Tip #5 - Getting Crazy with Your Yogurt Containers
Instead of packaging your left over food or packing your lunch in plastic baggies, 
aluminum foil or even a paper bag, get creative and use the containers floating around your drawers and refrigerator. Old washed out butter tubs, yogurt containers or even spaghetti sauce jars can serve as a great and cheap alternative way to store your food. If you’re not fond of this idea, invest in a set of Tupperware containers. Not only are you ultimately saving on waste, time and money, but you are also giving a helping hand to the environment.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I agree! All of these disposable containers (gladware, Ziploc, etc.) along with plastic bags drive me nuts! I buy them, but treat them as reusable. The lid it usually the first thing to break but I find uses for the containers. I have a variety of animals (not all with fur) and use these as water bowls, bathing containers, feeder insect homes. I go crazy if I see someone take ziploc bag then toss it. Call me frugal, but I wash out this type of bag and reuse. It really isn’t the $$ as much as it is the landfill issue.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Btw, I have Tupperware that I have had for decades - honestly - that I still use!
May 31st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
If plastic containers are too bulky or heavy: Reusable Bags sells a wonderful cloth “Wrap-N-Mat” “Food safe, PEVA liner that wipes clean” closes with velcro http://www.reusablebags.com/store/wrapnmat-p-2.html
I wrap sandwiches as well as veggies in the mats and at the end of the day, wipe them clean.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Thanks for the tip Judy. The Wrap-N-Mat is pretty cool. I’m thinking about getting one for myself.