Resealable Gallon Size Zip Food Storage Bags | Compostable

Resealable Gallon Size Zip Food Storage Bags | Reusable

Compostable Food Storage Bag | Gallon Size Bags | BPI® Certified Compostable

These washable, reusable, refillable, and freezer-safe Large Gallon sized Ziplock Food Storage Bags are perfect for keeping your food fresh. Whatever your reason for being on the go, you will love these!  These eco-friendly bags, made from compostable materials, can be used in the refrigerator or freezer for meat, fruit, vegetables, etc. And even better yet, you can keep disposable waste out of our landfills when they are properly composted! They are made from a propriety blend of plant-based and synthetic materials that are certified compostable by the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI®) to compost within 180 days in a commercial composting facility, where accepted.

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• 32 Bags per individual box | 24 boxes per 1 case Zipper Seal
• Resealable
• Freezer-Safe
• Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI®) Certified Compostable
• Not intended for backyard compost
• Not for Storing Hot Foods. Allow Food to Cool before Using

What makes these zip bags eco-friendly? 

Our resealable gallon-size zip bags are made from compostable materials, setting them apart from traditional plastic zip bags. These eco-friendly zip bags break down naturally in industrial composting facilities, offering an environmentally conscious alternative for food storage.

What size are these resealable zip bags? 

These are gallon-size zip bags, typically measuring about 10.5 x 11 inches. This generous size makes our zip bags perfect for storing larger quantities of food, marinating meats, or organizing bulk items in your kitchen or pantry.

Can these compostable zip bags be reused? 

Yes, our compostable zip bags are designed for multiple uses. The durable zip closure allows you to open and close these bags several times, making them ideal zip bags for storing leftovers, packing lunches, or keeping ingredients fresh. However, as they are compostable, they may not last as long as traditional plastic zip bags with repeated use.

Are these safe for storing food? 

Absolutely! Our compostable gallon-size zip bags are food-safe and free from harmful chemicals. These versatile zip bags are perfect for storing a wide variety of foods, from fresh produce to dry goods. You can even use these zip bags for marinating meats or storing prepared meals safely.

Products are packaged in recyclable paperboard and polyolefin plastic wrap. Please recycle all packaging where available. Recycling facilities may not be available in all areas.

Ziplocks/freezer bags are the defacto choice for backpackers.

But they’re disposable – at most I get a few trips from them before holes start to appear. I’ve also had enough accidents with food leaking through my bag. I’ve tried plenty of options, as others have said I’ve just been using the wrong kind. I dunno, maybe I just pack things a bit rough? But I can’t see getting too long out of any frequently used ziplock/freezer bag.

I’m not here to debate the issues of single use items, but to look for a more long-term replacement to one. I’m not rehydrating food in them, just storing it until i cook in my pot (sometimes I bring a cold soak jar).

So, what lightweight options do we have as alternatives to ziplocks/freezer bags for food? A friend has an ortileb map case that has lasted many many years, so that seems to be one option..

Yeah, ziplocks are a pain. I used to repackage stuff into daily meals. I had my breakfast stuff in one baggie, oatmeal, coffee, and cocoa packets in little baggies. So, that meant 4 baggies for every breakfast. Supper was repackaged into the main meal, any dehydrated meats and more cocoa…again packed in a larger “daily” bag. Soo, I was looking at about 7 baggies per day of various sizes. Too many after one two week trip…

Since I have been packaging everything bulk. Rice, cocoa, macaroni, dried beef, jerky, pemican, cocoa, oatmeal, coffee all take up about 1 larger baggie each…for two weeks. And I get extra heavy duty freezer bags. Most of the bags make at least two trips, some make three or four. A huge savings in the number and overall plastic use. Rather than throwing them away, I put them into a gallon milk jug for recycling. Even if in only ends up being burned, two uses is far better than so much garbage.

If you think about it, they’re really just another form of Tupperware. We wouldn’t chuck one of those.

I use freezer Ziplocks. I find them to be quite durable.  I use a quart size for my wallet and car keys  and tuck it into my wetsuit for kayaking. They seem to hold up no problem. I do think it would be better if I wrapped my keys in something to keep them from poking holes.

Another thing I’ve done with Freezer strength Ziplocks: Sous Vide cooling. Nathan Mervold, Microsoft zillionaire, author of a $350 cookbook and Sous Vide cooking expert says they’re okay to cook in. (If you know better let me know.) I tossed in green onions, eggs, and mixed it up, then put it (open) in my Jetboil pot with boiling water. Cooked an omelet just fine and used the same bag the next day. I found it impossible to clean the bag on the trail, but it did work, no plastic taste. Had I been hungry enough I might’ve licked the baggie clean which would’ve made it easier to wash.

I think the key is to not use Ziplocks as disposable, like for gear that would be just fine in stuff sacks and dry bags. Used for food, rinse/wash them out and take them home, use them again. They might be okay in a dishwater if you can clip them to the rack.

Since I don’t hike to eat, but eat to hike, the lightest and simplest food packaging is the goal. So breakfast is a mix of instant breakfast or a similar product, mixed with best quality instant coffee. Lunch is a smaller size energy bar – used to use Tiger’s Milk. Dinner is pasta mixed with freeze dried turkey or chicken, plus seasonings made from various ingredients sold at supermarkets. For some flavors, like Asian, the seasonings are sifted out of packaged meals, and used separately.

The energy bars stay banded together in their wrappers; but the other foods are divided up at home into portions that each require a large cup of water from a Ti cup. The breakfasts work better dissolved in cold water, then heated to coffee temp. For dinner, the longest cooking items, like pasta and freeze dried meat, go into a Ti bowl, hot water is added from the spouted Ti pot that is used only for boiling water, and the bowl is simmered on the canister stove with stirring until the contents are soft. The seasonings are then added, and simmered briefly until ready to eat. How good it tastes depends on how well the seasoning is selected and measured. The bowl and a fork and spoon are the only items that need to be washed.

The BF and DIN meats and pasta are stored separately in heat sealable plastic bags from ULINE, and a ULINE sealer that looks like a very large stapler seals each bag tightly around the contents, and cuts off the excess plastic; so the sealed bags are roughly in the shape of small cylinders, and are easy to pack in a light WP nylon bag that is sized to just hold a week’s worth of food (caches are a week apart). That bag goes into an Ursack that is kept separate from the other gear, usually shockcorded to a shelf on top of the pack. The seasonings are packed in much smaller plastic bags from ULINE that are sealed and placed inside the larger heat sealed bags. Tea bags are carried in a small covered container that fits into the Ti cup that in turn, fits into the bowl. A gas canister and some PIC coils fit well into the spouted Ti boiling pot.

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The trash from all this is plastic bag remnants stuffed into, you guessed it, a ziploc bag stuffed into the bottom of the WP nylon food storage bag. It’s all hung high in the Ursack overnight (along with the dog packs that also contain separately packaged food). This is for the southern Rockies and northern New England. For caches, and populous bear country, an Opsac is added with double closure clips and a heavier Ursack is used. I’ve hiked and kayaked over much of Maine, the most bearish of my haunts, and never had a bear go after the hanging ursacks, although they’ve visited my campsites a few times.

All of this seems to have provided the lightest and most compact system for a week, and works fine for shorter trips, with the Ursack cinched and rolled around itself as it would be in the middle of a week long trip. More recently there have been dietary restrictions, but have found that the supermarkets still come through with gluten-free rice pasta, like the small elbow macaroni that packs tightly. Still looking for a dairy free instant breakfast, though.

Hey Jono, might not be what you asked, but do you not wash them and re-use the ziplocks?

I use muesli and milk powder and add water in the am straight into the zipL and eat from it with my spork. Also use them for my almond and date scroggin.

Wash at home-really just slosh around in the sink lightly with the dishes. Put them upside down on something, (wine bottle) they dry so quick. Never had issues with hygiene.

If you have 20 or so on the go they seem to last for ages. One damaged in the last couple of months.

My last pack was bought at the 4square in Akaroa 18 months ago-I’m pretty sure I still have them all!

On another note as a kiwi you may remember wax lunch wrap? There is a biodegradable version now.

I wrapped a 500 gm fruit cake cut into slices in it and and went off for four days good as gold.

Also my current favourite is Lebanese (square) bread bags. They never die. They are also my food bag/s one inside the other weigh about 3-4 grams.

Light rinse- ready for action.

They are so tough-my sock cover at the end of the day with wet runners! Never holed.

Perhaps being selective is the key. I went through the same thing and this was the best I could come up with. Now just rinse all the plastic wrapping (tuna sachets, snickers etc) and put in the recycling. Let us know how you get on. Would love to have less waste! Cheers.

This is an interesting thread! Lots of different techniques.

The system I’ve come around to involves supermarket produce bags and nylofume bags and an ursack. I get out the scale and work my way through the 3 main meals. Measure out instant oatmeal with dried fruit for breakfast in X # of produce bags, overhead knot loosely tied, excess clipped off. then stored along with breakfast bars ( 2 per day) and X via tubes. This all goes into the breakfast nylofume bag, Lunch is X bags of mixed nuts also in produce bags and some trail bars; in the “lunch” nylofume bag, and ditto dinners which are re-packaged freeze dried meals in the produce bags, maybe a desert also produce bagged, maybe some Parmesan cheese  and some chocolate; again in the ‘dinner’ nylofume. These 3 nylofumes go into a mothership nylofume which goes into the ursack. The empty produce bags end up in the bottom of their respective nylofume bags. I also have a small nylofume which I’ll sometimes pack the next days meals at dinner and I can keep that in a handier location in the pack during the next day’s hike..

I try to be very careful about food odors (duh) and besides the nylofume bags are very light, a fraction of an opsack. I also obviously like redundancy. The produce bags are also very light. Again a fraction of a ziplock. I can just rip open the produce bag over simmering water and dump it in.. I’m doing @ 1lb 6 oz. of food per day.

I also use a cozy and often let the food sit and hydrate for 10- 15 minutes while I do something else; sometimes re-heating just a touch before eating. I use a jetboil so have to be careful not to dry out/burn the meal. I’m getting about 5 days on a small can of fuel.

Why does Via get a bad rap anyway? I guess I’m not a certified coffee connoisseur but we do grind our fresh beans and use a one cup drip brew at home so it’s not like we’re buying a cuppa joe at 7-11 and the Italian roast via tastes mighty good to me somewhere way back in the woods.

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