Eco-Friendly Lunches: Plum Creek Mercantile’s Feed Sacks and Bulk Food Bags

I hate plastic bags! I have eliminated plastic bags from my shopping sprees, but I still find myself using them to pack school lunches from time to time or when I forget to bring containers for my bulk food…that is, until I discovered Plum Creek Mercantile on Etsy. Plum Creek Mercantile’s hand sewn, 100% cotton twill bulk food bags and feed sacks are the perfect environmental choice for packaging food from home.

Bulk Food Bags

I try to reuse plastic bulk food bags, but I am constantly annoyed at guessing how much to fill them at the store to fit in my quart and gallon jars at home (which I usually forget to take with me to the store). Plum Creek Mercantile’s bulk food bags are perfect for measuring:

These versatile bags are ideally suited for the bulk bins at your local grocer. You no longer will have leftover beans or grains when you return home to fill your jars. These bags are sized to fit a gallon jar or a quart jar: just fill to the top and you know your jar will be full. The clear window allows easy identification of the product inside and the white tab allows the bin number to be written with a grease pen or a dry erase marker and removed for continued use.

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