Salad Bowl Kit | 64oz

What It Is

S'well built a reputation on making hydration feel considered rather than utilitarian, and this Crayola collaboration extends that logic to your lunch. The 64oz Salad Bowl Kit ships in retired Crayola colorways — Throwback Blue is the one we've been testing — and the color story is specific enough to actually feel like a collab rather than a licensed slap-on. Blizzard Blue, Violet Blue, Orange Red, Magic Mint: these are the colors that got quietly discontinued before they could become classics, and there's something genuinely fun about that frame.

But we care more about whether it works.

The Design That Actually Matters

The removable tray is the feature that makes or breaks a salad kit, and S'well's version does its job. It sits inside the bowl and creates distinct compartments — you can pack your dressed components separately from the greens, so nothing wilts in transit. For desk lunches or beach cooler situations where you're assembling rather than eating immediately, this is the difference between a salad that's still good at noon and one you're picking at apologetically.

The Mini Canister is small but well-sized for a single serving of dressing. It seals properly — we've carried this upright and sideways in a tote bag without incident. The main bowl is leakproof too, which matters more than it sounds: room-temperature dressing pooling at the bottom of your bag is a specific kind of misery that this kit avoids.

The 64oz capacity is genuinely roomy. A full main-dish salad fits without compression.

The Crayola Angle

We'll be honest: we were skeptical. Most brand collabs are marketing exercises that produce objects you wouldn't pick in a lineup. This one landed differently because the color is the product — you're buying Throwback Blue specifically, not a generic bowl that happens to have a Crayola logo on the side. Whether that appeals to you depends entirely on your relationship to 1990s nostalgia, and we respect that it's not universal.

Honest Caveats

At 1.23 lbs, it's not the lightest kit in this category, and the 64oz footprint means it takes up real estate in a bag. It's a bowl, not a slim bento situation. We'd also want to know more about material before we'd describe it as the forever-purchase S'well's hydration bottles often are — the $20 price suggests this is positioned closer to accessible daily-use than heirloom. It's limited edition too, which cuts both ways: the exclusivity is part of the appeal, but you can't reorder when it's gone.

Who Reaches for This

The people we'd recommend this to are the ones who genuinely meal-prep salads for work lunches and have been burned by the soggy-greens problem before. The separated tray solves a real thing. At $20, you're not making a significant investment — you're buying a better version of the takeout container you've been improvising with.