Friday Favorites: Produce Bags

Ok ok I know I already posted a little bit about these here but I am so in love with them that I just HAD to do a Friday Favorites about them!

Produce bags ROCK!!!

Whenever I go shopping I always bring my reusables, but it always bothered me that I had to put my produce in those plastic bags. It seemed counterproductive and so wasteful. Not to mention who knows what kind of chemicals are seeping into my fruits and veggies from the yucky plastic! Even when I went to the farmer's market they would use plastic bags because what else could they use?

Enter the produce bags.

They're made of almost a mesh like material that allows the produce to breathe (makes sense, since the plastic DOESN'T!) and they have a drawstring to close. They are a pretty good size too. As you saw from last week's post, that's a bag of avocados, a bag of cilantro, a bag with a giant yam, and a bag of lemons and limes. I did not buy enough the first time and was very sad that I couldn't put my bananas in one, but I figured they'd be ok on their own. I was kicking myself for only buying four of them!

So then I went back to Target and of course they were gone. If you ever want anything from the $1 section at Target buy it IMMEDIATELY. Because if you change your mind and go back it will almost always be gone forever. Which is very sad. So my trip to Target ended the way every trip to Target ends...I left without the produce bags but with $50 worth of stuff I had no intention of buying. I cannot be the only person that this happens to.


Then today I had to go to the Target on Transit near Maple and lo and behold there they were, like a beacon in the night.

 

A whole stack of them!!! I will have you know I was not at Target to buy these but I ended up with 5 more because you can never have enough of these! Now my lemons and limes can each have their own bag! The yams and regular potatoes don't have to share! Even the bananas can have a bag! No more cold bananas! 

I hope you can find these at Target in the $1 section nearest you. However, if they are gone you can always get them for a very reasonable price on Amazon. It is definitely worth the price. Think about how much waste is created by bags for produce. I really wish that more people would understand how important it is to use reusable bags when they go grocery shopping. And I sometimes forget my bags! I am not a perfect resuable bag user, but I always recycle them after I use them. The important thing is to do your best to remember to bring your reusables and now include your produce bags too! I keep my reusables hanging on the door that we leave from, and keep the extra produce bags inside those bags. That way I always remember to grab them when I head to the market.

I hope you will try to make this small change in your shopping and storing produce routine! 

Oh! I bet you are wondering how they work at keeping my fruits and veggies fresh? Check out my limes and lemons after a week! Still fresh, still firm, and no soft spots! So I give these two thumbs up! I hope you will too!

Do you use resuable produce bags already? What do you think of them? 

Happy Memorial Day to all!

Love and Laughs,

Danielle