I just read Ian's blog about plastic, cluttering up our oceans, killing fish, leaving a disgusting legacy for an awful long time. School starts tomorrow - yippee!!- and the school has asked for litterless lunches. That is such a challenge. Everything is prepackaged, there are only plastic sandwich baggies, what is a busy mom to do? I googled it. This is what I found. You can make little fabric baggies for a song. (If songs were currency, it would be anything by Jason Mraz, but I digress) I found a quick instruction for bags that will hold anything dry - goldfish, cookies, pretzels - get me? for a few hours until lunch. Think about it. The food is kept in a lunch bag lined in fabric and only needs to be kept out of harms way for about 2 and half hours until lunch. Easy peasy. I admit to being addicted to sewing. This little bags took no time to create and I was able to make about 25 (one for each day of the week, for three kids plus a few extras) in a few hours and for nothing but the cost of velcro and my time. I surveyed my stash of fabric and found a few scraps kicking around that would work for both boys and girls. I made them up and they are ready to go for tomorrow. I know that it may not fix the ocean's plastic issue but I guess that each creative step to eliminate/reduce our plastic usage is one in the right direction.
My camera died - I will buy one this week and post a few photos of the bags but until then, here are some cool sites that have interesting green packaging ideas for lunches. Give it a try!
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-sew-a-reusable-sandwich-bag/2009/06/17/
http://www.wrap-n-mat.com/
http://www.everythingmom.com/organic-reviews/reusable-sandwich-bags-reusable-snack-bags.html
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