An Ingenious Way to Save Half-Eaten Fruit, Without Plastic Baggies.... Food Huggers is a line of silicone caps for keeping half-eaten fruits and veggies fresh. Photo: Food Huggers Good on you. You went to the farmer’s market, to support local growers. You loaded up on a bounty of fruits and veggies. You made a little tomato salad for yourself instead of settling for some processed snack. But now you’ve got a problem. You’ve got half of a tomato left. So you put it back in the baggie it came in, spin it tight in some vague nod towards preservation, and stick it in one of the lower compartments of the refrigerator. There it sits, its invisible, ever-ripening presence weighing on you like the Tell-Tale Heart. Every subsequent snack becomes an active decision on not to eat that tomato; to let it sit there, and go overripe, and ultimately meet its fate in the middle of your trashcan. And in that moment, all that good work you did is undone. In a sense, the Food Huggers were a product of guilt. Adrienne McNicholas and Michelle Ivankovic have been there too. But as veterans of the design-forward housewares company Umbra, they knew there had to be something better for storing nature’s snacks than all those sad plastic baggies. Out of that conviction came Food Huggers, a collection of dishwasher-, microwave-, and freezer-safe silicone caps designed to preserve half-consumed fruits and vegetables. They’re even easier to use than a sandwich bag, if that’s possible. Just take your half-whatever, press it down into the Hugger of the appropriate size, and you’re set. You can feel good about the choices you’ve made.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:49:14 +0000
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