kinda OT - plastic food containers?
Kelly
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I have been making the switch to glassware. I use glass for my lunches and microwave in them. They all came with plastic lids but i never left the lid on plastic when I microwaved. They are pretty hardy. I have dropped a few on the floor and I have tile floors, and they bounce pretty good. I know some people at work, that just keep left over glass jars and use that for there lunch. I still have plastic for food storage. I started going for the glass, because 1. they don't stain, and 2. after a while the plastic gets all marked up and to me looks gross. It is interesting how things come full circle. When my parents were growing up, all containers were glass, then we go to plastic and now people are going back to glass.
Eileen
http://www.rubbermaid.com/Category/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx? Prod_ID=RP091260&CatName=FoodStorage
I do keep a plate and a bowl here at work in my desk because they buy styrofoam products for the lunchroom. I know...sad.
Kelly
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I have been looking into the glass storage for home. I know it's not easily breakable but as my DH likes to say, I would trip over my own shadow. He's right. Being so accident prone I have found that when it does break...it breaks.
He got me a set of the Rubbermaid produce storage containers earlier this year and I am really liking those as well.
Gee...I sound like I work for them.
I work in a physicians clinic and the concensus seems to be that it is ok to store in plastic, but NEVER heat in the microwave in plastic (not even BPA free plastic) They don't want baby bottles heated if plastic either. The heat causes the toxins to leach into the food. I bring my food in plastic and transfer to a glass plate to heat.
Hope this helps
JoAnn
corrected to say BPA free
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
