store. Because leftovers are such an important component of our weekly meals, we’ve devoted quite a bit of time to finding the best food storage containers available on the market. We’ve tested most of our recommendations firsthand, assessing each product for how well it kept brown sugar moist, removed stains and odors, and survived after being thrown from a counter. 

But some other containers have recently caught our eye because they have a clever space-saving hack that shoppers adore. Case in point: Mainstays’ 14-piece stackable food storage set. With thousands of perfect ratings at Walmart and a shocking $6 price tag, the question isn’t if we’re going to buy the set, but how many we’ll purchase at once.   

Mainstays Plastic Food Storage Set 

Mainstays’ shopper-loved containers are a great purchase if optimizing cabinet space is a high priority for you. There are seven bowls and lids in the bundle, ranging from the largest size at 5.5 liters to the smallest at 0.23 liters. In cups, this translates roughly to 23 and 1, respectively. In practice, this means you can use Mainstays’ $6 set to store an extra-large batch of soup, leftover spaghetti and meatballs for two, and a small diced onion, all at the same time. But the best feature is that when the containers aren’t in use, you can nest them inside one another to save space. Oh, and we can’t forget that they’re dishwasher-safe.  

With so many positive features, we’re not surprised that more than 2,000 Walmart shoppers gave Mainstays’ 14-piece plastic food storage set a perfect rating online. In fact, multiple buyers wrote that they purchased another set after snagging their first. Additional comments note that the containers are sturdy, functional, attractive, and, best of all, affordably priced. It’s hard to beat less than $1.20 apiece for seven nestable containers.

Looking for food storage solutions in a small kitchen with limited storage space? Grab Mainstays’ Plastic Food Storage Set. You can even find it in a few gorgeous colors, including pink, green, and gray, to suit every style. Hopefully, there will still be a few bundles in stock after all of us here at Allrecipes fill our own shopping carts. 

Shop More Food Storage Containers at Walmart

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Rubbermaid TakeAlongs 5.2-Cup Deep Square Food Storage Containers 

Mainstays 92-Piece Food Storage Variety Set 

At the time of publishing, the price was $6.