I have gathered a mountain of take away containers from food delivery services, I wash and reuse them for my work lunches, anyone else have crafty uses for them?
Reusing Take Away Containers, Yes or No?
Careful With Money on 19/08/2022 - 22:02
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Free containers for sorting and storing Lego. For people with a lot, they are too big and organizers are better suited.
For food storage, always. You'd be mad not to.
some people use them as disposable resin molds
I keep a bunch in the shed for when I'm pulling things apart. Place nuts, bolts whatever and write on the lid with a permanent marker.
I like this idea!
Take them to all you can eat buffets.
I try to go once a week to make up 7 lunches and 7 dinners.
I like this idea. What kind of food do you get from the buffets? And does anyone give you any trouble or try and stop you over it?
Ngl that seems like you're taking the piss doing that and surely not allowed
If its busy enough I reckon you could get away with it depending on how you execute it.
I wouldn't bring the takeaway containers directly up to the food but keep them on the table, go heap some food on your plate, enough for two meals maybe, have a brother with you keeping watch of the containers, come back and distribute the food into the container, rinse and repeat every five minutes or so until you're happy with your lunch haul for the week.
And of course have some actual dinner there while you're at it.
Yeah so theft really
@coffeeinmyveins: It's an all you can eat buffet, how would that be any different to someone eating 10 plates worth while they're there?
@mskeggs: And you're just eating it at a later date then.
Besides, it's not like they stipulate that all food MUST be consumed on premises and not taken away.
@ParmiAndChips: It's not "all you can takeaway". The deal is that you eat it, not store it to takeaway. If you don't get that, I'm not sure what else to say.
The deal is that you eat it, not store it to takeaway
Yeah on paper! You gotta think outside the box
@ParmiAndChips: In my experience this does not work in the desserts section. The soft serve is all runny by time I get it to work 4 days later.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
just tip the plate into your lady's handbag
Prob not to all-you-can-eat places …
But certainly worth taking a spare container when going to a restaurant for dinner.The size of some meals these days are monstrous - "US super-sized" ++ many restaurants are still abiding by some council/health regulations of not allowing diners to take leftovers home.
… And trying to stuff a 1/2 eaten steak wrapped in serviettes into my GF's bag is annoying the hell out of my GF.
Yes or No?
Yes, until it starts to deform or falls apart.
For storage of unused instant noodles soup powder packs, using a marker to indicate the type of flavour for easy recall.
Then what do you do with the instant noodles soup powder packs?
Soup base when I have no stock.
Put them on plain noodles bought in bulk?
Use on non instant noodles soups.
e.g.
Fresh and dry rice noodles.
Egg noodles.Soups
e.g.
Veg Soups (e.g. carrots, potato, etc…)
I use them to cook my pasta.
not for microwave! it may have bpa, might not be good for children though
Of course can…
If possible i will resell them on ebay
Excellent find. 5/7
Yes but only ones that aren't too oily, which are hard to find.
When put opened tins of cat food in the round containers so the fridge doesn’t smell. They are also good for standing things like honey where you might have sticky residue.
With out InstantPot when we wash the lid we take all the bits off and put them in a container to dry so we don’t lose anything.
Also good for putting things in when you have picnics or barbecues.
We have a big yoghurt container we peel the veggies into to take out to the worm farm. With the lid it makes sure flies don’t get in.
If it's oily AF then I just use it to throw away my wet rubbish (bones, fruit etc) as I throw my dry rubbish in an open cardboard box and I hate going to the outside bins. If it's not oily I'll use it for food storage, but I tend not to reheat those takeaway containers in the microwave anyway
I reuse them for a bit too, for foodstuff. But I don't heat them. Consider the microplastics and the bpa that leech out over time and are damaging to our health. In saying that, I hate just throwing containers away, so still use them more than I should. Need another use, other than food.
Give them to your Nonna so she doesn’t have to give you a Tupperware container when she is sending the extra food home with you.
Storage for anything. Crafts, tech stuff, kids toys, anything small enough really