Clever food wrapping

[Ganymede]

I was reading this article http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/25/five-best-re-usable-sandwich-wrappers - good in itself - then followed the link for this:

http://abeego.com/ - this looks like such a great idea!

I'm on my third day in bed with a truly frightful fluey cold so have decided to just follow links whenever I see them.

I thought the description of mining conditions/food/tea/unorthodox use of lunchboxes in the comments on the Graun article was brilliant.

 

[Haitch]

They should invent a packaging material that shrinks to the size of the contents. The more you use, the less space it takes up.

 

[Ganymede]

A nameless cyclist offered to share his peanut-butter sandwich with me once, and when I agreed he produced said sandwich from the back pocket of his cycling jersey - not wrapped in anything at all.

Ewwww...

I found a site showing you how to make your own waxed wrap from cotton squares and beeswax. Might try it, thought I think the Abeego mix of oils is obviously superior. You can't buy it here, alas.

 

[coffeejo]

I was reading this article http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/25/five-best-re-usable-sandwich-wrappers - good in itself - then followed the link for this:

http://abeego.com/ - this looks like such a great idea!

I'm on my third day in bed with a truly frightful fluey cold so have decided to just follow links whenever I see them.

I thought the description of mining conditions/food/tea/unorthodox use of lunchboxes in the comments on the Graun article was brilliant.

Looks good.

 

[raleighnut]

I've been using empty icecream tubs since I started work in 76 they now get recycled when damaged instead of being thrown away. (the black 'Kelly's Cornish clotted cream icecream' ones are perfect)

 

[Ganymede]

Not ewwww at all, it was delicious.

Ah, I thought I detected a moment of jaw-droppery there, obv not. Perhaps there was an extra quality to them as a result. It does seem to me that as long as a sarnie is not perilously constructed it doesn't need too much extra support - I often just put mine in a paper bag (my grocer still uses them so they are all re-used). But I thought the wrap stuff looked lighter than using Tupperware - it is after all a historical technique to use wax cloth, the one I linked to (abeego) is just a more advanced version of it. Hell, I'll use anything that's free and reusable.

I did without cling film in the kitchen for years and years but I do like to reduce the use of stuff that just gets chucked out such as various kinds of paper. I have these sort of things for cake tins: http://www.lakeland.co.uk/18271/Del...4744!&ef_id=UGiIYAAAERw97yFx:20140926094721:s (there's a long strip too for going round the sides of a tin).

 

[tadpole]

Empty Aldi ice-cream tubs hold two sandwiches, a chocolate bar and a small bag of chrips. without damage or crushing. They had dozens of other uses as well tool spare part, small useful things in the ramitin draw. even frozen food in the freezer. and they come free with a litre of ice-cream

 

[Ganymede]

Re the naked sandwich - I was ****ing starving. I agree about the other stuff really.

As Laura Ingalls Wilder's Ma always said, "Hunger is the best sauce".

they come free with a litre of ice-cream

 

[Archie_tect]

I've been using empty icecream tubs since I started work in 76 they now get recycled when damaged instead of being thrown away. (the black 'Kelly's Cornish clotted cream icecream' ones are perfect)

+! ... perfect for picnics on the tandem!

 

[Ganymede]

Hmm, seems I need to work harder at finding an ice-cream/takeaway/marge container that actually fits the sarnies I make. I buy perfectly ordinary bread, it shouldn't be so hard!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Hmm, seems I need to work harder at finding an ice-cream/takeaway/marge container that actually fits the sarnies I make. I buy perfectly ordinary bread, it shouldn't be so hard!

Save the bags the bread comes in and use them, for some strange reason sandwiches fit in them perfectly.

 

[welsh dragon]

I tend to find that a lot of these gizmos and gadgets dont work. There more trouble than they're worth. Any old container will do.

 

[Chromatic]

Hmm, seems I need to work harder at finding an ice-cream/takeaway/marge container that actually fits the sarnies I make. I buy perfectly ordinary bread, it shouldn't be so hard!

This is where you are going wrong, you need to buy bread that fits the containers you already have.

 

[welsh dragon]

Save the bags the bread comes in and use them, for some strange reason sandwiches fit in them perfectly.

My mum used to do that years ago with our sandwiches that we took to scnool. They were great and worked well.

They were the old greased proof bags.

 

[MisterStan]

Save the bags the bread comes in and use them, for some strange reason sandwiches fit in them perfectly.

When I was at school, all the poorer kids used to use them and we got ridiculed for it.

Kids can be so cruel....