Using Walmart bags for lunch "box"...sanitary?

[stevenpensacola]

We've all done it...used a walmart bag we've brought home from the store to carry our lunch in...but, have you ever wondered when getting your lunch out of the bag...

what did I carry home in this bag?
what could the stuff I carried home in the bag have come in contact with?
are the bags "new" or "fresh"?...Plastic sanitized during the manufacturing process?

Should I be carrying my lunch in a walmart bag?

hmmmm?

 

[Christine]

I've not thought about it too much. I do worry if maybe that package of raw hamburger was in that particular plastic bag. However, all my lunch items are in sealed containers or wrapped so it's no big deal to me.

 

[DisneyCher]

I use a small paper bag with handles I got from a Pendleton store. And I don't bring raw meats/fish into work, and most things are all sealed up in baggies or containers, so I think I am OK.

 

[ElizK]

I throw away the grocery bags that carried meat or wet items (like gallons of milk with condensation on them), so all the bags that I keep should be fine for reusing.

 

[Imzadi]

I throw away the grocery bags that carried meat or wet items (like gallons of milk with condensation on them), so all the bags that I keep should be fine for reusing.

Me too. This way there is no mix up or cross contamination. The bags are disposed of immediately.

 

[cluvsdisney]

I throw away the grocery bags that carried meat or wet items (like gallons of milk with condensation on them), so all the bags that I keep should be fine for reusing.

Same here plus any food I carry to work with me is wrapped appropriately so it's not touching the bag anyway.

 

[tlbwriter]

I use Walmart/Target bags to carry my lunch all the time, but my food is wrapped or in a plastic container so it doesn't touch the bag. If the bag is unsafe to carry my lunch, it's also unsafe to carry my groceries home.

 

[okeydokey]

I use an insulated bag to carry my lunch and we recycle the Walmart bags.

 

[Missy1961]

I throw away the grocery bags that carried meat or wet items (like gallons of milk with condensation on them), so all the bags that I keep should be fine for reusing.

Me too.

 

[scrapquitler]

We've all done it...used a walmart bag we've brought home from the store to carry our lunch in...but, have you ever wondered when getting your lunch out of the bag...

what did I carry home in this bag?
what could the stuff I carried home in the bag have come in contact with?
are the bags "new" or "fresh"?...Plastic sanitized during the manufacturing process?

Should I be carrying my lunch in a walmart bag?

hmmmm?

Well I'm not throwing a loose sandwich in the bag, the sandwich is wrapped up, the cookies are in a ziplock bag, the bottled water is in a bottle. The food isn't touching the bag.

Do you just toss your carrot sticks in the bag without a wrapper? If so, then yeah, maybe there's a concern. But if not, I don't see an issue.

 

[2binak]

Even though I have an insulated bag that I use as a lunch bag, we immediately put any plastic bags that had meat or detergents in them in the recycle bin.

 

[Carly_Roach]

We've all done it...used a walmart bag we've brought home from the store to carry our lunch in...but, have you ever wondered when getting your lunch out of the bag...

what did I carry home in this bag?
what could the stuff I carried home in the bag have come in contact with?
are the bags "new" or "fresh"?...Plastic sanitized during the manufacturing process?

Should I be carrying my lunch in a walmart bag?

hmmmm?

I've never given it any thought. My sandwiches are typically in their own protective plastic bag as is everything else except silverware. But I never really worry about germs all that much, myself.

If I had a plastic bag that had something in it that left a residue, I would have thrown that bag out right away rather than store it.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I wouldn't think twice about re-using them the way you describe, because if they were icky they wouldn't have made it into my stash in the first place. My main way to reuse those shopping bags is in our small wastepaper baskets throughout the house

 

[tvguy]

Our Walmart doesn't have bags, it's one of 2 that are experimenting with having customers bring their own. Well, you can BUY blue reusable washable bags for 15 cents each.
I hadn't thought about putting a lunch in a Walmart bag, we have vinyl lunch totes for that. I HAVE thought about what nasty things are on the bags people are bringing into Walmart and setting on the conveyor belt though.....wonder when the health department is going to check on that!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I toss out ick bags---so anything carrying raw meat or exposed stuff.

We usually use bags for litter removal. Benign bags are used for carrying items.

Lunches go in "lunch boxes" or coolers. Very rarely in the shopping bags.