Walmart has the Pyrex 12-Piece Round Storage Set (1107893) for $14 with free in-store pickup or $2 shipping to home. Includes: one 3-cup container, one 7-cup container, one 4-cup container, two 2-cup containers and one 1-cup container with lids. Usually twice as much or more.
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PYREX Made in USA - top quality product
^ Ironically enough this is one case where you don't want it made in USA. A few years back - some speculate it was due to Corning selling the brand to World Kitchen, Pyrex USA switched from using borosilicate glass to using tempered soda-lime glass which is not as thermally shock resistant (which was what Pyrex was supposed to be virtuous for) because it has a significantly higher coefficient of expansion.
Pyrex Europe on the other hand, makes some products that end up in the US and those are still made from borosilicate glass, but they are usually lab equipment, not kitchen cookware sold in the US.
That doesn't make them a bad choice per se, just not as good as borosilicate dishes if you plan to cook in them.
WM says you won't get this before Christmas if that matters to you..
Bought an 18pc set from Amazon on BF, they are nice and since they are primarily for storage I'm not too worried about thermal shock. Just don't soak them right after cooking or pull from the freezer and thaw in water.
Most people live an a rectangular shaped dominated world so round wouldn't fit the best...
The Pyrex borosilicate/soda-lime thing is a mix of truth and urban legend, but is mostly nonsense.
http://www.pyrexware.com/index.asp?pageId=30
TLDR: Pyrex bakeware in the US has been made of soda-lime glass for 60+ years--World Kitchen changed nothing.
Borosilicate glass is more thermal-shock resistant, but it's less impact-shock resistant, it's more expensive, and it's tougher on the environment to make. It's used in lab equipment because people are willing to pay big bucks for it and are careful with it, hence the listed downsides aren't that big of a deal. In contrast, a $200 borosilicate lasagna pan that breaks when you drop it wouldn't sell.
^ You can't link to pyrex and expect a straight answer from their marketing department. It's not nonsense, that's why the lab equipment is still borosilicate, and why the kitchen cookware made in the US was too until they tried to cut costs/increase profits. That's what made Pyrex desirable instead of just another brand.
I don't care if something is more impact resistant, in those cases I'd not buy glass cookware at all. Impact on the environment? What's the impact if you have to keep buying more cookware?
Do you have any sources claiming the change happened 60 years ago? I'm fairly sure it was more recent than that, many sources claim the sale to World Kitchen in 1998 subsequently caused it, for goods manufactured in their US plant at least.
Borosilicate lasagne pans are hardly $200, here's an example for $60 regular price which occasionally goes on sale for $35 delivered - http://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Lasagne-Silicone-large-White/dp/B004QM97OS
However, there's no way I'd pay the premium for borosilicate on something equivalent to this bowl set, as I don't expect to go freezer to oven cooking in it.
Borosilicate, Shumroilicate... It doesn't matter to the kids if the glass containers are made from borosilicate or tempered soda-lime. They'll break them either way...
People that use glass kitchenware shouldn't throw stones...