FYI, reusable produce bags exist!
I just don’t put them in bags until checkout… Not sure if the cashier hates me or not.
I try to avoid plastic waste, but am too absent minded to remember my reusables. So I do the same thing the only time the bagger gets told to keep things separate is if there are potatoes and onions. Those things need to be kept separate!
You guys put all the fresh stuff in plastic bags? Why not just straight into the shopping bag?
Yeah, I keep wondering when I last used a plastic bag. These days it’s either prepackaged, directly in the shopping bag or a paper bag.
Because it costs by the pound and you want to make it easy to weigh all vegetables together
Yeah same. Personal preference I guess.
Theres no reason to put most produce in bags. I don’t know why people are obsessed with plastic. People even put bananas in bags… Theyre already bagged!
I just don’t want anything touching the cart surface, I doubt they sanitize those regularly
There is no part of the growing, harvesting, cargo packing, transportation, or store stocking process that’s making your produce too pristine to be soiled by a cart. A ride in a bag a couple miles to your house isn’t going to sanitize it either.
You realize you’re supposed to wash your produce when you get home, right? There’s still pesticides on there.
I do, it’s just a psychological thing I guess, I’ve started taking my own reusable bag to the grocery store these days to cut down on plastic though
I use one bag but have my veggies out and separate. And unless it’s potatoes and/or any alum family, I tell them to just toss them all in the same bag.
NO BANNNNNANNNNNA!
I have banana friends. I’m gonna meet you all now.
I put the bag between my palms and rub back and forth a bunch of times. It works as long as you have both hands free (and you have two hands).
The Mr. Miyagi method!
Exactly.
I usually wet the tip and rub it over and over until it comes.
Usually get some looks at the store but it works 100% of the time.
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what if I have three hands?
Even better. You can hold your fruit in the third hand while rubbing the bag with your other two.
I was at my local walmart today…
The plastic bag is folded on the sides. I have much more success if I start by pulling there, than attacking the opening directly. Hard to explain but you’ll figure it out.
I just find the non sealed end and make the pspspspsp (cat call) finger motion and it opens up well enough when I have to use the bags
That requires friction between fingers and bag to be higher than friction between the two sides of the plastic bag, and for me it never is
I love that you described it as the “cat call finger motion”. I knew what you meant immediately
Dont lick your finger, the veggies get sprayed with water. Wet your finger with the clean water and the bag will open for you. Just like everything else in this life: Its better when its wetter.
Except paper bags and toilet paper before you wipe
And socks.
And toilet seats.
A duvet that hasn’t been fully dried is miserable to sleep in.
Dear god. I’m going to have a nightmare about that tonight I think. Just the weird awkward weight…the odd humidity nearby…the impending thought of mildew…
It’s the weird damp sensation when you lay it over you that does it for me. Makes my skin crawl thinking about it.
You people just creeped me out. Like, I was going to close the page.
Nearly too much internet for a sec there.
I got over it.
You can also just breath onto the bag too. Just enough to get the condensation to lightly form and it does the same thing. Although I also just grab a drop of water that’s on the produce container where it sprays sometimes.
Same with trying to peel double-sided tape
This is an easy answer, stick down one side first then use a finger nail to pick at a corner. But most of my experience with this is the clear 3m tape on cheap heat sinks, so most of the time it already stuck down on the heat sink.
Gently blowing on the opening sometimes works
Bring your own reusable bag.
just remember which side is the opening, or you’ll accidentally tear the wrong side
I’d proudly and, like a snob, tell you that I’ve ascended beyond plastic bags by using reusable nets.
But I also keep forgetting the nets at home, so I use the plastic bags and promise myself not to forget. Only to forget again. FUCK.
You’re paying for the weight of that net at the register though, not much at once but it adds up.
Interesting, our supermarket has a provision for that, but I also weigh just the stuff without net, before packing it. So at least that’s working okay for me
Actually we mostly use paper bags in our stores now, because they’re in a well integrated system where they can get recycled into something else.
That said, nets are a good idea which works every time you bring them. Which isn’t often.
You remember while walking out of the front door, but tell yourself it’s too much effort to go back and get them, only to regret forgetting them and not going back for them while it was easy right?
Most of the produce bags here have handles. I found that the meeting place where the “handle” meets the “bag” to be the easiest spot to separate. I just rub the bag between my fingers in that area and usually it only takes a single rub for it to separate.
Hold the middle of the side that is supposed to open between your pointer finger and thumb and slide them in opposite directions. It almost always works for me :D
I have zero issue opening these bags but for some reason my mom and siblings really struggle.
Woah look at hr.reasonablymoisthands over here!
