12 Ways To Reuse Cereal Bags

**Updated to add some new uses!**

Cereal bags. An empty one appears every couple of days in my house, just begging to be reused. Here are some ways to do that:

1. Crush graham crackers or cookies to make crumbs
   
   
2. Use to marinate meat (fold and close the end with tape; place in or on another container to catch spills)
   
   
3. Pack sandwiches for a picnic--either put a sandwich or three in one bag, or cut the bag to wrap a flat sheet around each sandwich (this is good when you need to label the sandwiches)
   
   
4. Fill with veggies to keep them crisp in the fridge
   
   
5. Shape cookie dough into rolls using a cut-apart bag
   
   
6. Tuck one in the diaper bag for stinky diaper disposal
   
   
7. Flatten chicken breasts or steak
   
   
8. Line the platter used to take burgers to the grill
   
   
9. Bag chicken bones and fat to keep the flies (and pets) out of the trash
   
   
10. Lay on the counter as a liner for packages of meat
    
    
11. Put pieces of broken glass in a cereal bag first before disposing in the garbage (prevents tears in the plastic trash bag)
    
    
12. Pour cooled and thickened fats from your meat into a cereal bag to help contain it in the trash (and remember--fats should never go down the drain--it leads to clogs and is also very hard for the water treatment plant to separate the fat from the water)
    
    

What ideas can you add to the list?


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