$$: Plastic Ziplock Alternatives

One of the best things about two weeks’ worth of school vaca­tion is two weeks’ break from pack­ing lunches.

[So shoot me.  If I were a really good mom, I’d say the best part of vaca­tion is being with my kids, right?]

Last year I exper­i­mented with using waxed paper sand­wich bags instead of plas­tic ziplock sand­wich bags and I rather liked them.  It wasn’t until school started again this fall that The Daugh­ter informed me that she hated them — rea­son being that I made her sand­wiches the night before and with­out the air­tight seal of a ziplock, the bread would be stale by lunch time the next day.  The Son, whose lunches were usu­ally made in the morn­ing before school (remem­ber he went to a dif­fer­ent school and left later in the morn­ing), didn’t have the same prob­lem and there­fore had no issue with the waxed sand­wich bags.

Now that both chil­dren leave early in the morn­ing before I’m full awake, I make their lunches the night before so I’ve stopped using the waxed bags.  I was just surf­ing around and quite acci­den­tally came across these Sand­wich Wraps.  I won­der how effec­tive they are at keep­ing made-the-night-before sand­wiches fresh?  Right now, between sand­wiches and fruit, I go through about 15 plas­tic bags per week.  I’d love to find an effec­tive, prac­ti­cal alternative.

Related posts:

1. $$: School Lunches, Milk, & Vitamins
2. Day 162: Food and Shakespeare
3. Apple­gate Farms “Rock the Box” Lunch Box Contest
4. Day 25
5. Dou­ble Dipping