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Ree Drummond needs Lock and Lock

house_cat — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:00:55 GMT

I have never seen anyone use as many plastic bags as she does. She had to have used at least a dozen in today's show alone. I'm a little fussy about this. It's not unusual to see heavy duty Ziploc bags hanging over my kitchen faucet to dry, as I reuse them. It seems so wasteful and environmentally disrespectful to throw them away after one use.

Has anyone else noticed this about her? Maybe she and Lock and Lock need to get together and start a Pioneer Woman line of plastic containers.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:05:58 GMT

Plastic bags take up much less space in the fridge or freezer. I prefer them also. Ree does a lot of prepping and cooking and needs the space.

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Mominohio — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:06:48 GMT

I don't watch her, but it does seem like she would be called out for the waste and the environmental impact using so many disposable bags creates.

I just can't see the expense of them myself. I keep some on hand for sending something out of the house where I might not get my container back, but in reality, a small box of zip lock bags will last several years here.

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jaxs mom — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:17:35 GMT

She also uses a heck of a lot of those aluminum disposable pans instead of reusable ones. And she never uses the lids they sell for those disposable pans and instead uses foil.

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wildcat fan — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:26:25 GMT

I've also noted her excessive use of plastic baggies, and I wondered if the company was one of her sponsors. I like the idea of a project between Lock n Lock and Pioneer Woman. I wish L & L would make sets of larger storage containers. Most of the sets I've seen lately contain several small containers that I would probably never use.

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Iwantcoffee — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:35:15 GMT

@wildcat fan wrote:
I've also noted her excessive use of plastic baggies, and I wondered if the company was one of her sponsors. I like the idea of a project between Lock n Lock and Pioneer Woman. I wish L & L would make sets of larger storage containers. Most of the sets I've seen lately contain several small containers that I would probably never use.

Ree has a family of six living on a large ranch. Tiny containers are probably not the best choice for her needs.

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WSfan — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:55:35 GMT

I have watched her show for quite sometime. She appears to cook A LOT; not just for her family of 6, but also for the workers on their ranch at times. It is not uncommon for her to be making breakfast/lunch for them and then bringing an entire meal to them to be eaten out of the back of her SUV. So much easier and less apt to be breaking casseroles if it is served out of aluminum trays. Toss after use. Plus, makes more sense to marinate meat in ziplock bags instead of plastic containers. Most recipes for marinades contain oil, and that can be difficult to completely wash out of the plastic bags. One less thing that needs to be washed. After getting up at the crack of dawn at times, I am sure the last thing that she wants to do is wash unnecessary dishes. I also reuse plastic ziplock bags if I can, but see no reason to criticize Ree if she chooses not to. To each his/her own.

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lovinglife — Mon, 30 May 2016 20:58:52 GMT

I am guessing she has a sponsor relationship with the company. If large quantity vessels is what she needs, why not go to a kitchen supply store and pick up a few buffet servers. Large enough for the family and ranch hands and reusable!

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Kachina624 — Mon, 30 May 2016 21:52:06 GMT

I doubt that Ree does this but I re-cycle all my zip lock bags. Just put a little Dawn and hot water in them, shake and rinse. I use them at least 3X. I don't like having those L&L container and lids to store.

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AKgirl2 — Mon, 30 May 2016 21:59:58 GMT

Hopefully she washes/rinses and reuses...I do, especially the gallon bags...I try to be environmentally respectful and not wasteful, these bags are also expensive.

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AKgirl2 — Mon, 30 May 2016 22:06:21 GMT

the public is just hoping that she tries to recycle...granted if the bag was used for something greasy or sticky it pretty much should be thrown away...sure she's tired with her large family and all the cooking and all the plastic bags, and aluminum pans and foil wrap helps her out, unfortunately, not the environment:/

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jaxs mom — Mon, 30 May 2016 22:19:33 GMT

@WSfan wrote:
I have watched her show for quite sometime. She appears to cook A LOT; not just for her family of 6, but also for the workers on their ranch at times. It is not uncommon for her to be making breakfast/lunch for them and then bringing an entire meal to them to be eaten out of the back of her SUV. So much easier and less apt to be breaking casseroles if it is served out of aluminum trays. Toss after use. Plus, makes more sense to marinate meat in ziplock bags instead of plastic containers. Most recipes for marinades contain oil, and that can be difficult to completely wash out of the plastic bags. One less thing that needs to be washed. After getting up at the crack of dawn at times, I am sure the last thing that she wants to do is wash unnecessary dishes. I also reuse plastic ziplock bags if I can, but see no reason to criticize Ree if she chooses not to. To each his/her own.

It makes absolutely no sense to me at all, to use those throw away aluminum pans all the time. If you were actually taking food out to ranch workers twice a day can you imagine the volume of single use containers you'd go through not to mention the expense. Plus it's not like they are in an office with a trash can is right there. They are still carrying the used containers around until they get to the barn or house where there is a trash can.

I think she must just do this for the show, because having lived in a rural area with farming and ranching those folks are generally frugal and many of them do not have commerical trash pick up. So that means you're taking it all to the dump. So yes, washing containers is better than more trash you have to haul to the county dump yourself.

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house_cat — Mon, 30 May 2016 22:38:23 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I doubt that Ree does this but I re-cycle all my zip lock bags. Just put a little Dawn and hot water in them, shake and rinse. I use them at least 3X. I don't like having those L&L container and lids to store.

I love my L&L, but I do use bags from time to time and almost always recycle them. Sometimes I fill them with soap and water, zip them up and leave them in the sink overnight - rinse them in the morning.

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house_cat — Mon, 30 May 2016 22:45:19 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Plastic bags take up much less space in the fridge or freezer. I prefer them also. Ree does a lot of prepping and cooking and needs the space.

On today's show she was prepping "meal kits". (I've been doing that for years and never called them meal kits, but I guess that's the new trend. )

For one meal kit, I think she had six zipper bags with cut up veggies and stuff. There's no reason that I could see why it couldn't have been stored in reusable containers.

I like her, but I she does have a huge influence on her viewers. I think she should set a better example. Today she said that she "sometimes" or "occasionally" reuses the bags, but it didn't seem like that was a regular occurance.

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Sooner — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:04:16 GMT

I think how many baggies one uses it up to the individual and not a problem for anyone else. Certainly nothing to call someone out for. . .

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debic — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:48:40 GMT

Shows like these are scripted to a point. Who knows (or cares) what she uses when the camera is off?

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sissel — Tue, 31 May 2016 21:06:10 GMT

I re-watched the show with the meal kits & she did say she reuses the bags if "they are not too messy". I really like the glass containers with the plastic lids. I am thinking of replacing my plastic containers with the glass. I still need the plastic for transporting food out of the house but loved Ree's glass containers think they will last much longer than the plastic ones.