These are things that I likely wouldn’t have purchased, but one day my grocery was giving a box away with every $12 you spent in fresh produce. I didn’t know this until I checked out, but my grocery trips involves going to mostly only two parts of the store: dairy and eggs and then the produce section at the other end. I had enough to get two boxes. I’ve tried them, and I’m amazed at how long my grapes have lasted in them, as well as my fresh herbs. The key is to make sure your produce is dry, since I guess the zeolite will also absorb water over the gas, and then gas just builds up in the small space of the bag and makes it rot faster. I throw one paper towel in with the produce to help in the water absorption.

The rest of the bag? It could be made with a barrel of oil, an entire tree and a baby seal for all I know. I am happy with them though. If I can wash them and reuse them a few times–what I’m reading is that it works though about 10 washings–they are worth it for me. I’m about to put the celery I bought today in one. This is the produce I end up tossing the most because I don’t use nearly as much as you have to buy in a bunch before it is bad. Here’s hoping!

My searching ended when I found these OXO storage containers. They are plastic, but more solid than the really cheap ones. They were less expensive than my stainless steel ones. What really sold me was the pop-top lid. Press the button into the locked position, and the seal is really tight. You can pick the container up by the lid. Pop the button to the unlocked position and the lid comes off with ease. No pulling or prying to get the seal lose like my stainless steel ones. I ended up picking up a ton of them. I put almost all of my baking items in them. They stack well, and tetris nicely into my pull-out shelf in my pantry. I picked up a few new ones a couple of weekends ago. One so I can add yet another flour to my line-up. And another because the seal isn’t working on my stainless steel container for my sugar. With the humidity here, I need that seal so it doesn’t turn into one gigantic lump of sugar. I may pick up another big one to replace the AP flour stainless steel container. The seal on that one still works, but I can’t stack it and I have to really pull to get the lid off.

Plus, I love these so much that they are bound to stop making them. I must collect a few back-ups just in case.

I started another No-Knead bread tonight. I’ll bake it tomorrow early afternoon. I’ll see if slight adjustment in the water helps, and I’m going to try to slip parchment paper into the mix to see if it will ease the burning on the bottom of the bread.