Right before school started, I suddenly got a bee in my bonnet about plastic baggies and not wanting to use them. Of course once I looked there are a ton of people on Etsy making their own fabric baggies. I got some from Gnomeclothes because they are all cotton fabric (no vinyl – it seemed a bit counterproductive to go to the effort of ditching plastic only to use vinyl). I was also kind of skeptical – could these keep the snacks fresh? It’s been a few weeks now, and I went back and got more. I love them! They are adorable, and it sort of makes each lunch like it’s filled with little presents (though the first day Eli opened his lunch, he said, “What’s in here? Oh! It’s a SHIRT!”). And I feel much better not using plastic bags. I did have some small plastic containers that I was using, but you can fit things into the lunchboxes much better with flexible bags than with hard containers. I have some of the Gnomeclothes baggies that close with Velcro, some that fold over like the old-style plastic sandwich bags, and some sandwich wraps (which fold all around the sandwich (or whatever) and close with Velcro.