After being invited to many potlucks and picnics this summer, I realized I needed a more useful way to bring food. Although I do have certain dishes that I use for going to events, I always need to remember what I took or if we leave early I have to remove part of the buffet, when taking my dishes of food home. Therefore, an inspiration came to me recently as I was crushing  a large rectangular plastic contain that had spinach leaves in it.

Why not keep these and reuse them to:

1. •transport food for picnics,
   

2. •meals for people with babies or illness
   

3. •when you share leftovers with other people after a large meal?
   

This works beautifully! I printed labels and attached them to the lids with double sided tape (just for the cute factor), placed them in my reusable Shop Wise Bags and went to the picnic. Although our city does take all of these in the recycling program, I’ve decided to give them a little more use before sending them to be made into another container or bottle.

Little changes like these start the process of reducing the ‘waste footprint’ we all have. Be innovative with the items in your life that can be used in many ways before they are thrown away.

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