I use aluminum foil mostly and then put that in recycling. I don't freeze much aside from cookie dough ready to bake and some Bolognese sauce for emergencies, which I freeze in a Pyrex bowl. Some breadstuffs go in the freezer too.

We rarely freeze anything but when we do we use zip lock plastic bags.

kathgrdn, I think you mean silicone, not silicon.

Thanks Elmer, I fixed it. I can't spell in my old age.

No issue for me. There is such a thing as silicon, it's the major component (by weight and size) of semiconductor electronic devices. But the two are quite different.

Using one word when referring to the other seems to be very, very common, in both directions. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people (from elsewhere) describe where I live as being Silicone Valley. .

I bought some on Amazon and I really like them. I also use them to store opened cheese in my fridge drawer.

I had not heard of them. We use and re-use plastic "freezer bags" ... I assume silicon would last longer?

We, too use and reuse plastic bags. When I buy packages of chicken I try to carefully unwrap them so the plastic wrap can be reused instead of going straight to the garbage can. Wax paper is used also. My adult daughters use waxed fabric to wrap foods.

I had to get them for #1DD a few years back..got them off Amazon. Now I see you can buy them at Menards-so probably anywhere. The idea of cleaning inside corners, small crevasse keeps me from being interested. A fleeting idea to 'save the world' when people should just STOP buying bottled water!!!

I keep seeing those bags for sale in lots of places now, and they do seem interesting, but I'm trying to avoid buying more stuff that's a want, not a need.

I already use wide mouth glass jars to store cheese and many other things - much easier to keep clean than bags, IMO, and keeps things from getting squashed.

Nope, i don't. What I think might catch on more would be BPA-free, cheapo disposable liners sold in family-pak size (similar to the way fold-top baggies are sold), and which come in several sizes. They should be accordion-pleated along the sides and base. And sized so that Size-One would fit, say, most small containers. Size-Two would fit most medium containers. And Size-Three would fit most large containers.

Then those disposable liners can be inserted inside most-sizes of containers.

Why do I say this? Well, you may consider this primitive but, for example, to store soups or even meat, I sometimes use Budget gallon-size food-storage bags, which used to come in 100-packs (i'm not up-to-date on how many per pack it's down to now). I use the gallon-bags to line a 1.3quart rubbermaid-container, or even an empty marshmallow-fluff container. I then fold over the excess plastic over the external-side of the rim, after which I put the lid on, which effectively covers both the rubbermaid-rim-plus-makeshift-liner.

For mushroom sauce or gravy, I use budget Fold-Top sandwich-baggies as Liners inside discontinued Smart-Balance containers (which used to be this size:

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I love it, because it keeps the containers from getting greasy, and there's barely a need to wash anything. (I don't own a dishwasher, never have, and probably never will)

When I buy packages of chicken I try to carefully unwrap them so the plastic wrap can be reused

You actually reuse wrap from raw chicken? There is no possible way to clean that carefully removed wrap to insure it's free of contaminants.

Wow - didn't catch that until now - yikes!

What are you using that chicken wrapping for, Rho?

I guess I didn't read too carefully either.

Oh...that makes sense Rho. :0)