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Eco Friendly Fresh Snack Packs

052209-snacks.jpg It's time for picnics, road trips, vacations and long days spent at the park or beach. If you're planning on taking your snacks and lunches with you, these PVC-free, non-toxic plastic and reuseable bags can hold anything from a BLT to Goldfish crackers and even a pasta salad! Details and another view after the jump...

 
 

Crystal Figlietti was tired of the waste generated by individual zip lock bags. She's a mother of three and when she did the math (3 kids times 2 bags a day for a school year) she decided to take action and thus Fresh Snack Packs were born.

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They come in two different sizes, a sandwich size that is 8" x 6" closed and fits a whole sandwich or a large portion of fruit or snacks (8" x 17 1/2" when opened flat). Plus there's a smaller snack size that's 6" x 4" closed and is perfect for a handful of crackers or fruit (6" x 12" when opened flat). They retail at $4.50 and $5.50 each and would be a great thing to have packed in your picnic basket this summer. Plus, once lunch is gone, small found treasures can be stored in them for the ride home!


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green ideas, vacation, lunch, container, picnic, snacks, road trip, reuseable

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Pretty cool. I love how they are reusable! They would be great for snacks in your purse, too.

posted by wednesdayaddams on May 24th 2009 at 12:06pm
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In my book zip-lock bags ARE re-usable. Are you insane? That's why they zip - so you can use them again. You just have to wash them and rinse. They can die after a while but, sheesh.

Isn't the point to SEAL in freshness? These, and all the fabric ones, are a gimmick. Bread and biscuits (cookies) won't keep well or for long, with the air getting to them, and with these ones above - you keep anything moist and you gotta worry about leakage/keeping them upright in the bag, easy for your purse maybe, for your kid?.

I'm really sick of these so-called 'eco' products that are ridiculous. I appreciate these ones in particular would be useful for some things. But rather than buy them, I could use the lunch boxes or zip-lock bags I already own, over and over. That's far more eco-friendly than buying another thing that's marketed to me as making my life more 'green'. Am I alone in this or does no-one else want to buy eco gimmicks they don't need either?

posted by Rayna on May 25th 2009 at 4:13am
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