Green Bags (foodsaver by Debbie Meyer)................?

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Permalink Reply by Sabrina on March 22, 2008 at 10:48am

I am not sure I know exactly what you're talking about. I thought you were referring to the organic "green bags" that you can buy for grocery shopping rather than using plastic/paper bags everytime.

-Sabrina

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Permalink Reply by Goony on March 22, 2008 at 11:12am

I changed the title to make more sense. Sorry. These bags are advertised on TV to keep your produce fresh for a really long time, and I'm just wondering if they are all their hyped up to be. I just threw away a cucumber yesterday cause it was looking pretty sad. It would be nice to not have to go to the grocery store so often. If these things are safe, I could stop going so much.

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Permalink Reply by Whole_Body_Healer on March 22, 2008 at 11:15am

Me too! More details...I'm not sure what you're talking about. But, I would say that anything that is plastic, at some point will be toxic, due to the amount of time it takes to bio-degrade.

I use green bags I bought from Whole Foods, and they are made of cloth. The other thing I use are Bio Bags, like for the garbage bag liner of the kitchen garbage container. These are made of corn & are bio-degradable. I think I read somewhere that it only takes 8 days for them to degrade. They have doggy poop bags too!

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Permalink Reply by Goony on March 22, 2008 at 12:39pm

I can't believe you haven't heard of these! I think I see this commercial several times a week. Here's the website so you can see the commercial.

http://www.greenbags.com/

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Permalink Reply by Whole_Body_Healer on March 22, 2008 at 1:23pm

Oh THOSE green bags! Now I get it...thanks for the link...that helped clear things up. I have used Evertfresh Green bags. They look similar. I can't speak for the specific ones you mentioned, but I think the ones I've tried are ok. They do seem to keep things fresher longer & if you use your produce in a timely manner, you can re-use the bags. HOWEVER, if you "forget" about something like a cuke going bad...yuck! I just toss the whole thing, including the bag! I agree with you about going to the store, but I have kinda resigned myself to having to go once or twice a week. The bags are helpful, but one should really not be leaving the produce in there that long anyway! So, I think it's a toss-up.

The other thing I do is to recycle the bags that I get from Whole Foods or wherever that I buy the produce in...just bring them to the store & use them the next week. Whole Foods out here gives you $0.05 per recycled bag-produce & the big carry out one. You can either take it off your bill or donate it, which I always do-to the Leukemia Foundation. I LOVE this...makes me feel good that I'm not adding a lot of plastic to the planet landfills and I'm donating regularly to a good cause. I suppose you could do the same thing with those green bags too & bring them to the store. Hope we're on the same page now, yes?

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Permalink Reply by Sherry on March 22, 2008 at 6:09pm

Jennifer - I just bought these bags yesterday at Bed Bath & Beyond!! Seems like my organic produce spoils much quicker, so I'm hoping that these will help the shelf life - even a couple of days would mean so much. I go through most of it quickly since I started juicing, but the lettuce and kale go bad fast in the frig, and the fruit (mostly for my kids) doesn't last long either. So, I'll be the guinea pig here and let you know how they work. Wish me luck!

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Permalink Reply by LauraB on March 23, 2008 at 8:40am

The Evertfresh bags, I purchased at Whole Foods really do keep your produce fresh a lot longer. I use them to keep the veggies fresh for about a week. They claim to keep them longer, but I still like to buy fresh after about a week. I haven't tried any other brand of these bags. Although they all have similar claims, I am faithful to Whole Foods. I am interested if anyone hears anything alarming about these bags. Great topic!

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Permalink Reply by Jan H on March 23, 2008 at 9:01am

I bought the Green Bags a few weeks ago, and I have to tell you that they seem to work. My husband's bananas lasted over a week, which is good since brown 'nanas look really yucky. He had to go out of town for work, so I tossed his grapes in one bag, and they still looked fresh when he got home, which was surprising to both of us. I needed a little chopped red onion, since they don't sell them that way, I had no choice ... so I tossed the rest of the red onion in the green bag. It's been in there just over a week, no smell, and it looks really fresh - it's getting used today, so that's a good thing.

As far as the health concerns with plastic ... well, I'm going out on a limb here. No, plastic is not good. Neither is decomposing veggies & fruit. It's a situation of "pick your battle" on this. Hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle on August 16, 2008 at 1:50am

OHHHH I got the Bags yesterday. Actually , my husband found them in Whole foods and came running up to the cart like a kid! I had to buy them for him!
I have mushrooms, avocados and broccoli in them. I will let you know what happens.
Peace Out

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Permalink Reply by Vicki C on August 16, 2008 at 10:42am

I just saw something about this on the Food Network, Alton Brown did a thing about them. I guess they tested them against regular ziplocks and the bags provided in the grocery aisle at most supermarkets. Apparently bananas were the only thing that fared a tiny bit better in the "green bags" (in their testing anyway) and Alton said for the cost (about a dollar each), its really not worth it. Wonder if the episode/info is on the foodtv website? I'll be curious to hear more how people here are faring with them though. I am the queen of produce spoilage...
Vicki C.

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Permalink Reply by Jan H on August 16, 2008 at 1:47pm

Well, here's my update on the Greenbags - I've been using them for just over 4 months (and reusing them as well), I'm pretty happy with them. We had gone to the Farmer's Market about 6 weeks ago, picked up some incredible red scallions. So, I cleaned them up, and put them in the greenbag in the crisper. Well, grapes got tossed on them, let's just say 5 weeks worth of in/out of the crisper of veggies ... and Tuesday, I *found* my scallions. After trimming off 3/4 of the greens and one layer of the onion, they were perfect! We ate them in a salad (Mr. Wonderful did not realize how old they were, and we're not going to tell him, are we?), they were just fine - crisp and oniony. Romaine & Red Leaf holds up ok, but the problem is that I can't get them dry enough before I put them in the bag, so at the end of the bag, the lettuce is a little "tired". I'm still on the original box of 10 bags purchased in March.

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Permalink Reply by Tina! on August 17, 2008 at 4:33pm

Thanks for posting Goony,

I have had these on my "list" also and am curious to read the replies...I am pretty good about most of my produce, but still need something like I think!!!

Tina

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