Ziplocs are like a purgatory for leftover food. Case in point.
There are eight carrot slices left over after a meal. If there were only three or four, you’d toss them. But eight? You got to save eight. So out comes a small Ziploc to house the eight slices which are then relegated to the lower shelf of the refrigerator and shoved to the back, only to be discovered 2 or 3 weeks later.
What are these orange, gray and blue things in the little Ziploc?
Oh, eight slices of carrots. Now you can toss them.
We use a gazillion Ziplocs. Maybe not a whole gazillion but easily a half of a gazillion. We have an entire drawer devoted to the square plastic bags. We have big ones, little ones, and sizes in between.
But this entire article is meant to enlighten all my fellow Ziplockers that perhaps the handiest size of all is the half-gallon size.
I had never really noticed them until last week when I picked up a box by mistake. Instead of the gallon size, which we go through like hot pancakes at a church breakfast, I figured I’d try these.
They are ideal. You rarely completely fill a gallon size but you can squeeze a ton of stuff in the half gallon bags and they almost make the larger size obsolete. It’s a perfect purgatory size for storing, say, leftover pasta. Who eats leftover pasta? Wait till it turns blue, then toss it.
In the meantime – if you haven’t already – try the half gallon size Ziplocs. They’re great.
