If you’re really concerned about your bowled food being air-tight, take the outer bread bag from a recently-finished loaf of bread, cut it open along one side seam and across the bottom so it opens into a flat sheet of plastic and use that to over your bowl it was unfortunately headed into the trash anyway, so give it a few more chances to serve some purpose since you already have it.
If you’re not as into sewing, you can scale back easily to a barebones DIY approach by simply draping a tea towel or handkerchief over a bowl and secure it in place using a large rubber band or even one of those brightly-colored elastic headbands. If you’re good at sewing, or know someone who is (you should always know someone who can do what you can’t), you can have lots of fun following any number of bowl cover sewing patterns out there like these.ĭon’t feel you need to go out and buy new fabric either look around your house and you might find a spare tea towel or pillowcase a quilted placemat makes for a great insulated version and even a vintage handkerchief can get new life as a festive party bowl cover. There are many options for creating your own bowl covers instead of relying on cling wrap.
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Lastly, you could always just not use a produce bag at all, grabbing everything with your bare paws and just letting your fruit and veggies roam free - or as I’m now about to coin it, “free-roll”- from the cart to the cashier’s scale and then straight into your reusable grocery bags. Consider wiping the dirt from the inside and taking that bag right back out with you the next time you shop for produce, giving it added life before the landfill. Other already-existing-resources include the plastic bag from your bulk potato purchase, for example. If you want to keep things easy-peasy, you can always tie a square scarf or bandana into a produce bag with just a few knots (if you don’t own any, you can almost always find a fun selection at secondhand stores). Use Something You Already Have as a Produce Bag Looking for brick and mortar sellers or online sellers that are closer to home will also reduce the packaging and shipping footprint of your purchase. If you’re not the sewing type, consider supporting independent makers on places like Etsy sometimes it’s hard to discern who is truly an independent retailer and who is a large commercial company pretending to look indie, but if you dig around enough you can locate handmade produce bags and support mom-n-pop operations at the same time. Remember that much of your produce will get weighed before purchase, so be mindful about using light-weight materials or even waiting to bag your apples until after they’ve hit the scale. There are many options out there for sewing your own produce bags (also crocheted, knitted and knotted, oh my!) and many of these how-to’s repurpose existing household fabrics, like dishtowels, sheets or old t-shirts (psst, jersey doesn’t fray when cut!) so you can likely find all the supplies you need by looking around your home (eg: old pillowcases or net curtains and shoelaces as drawstrings).
As for what type of produce bags you go with, there’s a world of alternative choices. So that you’re not caught off-guard at the store next time, think about stashing some extra ones inside your reuseable grocery bags it’s the beginnings of a good new habit. Produce bags are things we don’t typically think of until we’re faced with a gravity-defying display of fresh peaches while grocery shopping and realize we don’t have the same grabbing powers as an octopus.
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