Aren't you clever! Enjoy.

I use them as a piping bag, similar to you, but I mix the icing up, then spoon it into the bag. They work great for that.

What did we do before they were available, so many uses. Relatives in Croatia can't get them there and fell in love with them several years ago on an extended visit. We ship zip locs in their annual package of 'things which cannot be bought'.

Lucille, that was very smart thinking on your part ;)

What a great idea!!

Since we get milk in plastic bags, I seldom if ever buy Ziploc bags. The bags are super-heavy and I use them for freezing, marinating, coating chicken in flour, etc. These bags and outer bags that toilet paper and paper towels come in are recyclable. Ziploc bags aren't.

I also love using the heavy plastic that cereal is in. Invaluable for putting chicken in when pounding, putting dabs of tomato paste on, or fresh fruit and freezing. I also separate my tortilla shells and use cereal liners in between shells before freezing.

Our relatives in India also request these when asked. :) As wonderful as they are, I do worry about how these zillions of bags will ever decompose....

I think that in the future, they nay recycle plastic more than they do now. And the ziploc slider bags can be reused sometimes, if I store crackers in them for freshness, I will use the same Ziploc when I open another sleeve of crackers.

I don't Iike them, although your idea is clever. I cannot bring myself to throw them away. They are still usable and made of too much plastic to simply toss. I end up washing them and propping them on something to dry. I like the plain fold over sandwich bags, or the larger ones with twist ties. I give those a quick rinse and put them in with the grocery bags for recycling.

I use them all the time. Great for organizing small items and I use the extra large ones for freezing shaped cakes right in the pan. I use zips locks as travel organizers and to keep things like underwear away from clothes that may be repacked after wearing. I use Tupperware for most food storage, especially pantry items (straight from the store into Tupperware) but the zip locks are handy for foods like that last cup of beans or rice or whatever that you don't want to merge for the newly opened package.

I have a food saver so use those bags for most things. They are reusable. I run thrm through the dishwasher.

For see through containers for crafting supplies, I love the ziplock type bags.

I too avoid using them as much as possible. Although when need to use them, I like the single or double ziplock bags. I don't like the slider at all. The slider won't let the opening to open all the way when needs to.

Hi jassy,

I see that the outer bags for milk are "recycle 4" ... and am pretty sure that I've been told that the inner bags are, as well. Can you enlighten me?

Also, have you seen a recycle number on the bags holding paper towels, toilet paper, etc? I don't recall having done so.

Are milk cartons recyclable? I think that I've heard that they are in some jurisdictions, but in other places not.

New system here- big plastic can for recycle, free.

Garbage cans in three sizes, smallest provided free by the waste/recycling co. has a depressed area down the middle and a bar across it about half way down, and a lip at the top of the bin so that the truck can have a hand come out to slide up under the lip, and another to grab the bar for lifting and dumping into the truck. Small bin costs $100., mid-sized $270., large is $385. per year, added to taxes annually.

We have had to buy stickers to put on the bags, at $1.75 per ... and I think that I've heard that it went to $2.00 some time ago - haven't bought any.

ole joyful

Ed, the clear inner, and outer milk bags are recylclable. Or quarterly pamphlet from the region explained that the large outer wrappers (toilet paper, etc) are recyclable. Any plastic that doesn't "crinkle". The flimsy produce bags are as are my bags of kitty litter . I just use a kitty litter bag and stuff it with the smaller plastic bags, and they go in the paper recycling.

Juice, milk and half and half cartons, juice boxes, etc are all reyclable, in with the jars and cans.

We still use the blue box, but also have the green bins. Do you have the green bin program? Our region invested heavily in the green bin program and is losing money every year. People are very slow and reluctant to get with it, yet we were the pioneers in blue bin recycling. To force people to green bin (we have 2 green bins, I love them), they're talking about paying by the garbage bag, or have garbage pick up every 2 weeks. They also increased the cost to drop off garbage at the landfill.

Charging people by the bag still fills up the landfill. So it's okay to have garbage, as long as you pay for it? Pretty hypocritical.