reusable snack bags

I freeze my sandwich bags and so I reuse them several times before I get rid of them... however, I've seen these reuseable snack bags, and I've seen some ways to craft your own snack bags....

EWWW on the reusing of regular sandwich baggies! Sorry, I know it helps money wise, but that just seems gross to me. I've never really sent my kids to school with a lunch. They generally get free lunch, so I'd just make them eat at school. I know the food isn't great there, but it's free and they have a few different choices, and they're fine with it. I submitted the app for free/reduced lunch this year and am waiting to hear. I should at least get reduced based on their income chart that came with the application. Last I knew reduced prices were 25 cents each. That's $1 a day for my kids. Still probably cheaper than sending them with a home made lunch. Although last time they had reduced meals we ended up with weird problems, like over charges for little things the kids didn't realize weren't part of lunch, like a fruit cup or something. I never had any issues with free lunch. Plus some of the kids like to eat breakfast at school also (even though they eat breakfast at home too). Something I wasn't concerned with when it was free.. but I might be concerned when it's reduced or full price. I guess we'll see. If they don't give the kids reduced or free lunch I probably will send them with a home made lunch everday.. what a pain that will be. But it will be cheaper than paying full price for the school lunch. I will then just buy a normal lunch bag and normal sandwich baggies to send with them. I might also buy those frozen pb&j sandwiches sometimes to send with them. Expensive, but quick and easy.. which I like, LOL.

this sounds like a great idea in theory but not so much when kids take sticky snacks or forget about the bag in their locker for a week at a time. we use plastic and wash them out too.

I think it would be a big trouble to make these..you would need some kind of plastic lining so crunchy things wouldn't get soggy and then maybe the smaller hands couldn't manage the Velcro you'd need to use for closure. Best to go to the dollar store for snack bags or that same store for plastic containers. I used small plastic containers for my kids' snacks when they were in school or they could grab one after school. Economical, not wasteful and they kept stuff fresh and crunchy. Washing out snack bags is just gross to me. I never re-use plastic or foil, that's beyond frugality in my opinion.

Seems a bit pricey. I would use the plastic resealable ones - at one time I re used everything - even washed tin foil ti re use. Those little bags are a good idea to divide slid's snacks into as if they have a normal size bag then they tend to waste so much. Once a week get the kids to help you to divide the snacks into the little plastic bags and then they can grab or you pack one to put into their lunch box

Yeah I would stick with the cheaper disposable kind only because if you can reuse them you are saving a great deal. As for the re-usable I find them rather expensive and can see them getting soiled just as quickly as the cheaper brands.

I think any kind of ziploc bag can be reusable, especially if it contains something dry. Then you only need shake out the crumbs. They are not so hard to wash, but a pain to dry. If they get junky, then just throw them away. Don't fall for the new gimmick bags.

I have seen plastic "brown bags" but I know that is not what you are talking about. Reusable bags to put the food in directly sound a bit yucky to me, unless I can put them through the dishwasher. That is what I do with heavier bags that food comes in or that I use. I turn them inside out and put them in the dishwasher. When I did pack lunches I liked taking large bags of chips and making single servings and things like that, but I also like the inexpensive reusable plastic containers. It keeps from getting your food crushed.

I agree that $9 seems rather expensive for a bag for their sandwich and does it have plastic inside of it to keep it cleaner? I would hope so. If I were craftier and could sew I might try to look at these and make some to resell at a cheaper price, but I do not know how to sew. I also recycle plastic bags for things like this. I do not see any reason to throw them away if all they have had in them were a sandwich or simple snack.

I think that you might be able to come up with a design to make reusable sandwich and snack bags for your children and even to be something that you could sell for a profit. With a little bit of quick thought, I don't really think that it would be that difficult to do. The only thing that I can think of that might be a problem would be to make them dishwasher safe. Of course, there is really nothing wrong with having a few things that you need to wash by hand.

We all have the responsibilities to protect the environment,so it's pretty a good idea to use reusable snack bags.I agree with you,it's indeed a unique and excellent idea.Good luck and we all share our contribute to the society.

I believe you will deal with.