RECYCLE and REUSE
"Cereal Bags"
My Thoughts
Cereal bags.. At first I thought they served only one purpose which was to keep the cereal dry and safe from any water or contamination. Then, after you use up of all the cereal, you throw the box and the bag inside of it away. Right? WRONG. Did you know that the bags that hold the cereal inside the box have different purposes you can use? I do and I love using the empty cereal bags. I have been using them for over 6 months now and love it! They are easy to clean, sturdy and do a great job! What do I use these bags for you ask? Let me break it down.
Some uses of left over cereal bags:
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Freezer Bags:
- Did you know that cereal bags make wonderful freezer bags? They do. If you are like me, I buy extra hamburger, chicken, etc to be used down the road to cook. Especially if you don't plan to cook it until next week or so and do not want it spoiling in your refrigerator. But you may have also experienced the pain of finding out that your frozen meat has gotten freezer burn. Which sucks!! Then you invest in buying freezer bags which sometimes still don't work out well... So not only you lost money by food going bad due to freezer burn, you also lost money by buying crappy freezer bags. Cereal bags make awesome freezer bags. It protects my food a whole lot better than any freezer bag (Name brand or off brand) that I have ever bought. Just rinse off bag really good, let it air dry and then stick your choice of meat in side of it and put in the freezer. I use either food clips to keep it closed or bread ties.
- Fruits and Vegetables:
- Cereal bags also make great bags to cover fruit and vegetables to help keep them fresh longer. You could use regular zip lock bags but they will not stay as fresh longer than it would in a cereal bag. Or you could just buy the produce refrigerator bags but they are not cheap either. So save your money and next time you finish up a box of cereal, save the bag and save even more money. I also use bead ties to keep it closed.
- And more uses:
- Table covers for paint activities
- Cookie sheet
- Small pan cover
- And so much more!
Next Rating: Recycle and Reuse: Use for dishwasher tray
Cereal Boxes! (besides crafts, of course) I use various boxes for potting plants. The work as well as peat pots--the soil packed cardboard containers soak up the water hydroponically from trays I place them in--and they are biodegradable. By the time the roots break through, the plants are harder and ready to put in the soil.
ReplyDeleteThats pretty cool too! Thanks!
DeleteThe plants are: 'hardier'. ;-)
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