Plastic bags?

Question

When I go for work, I take with me my food in clear plastic bags, sometimes new shopping bags, sometimes used bag of sliced breads. My question is: Is it healthier to heat and eat directly from the bag? Is it really unhealthy? Or is it no no in a conventional world. My problem is I don't want to carry my food containers with me as sometime I go by local buses and subways. Or I should mend my ways to do something healthier. Please help.

Answer 1

If your worried, buy a cheap lunch-box, many out there for under 10 dollars.

Answer 2

Why not use baggies then instead? And get one of those lunch box things-looks like a small cooler-they make fabric ones that flatten out too. I don't think it will kill you to heat up your food in the bags, unless the bag melts, but the bag does have chemicals for one, for another they are not totally 'clean' to start with-I know because I was a cashier at Wal Mart for 6 years and many many hands touch those bags and they have ink and use dyes for the color-takes more dye to make a bag white too~but, heck microwaves give off some kind of radiation that causes cancer anyways, and I'm sure that's probably much unhealthier than using a plastic bag to heat things up in.
Ya know, when I bake fresh bread-I use oven safe bags to store it in. I get the oven safe bags from those seasoning packets I buy-like for a roast~since I cook my roasts in a crockpot instead of in those bags, it works out well & I can then stick the whole loaf of fresh bread right into the oven to heat it up if I want.

Answer 3

In my opinion it best to take the food out of the plastic bag, if it's solid put it on paper towel and heat it in the Microwave. If it's a sandwich wrap it in paper inside the plastic bag for transport. I do it all the time!

Answer 4

good question