An alternative to plastic baggies for lunches
With school starting back up I am guessing you are packing a few more lunches than you were at this time last month, well, if you have kids at least. When packing a lunch for school, work, or even a picnic or outing with little ones how can you avoid using all those little plastic baggies?
Well, you can pack things in reusable containers. I tried that for awhile and ran in to a few problems.
- To pack everything in my lunch box into a reusable container takes a lot of containers, 4 to 5 per day.
- To avoid having 20 or 30 containers around, I have to wash those containers every single day.
- It's tricky to find a lunch box and container combo that fits well with a water bottle and an ice pack without carrying a smaller cooler along with me.
- Saving and washing out the plastic bags I use. Ok for snacks sometimes but kind of a pain overall.
Click on the thumbnails to see some solutions to the plastic baggie dilemma.
You could always match up containers you already have and sew a bag to hold them or find a bag they fit in. It's not quite as cool though, but it might do for now. And really, being green should be about using what you have first, right?
How do you pack your lunch?
[Via Eat. Drink. Better.]
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