Reusable Produce Bags, Washable Mesh Bags for Fruits and Vegetables, Set of 10 - Flip and Tumble

These are a must have if you enjoy using your own bags grocery shopping. We made the switch to reusable fabric bags years ago. The produce bags switch was a little slower. I think that's a natural progression...at first it feels a little "odd" being one the only people in a grocery store stuffing things at the veggie bins in to my own cloth sacks. HOW MANY TIMES have the checkers marveled, gawked, stared, muttered or looked worried as my cloth produce bags would come down the conveyor belt.... "Did the vegetables come like that?" is the most common question. "No, I put them in there." They recover pretty quickly and proceed with weighing and so on. At this point I put on my hippy hat of pride and say "It's silly to stuff them in to a plastic bag here just to take that bag home and throw it out." You'd think this would be obvious to the world already eh? Anyways I had a smaller set of similar type bags that we used for a long time...but the truth is they were too small. We out grew them. I am pleased to say our fresh fruit/herb/veggie consumption has increased to the point that I need a produce bag that can handle ALL THE POBLANO PEPPERS (and by all at least 6 or I get antsy nom nom) I could sew my own...there's some degree of guilt I feel that I didn't...but there's also the rationale that if I don't have time or the materials at hand and these are pretty affordable, especially considering their grand size, then why not just get them and start using them. It's like any positive life step, you just need to start and what ever little step between you and starting that you can remove, the better. (This is how I justify half my purchases hahahaha) Anyways these are super awesome bags. My first most favorite part about them is they are HUGE....for a produce bag. For example I can easily put 14 average sized apples in one bag and still have room for a few more. I can put bundles of cilantro with their wild long stems in the bag and completely cover them. With my older bags I used to use they were so small that it was more like I put a hat on the cilantro bundles....just over the leaves, 8 inch stems hanging out the end...it worked but wasn't ideal. These appear very strong as well. Time will be the true test and I'll update their long term use in the future. For the moment they feel strong. Lightweight enough I am not concerned about any extra weight added to my produce bill but nice and strong I stuffed 14 apples in without a worry. I will confirm what another reviewer mentioned, the material while see-through-ish enough to see what is in there...has a tight enough weave that it obscures the barcode and the produce number that the checker usually looks for. I don't think this is a big deal because even in plastic bags the checker has to search through the cilantro stems (for example) to the twist tie with the code. Most of the time the checkers seem to have the codes memorized anyways. I do my part to help by making the check out as quick and painless as possible for them. If I put 2 bundles of cilantro in one bag as the bag reaches their hands I quickly tell them "2 cilantro bunches in there" and they punch it in. That way they don't have to play "un-wrap the veggies and see what's what" I also like the idea of using these for future travels as luggage organizers..I might try that out as they are very nice bags and I can see them being extremely useful for that. The whole flip and tumble wash produce in the bag thing doesn't work for me..I mean it might work in general but I have a system down already for washing. I have a big colander and everything that comes home gets their turn in there to be washed. Pr tip: let your peppers and apples drip dry in the dish drainer, it works! I don't store veggies in the bags, I saw some people complaining about stuff wilting etc...kind of silly...you can't expect these super airy ,esh bags to keep things magically preserved. Annnyways I love these. I may have to get more. I am adding a few photos that demonstrate how they are marvelous for apples. 14 in the bag I believe. Also a closeup that shows how the barcode is obscured, again this is NOT a big deal. But if it stresses you..there ya go. haha

I am so glad these are back on Amazon. I never got to do a review and I have bought 4 sets as long ago as 6 years. The bags are awesome! No more plastic produce bags that are impossible to open. No more sweating produce. I only find trying to scan through the bags useful about 10% of the time but I never mastered doing that through the plastic bags either. I put my produce in at the store and most things I leave in at home in the fridge or pantry. Produce lasts much longer this way. I also put rolls, buns, other breads out of their plastic bags and into these then put in a ziploc bag. This keeps the bread from getting soggy. The larger bags will hold 5-6 large onions. That is the heaviest thing I have put in them. They stretch a little which makes me not want to carry them by the top - lifting is fine. But they snap right back into shape and I have never seen any damage from using them for heavy things. My hesitation is all in my head. The biggest problem i have is remembering to bring them in the store. After 6 years, there is one weak spot. Where the cord comes out of the bag, the stitching has gotten loose on some of them (maybe the ones I have used for onions). Still they haven't unraveled. I could dig my sewing machine out or even just hand stitch the loose stitching but I haven't bothered. Usually, i just soak these a little while in hot soapy water (turned inside out) and kind of scrub them together then rinse both inside out then outside in. I have been inattentive a few times and ended up with spots of mold. In those cases, I add some bleach. Depending on how moldy I have let them get, they may have to soak for hours. Then wash and rinse as usual. Oh one more issue. I have had produce stickers get stuck to the bags. The sticky can usually be gotten off using cooking oil or however you usually clean off sticker residue. I have one bag I have never gotten the sticky off. It annoys me but the bag is still perfectly usable. This is not really the bag's fault. The price may seem high but they are so worth it not just for convenience but for how much longer food lasts in them.

High quality environmentally safe bags for produce or to hold your knitting or crocheting projects!

I have been buying and using these bags from Flip and Tumble since the first year they came out. These are everything you want in a product -- the work exactly as intended, have a reasonable life time, and are easy to care for. One year I gave them to everyone on my Christmas list. The size is perfect to hold 3 lbs of potatoes or a nice head of lettuce (celery and leeks are too long). The are sufficiently see-through that you can tell what is present at the check-out stand or in the refrigerator. They are light enough that you are not paying extra at checkout. I store most of my produce in them -- they vent, but slower than open bags so they are actually a very good compromise for moisture for everything except herbs. We have a seasonal issue with fruit flies here and we also use them on the table to store fruit at room temperature and they block fruit flies! I launder mine regularly by tossing them in the kitchen towels and using a medium heat wash and dry cycle -- they also air dry quickly. Mine get heavy use and last about a year -- with lighter use they could last for 3 years -- but they are so great you will want to use them all the time! A big thanks to F&T for their product design and quality.

I really like these reusable produce bags. I purchased the set a little while ago and have used them a few times now when I've gone grocery shopping. They're great because the material and stitching is quite sturdy and the material is just see-through enough that you can easily identify what you've purchased. I would assume that a cashier would need to remove the items from the bag if they needed to scan a barcode though. The bags are quite large – larger than I expected, which is nice. And the colour codes are helpful if you need to quickly identify items that are similar in shape and size. These are handy to have and wash very well. I would definitely recommend them :)

Para poner un granito más de apoyo a nuestro pobre planeta, a pesar de que ya usaba bolsas reutilizables para empacar el super, la verdura y la fruta seguía requiriendo bolsas de plastico que literalmente se usaban 5 minutos hasta llegar a casa y luego tirarlas. Con esto ya no uso plastíco. Son super resistentes cabe perfectamente unos 2 kilos de jitomate, cebolla, etc. Por el tejido son semitrasparentes por lo que no tienes problema en la caja. Las recomiendo ampliamente.

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