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AdventureGirl



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Location: Cheltenham
PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 06 7:26 pm    Post subject: What to wrap the kids' sandwiches in? Reply with quote
    

Hi, I currently wrap my kids' sandwiches in the thinnest plastic sandwich bags I can find. They also take a scone which goes in another bag.

I'd like to find an alternative to the plastic bags but am struggling. I have tried paper bags, but the moisture from the cool pack, or their yoghurt soaks through the bag. Tried using the paper out of cereal boxes; wrapping like a parcel with a bit of sellotape to hold it; but I think that they feel a bit weird unwrapping such a parcel at school!

Plastic sandwich boxes won't fit inside their insulated lunch box, and also unless the sandwich is exactly the right size for the box it falls apart.

So, what do you all do?

Would finding biodegradable bags be my best bet? I have found one place online that sells them, but I'd have to buy tonnes to make the p&p worthwhile. Am I likely to find them in any shops? Or are there any websites you can recommend?

Thanks for any ideas you can give me.

Cheers

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 06 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

there is a recentish thread on this subject but i cant recall the name
i think we settled on well designed nesting boxes
sorry to be vague ,its there somewhere

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 06 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gotcha

environmentally freindly alternatives to clingfilm

Penny Outskirts



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 06 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Snap beat me to it:

https://forum.downsizer.net/about15898.html

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 06 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

but you can work the magic link thing

Chick-pea



Joined: 02 Aug 2006
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Location: Cheshire, England
PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 06 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I give the kids their sandwiches in reused plastic bags. I have a cupboard full of plastic bags - bread bags, fruit and veg bags, cereal bags (I don't wrap them up with string, I just bunch them up and seal with a clip-it).

I noticed I was forever throwing out plastic bags and also periodically buying a box of sandwich bags, and I thought "This is barmy". So now I save them and reuse them.

Northern_Lad



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 06 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Can you trust them to return re-sealable bags?

You should be able to get a good number of usages out of them.

DIYish



Joined: 25 Sep 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 06 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mine has his own baggie which he washes himself and keeps in his bag with the rest of his reused utensils...and if he 'loses it' (he's highly put out that he cant have a new one each day)...he doesnt get another one until we finish a bread lol. its a good deterrent against losing them.

oh and i wash my ziploc's out all the time...theyre great until someone pokes a hole in them...and never EVER defrost them in the microwave *ahem*...melty..

New Brunswick



Joined: 31 Dec 2006
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Location: New Brunswick, Canada
PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 06 6:18 pm    Post subject: kids sandwiches Reply with quote
    

Hi I have 3 at school all having sandwiches and I use Tupperware oyster packs. they are small enough to fit in sandwich boxes, can take 3 slices of bread without squishing them or 2 rolls with a bit of squishing! We have used them for the last 6 years ( since the eldest started school) and they still have the same ones

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