{"id":382,"date":"2009-10-28T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/forum\/blog.php\/?p=382"},"modified":"2021-03-13T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:39:20","slug":"66-uses-for-a-bread-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/66-uses-for-a-bread-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"66 uses for a bread bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite our best efforts we don’t always have enough time to bake bread and end up nipping out to buy a loaf. The thing is each loaf comes in its own plastic bag. If you really can’t bring yourself to chuck the bags in the bin as they might have a use, or even if you always throw the bags away here are a few ideas to keep the bags out of a landfill site, at least for a while. All the ideas come courtesy of our forum members, thank you to all who contributed. To add to this list then have a look here. <\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Wrap your sarnies in<\/li>\n
  2. To keep the rubbish in on your way home (banana skins, apple cores etc.)<\/li>\n
  3. Store home made biscuits<\/li>\n
  4. Sick bag for emergency use in the back of the car with the kids<\/li>\n
  5. Little crochet dollies from bread bags<\/li>\n
  6. Keep one in your pocket at all times in case you find berries or mushrooms while you are out<\/li>\n
  7. Cut into strips and use for the tail of a kite<\/li>\n
  8. Or bright ribbons for your hair<\/li>\n
  9. Use as a freezer bag<\/li>\n
  10. Can be used for picking up doggie poop when out walking them<\/li>\n
  11. I always use bread bags for wrapping lunch up in.<\/li>\n
  12. Putting inside shoes or boots to keep water out.<\/li>\n
  13. Ideal for storing tomatoes in for the fridge.<\/li>\n
  14. When cakes you baked are cool wrap cakes in bread bags and store in biscuit tin.<\/li>\n
  15. It’s Christmas, you have got a bag of mixed nuts in their shells and you can’t find the nutcrackers… don’t despair… put the nuts in the bread bag and use a hammer to crack the shells – don’t whack too hard or you’ll have nut butter with lots of shell in it….<\/li>\n
  16. To put over plant pots to aid germination.<\/li>\n
  17. Store balls of wool<\/li>\n
  18. Store your leftover seedbags in at the end of the season<\/li>\n
  19. Cut up into strips and tied to a piece of string over your veggie seedlings to scare the birds<\/li>\n
  20. Rough and ready gloves when handling anything unpleasant- raw liver for example, yeuch!<\/li>\n
  21. Turn into book covers, to make those cheapo paperbacks last longer<\/li>\n
  22. sponge bag when traveling<\/li>\n
  23. makeshift plastic pants for clothbum baby<\/li>\n
  24. a bit rude this one… “but when I lived in Brighton… I remember passing a shop in the lanes on a rainy day and spotted an African sculpture – wooden carving of a man with a huge phallus… that might have been enough to catch my attention…but the fact that both his (ummm how do i put this) head on his shoulders AND the phallus were wearing plastic bags as rainhats…. made it fairly unforgettable!! So.. it can also be a raincover for a statue’s extremeties.”<\/em><\/li>\n
  25. Filled with compost – growbags for smaller plants<\/li>\n
  26. An alternative (and reusable) gift bag<\/li>\n
  27. For storing your CDs to prevent them getting damp<\/li>\n
  28. Keeping your homebaked bread fresh in one<\/li>\n
  29. Keep a box of matches and some kindling in one when you go camping….keep the rain out…<\/li>\n
  30. Fashion into a hat to keep off the rain.<\/li>\n
  31. As a Mt Druitt condom – a plastic bread bag (or part thereof) and a laccy band.<\/li>\n
  32. Collecting seashells and pebbles instead of making your pockets all damp and sandy.<\/li>\n
  33. To put over your keyboard as a guard against coffee.<\/li>\n
  34. Wear the bread bag as a bow tie!<\/li>\n
  35. Mixing a marinade and putting it into a bread bag with your pork chops\/chicken bits<\/li>\n
  36. Use to cover your award winning apples on the tree to protect from blemishes<\/li>\n
  37. blow up and use as a mould for papier mache.<\/li>\n
  38. Filling them up with icing and then snipping off a corner and using it for piping<\/li>\n
  39. Storage of lab samples. (I’m just clearing out our lab freezers – and the number of perfectly good, but by now smelly plastic bags I have to throw out is sickening!)<\/li>\n
  40. A water balloon<\/li>\n
  41. Repair kit for poly tunnels<\/li>\n
  42. Parachute for a toy<\/li>\n
  43. Storing Lego in. I’m sick of treading on the flippin stuff with bare feet<\/li>\n
  44. Gigantic root trainer bag.<\/li>\n
  45. Birth control for an elephant.<\/li>\n
  46. Couple little sticks in the bread bag you have a little cloches or propagator.<\/li>\n
  47. Pin it up on your door indoors and use as a rubbish basket ball hoop<\/li>\n
  48. Fill the bag up with water with some holes in it when camping a portable shower.<\/li>\n
  49. Windsock<\/li>\n
  50. Rolled up and made into a circle and makes a sumo ring for ants.<\/li>\n
  51. Collect slugs in before disposing of them in some nasty way<\/li>\n
  52. Take to the shop\/market to buy your fruit and veg in<\/li>\n
  53. Fashion into masks, using baling twine, as a precaution against bird flu.<\/li>\n
  54. Put on children’s feet under shoes, when shoes have holes in them<\/li>\n
  55. Having just experienced (for the first time in many years) the horrible unpleasantness of a white, processed, polyester loaf of Mother’s Pride ‘bread’ (don’t make me laugh): Disposing of mass produced ‘bread’ in, without ever having to unwrap it.<\/em><\/li>\n
  56. A kite<\/li>\n
  57. When doing bare root work use the bags for going over the roots.<\/li>\n
  58. Put handful of maltesers in, tie, pulverize with blunt object, untie and sprinkle crumbs onto ice cream. Thanks Jamie!<\/li>\n
  59. Use as bag to collect other bread bags ready for recycling<\/li>\n
  60. Use bread bag full of bread bags, loosely filled and then tied off, as makeshift tripod for taking timed photographs (this is a professional trick using carrier bags)<\/li>\n
  61. Use for flouring meat (or mushrooms, ok?) Put a few tablespoons of seasoned flour into the bag, add the chopped meat, shake bag like buggery.<\/li>\n
  62. Oil one inside and put your dough in it to rise.<\/li>\n
  63. Put your breadcrumbs in and just drop the fish (or scotch egg) in already egged and shake it about to coat it.<\/li>\n
  64. Loosely cover top of a bowl of frozen grub when you defrost it in the microwave (defrosts a bit quicker).<\/li>\n
  65. Wrap home made playdough to keep the air out.<\/li>\n
  66. For holding your damp flannels when you go for picnics (for cleaning your hands with<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Andy Hamilton, Ina, Tigerhair, Shirlz2005, Magpie, Jessica, Shiney, Glenniedragon, Hedgewitch, MillyMollyMandy, Wombat, Chickenlady, Goodlife1970, Gunners71uk, Wollcraft, Muddypause, Libby, Hedgewizard, herbwormwood, albert onglebod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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