Save money, and your lunch, with faux-mold sandwich bags
Eating out for lunch instead of brown-bagging it can cost three times as much, so eating out for 50 work weeks a year can add up fast. If you don't believe it, add it up with a lunch cost calculator.But leaving your lunch in a refrigerator at work can sometimes lead to thievery, leaving you without a lunch and $5 or more to go buy something.
To combat sandwich thieves, designer Sherwood Forlee has come up with the Anti-Theft Lunch Bag. The clear sandwich bags have green splotches printed on both sides, simulating mold and making your fresh lunch look spoiled.
While sticky-fingered co-workers, roommates or bullies who take your kid's lunch will think twice before stealing the moldy looking sandwich, there's also the chance that they or someone else will throw the messy looking sandwich in the garbage. I guess that's the chance you take to prevent crime.
The faux-moldy bags sell for $10 for 25 bags, and they're reusable. If you don't reuse them, it equates to 40 cents a bag to keep your lunch safe -- not a bad price to keep a hungry thief away from your sandwich. With some non-toxic paint or food dye you should be able to make your own bags.
Now if Forlee could come up with a way to get people to remove their really rotten lunches from the office refrigerator and the moldy mess they create.
Have you taken someone else's food from the office refrigerator?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-17-2009 @ 8:03AM
jeff said...
I made a peanut butter and exlax sandwich. We all found out who the lunch theif was. HA HA HA! BUSTED!
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9-21-2009 @ 3:42PM
Michelle said...
Cool move Jeff. Love it!
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9-17-2009 @ 6:04PM
pickering said...
I Put white lithium grease on mine, you know to look like mayo, well we all found out who it was takin my food lol
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9-17-2009 @ 7:04PM
markabracy said...
Take the middles out of half a dozen Oreo cookies and replace it with white toothpaste...
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9-17-2009 @ 7:27PM
Charles Graham said...
I use to have my lunch stolen. So I started making caned cornbeef sandwiches and told every body it was dog food.
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9-18-2009 @ 2:16AM
The Capt sez ... said...
Ex - Lax ? ... thats for kiddie pranks. When it comes to Nailing a lunch thief, try Ipecac syrup. For those who dont know, its a vomit inducer for accidental poison victims. I made up a pan of Ipecac brownies, and put them into a common airtight container. The result was utterly predictable. Needless to say, the Clown never touched another lunch, again.
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9-19-2009 @ 12:38PM
Shirley said...
I've never deliberately stolen a lunch but I did take one accidently one time. Felt awful: I grabbed a lunch bag like mine and didn't pay any attention to what I was eating (frustrating day at work) then when I was almost through realized I wasn't eating what I had packed. Left a money and a note apologizing and yes my name. But I was humiliated. (Even now)
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9-19-2009 @ 3:09PM
Robert said...
A break room bandit would steal my lunch every single day. I started buying my lunches away from work, but not after some past due revenge. A friend had given me a bottle of hot sauce that was crazy hot. Since i'm not into burning my lips off, I used it on the last lunch I ever brought to work. I just poured the whole bottle into some leftover spaghetti, placed it in a plastic container with my name on it and put it in a paper bag. Sure enough when I returned it was gone...I only wish I could have been there to see the boob chow down on my homemade spaghetti.
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9-19-2009 @ 3:27PM
Circus Tim said...
If I saw sandwich mag that looked moldy I would toss it out and clean out the rest of the fridge. Nothing spreads mold faster. When I am not on the road I generally clean up office and fridge at least once a month. You can always tell who went off their diets by the wilted soggy vegtables
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9-19-2009 @ 9:28PM
Ann said...
Good idea, but way too much advertising and exposure. It will work for a while, then the familiar mold bag will be ignored. The best idea is the hot sauce or any horrible tasting food. The next best is something a friend told me she did. As soon as a tupperware was opened from her lunch, a little man pops up and says, "caught ya. I don't know if this is something she bought, or if she created it. Someone else told me she put live worms in a tupperware, and it ended the lunch-robbery for her.
ann
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10-19-2009 @ 8:41PM
Valerie said...
We had a lunch thief at work several years ago. After a few weeks of random co-worker's food disappearing, I made a quick stop at my local Spencer's Gifts for some of that candy that dyes your mouth blue. Then I took the second half of my Subway foot-long and crumbled the blue candy up between the slices of meat. We had one person in the office who disappeared out the back door that day and didn't come back for 3 days. She transferred to another office shortly thereafter and no lunches at our site disappeared again, until the day after she returned.
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