What happens when you add up me being busy (ahem and a little bit lazy / overworked / time poor) and leaving food in the fridge too long in a beeswax wrap? You find out just how well they keep food preserved in the fridge. When we first launched these beautiful beeswax wraps, we were thinking about ditching cling film and single use plastic. Now, they're also about saving you money on your grocery bill by reducing the amount of fresh food waste.

Never throw out half an avocado again

One of my staff cut up this avocado on Friday 17th March and then wrapped it, loosely, in this Bee Green Wrap. It's a shepherd avocado. On the following Wednesday (22nd March), I came in to work with my cabbage to photograph in our studio (you'll see the cabbage below) and the avocado was presented to me. I nearly fell over when we unwrapped it. This is a 100% genuine photo. There is not one ounce of photo editing on it (besides me adding the text). We wrapped it back up and she has been eating bits of it all week and only at the last bit today, 11 days after it was first cut open.

In my house, I'm the only one who eats avocado, and it's rare that I eat a whole one in a sitting. Now I can wait until I eat the other half.

WANT TO TRY THIS YOURSELF? FOR FREE?

You can always take a free sample of the extra small wrap to try it at home. The extra small is big enough to do an avocado or half of a piece of fruit.

My 3 week cabbage

Again, in my house, I'm the only one who eats cabbage. I quite often have to eat the rest of a piece before I'm really ready to so I don't waste it. This time I wrapped the last piece in a beeswax wrap and then completely forgot it was in the fridge. Truth be told, it was probably in there for over 4 weeks, but I'm not 100% sure of the date, so I'd rather say it was 3 weeks to be safe.

Here is my cabbage, all wrapped up as snug as a bug in a rug.

I unwrapped it. Here's the bottom side of the cabbage. There's a small amount of little dots. Not enough to worry me or cause me any issues.

Let's flip him over. You can see there's a small amount of browning on some of the edges. I would expect this after a couple of days it was just wrapped in plastic. This was after 3 to 4 weeks.

But let's be thorough here and cut it down the middle and see if it's ok on the inside and crunchy enough to still eat raw. We got right up close with this. You can see the browning on the outside in much clearer macro focus here. The inside is perfect and it's still crunchy. All this needs is a little trim on the outside and we're good to go.

The wraps allow me to purchase fresh produce in bulk and just leave things in my fridge. I managed to find a tray of 40 figs last week for $17.95 (total bargain) and I knew I wouldn't eat that many quickly, so I popped half in my dehydrator and the rest are wrapped up in bundles in beeswax wraps. When they're 3 for $5  ($1.66 each) or 45 cents each in bulk, it's great to have a way to keep them fresh.

How much money can you save by having the more delicate of your fresh produce in wraps?

Great for lunch bags too

We have seen a video of a fish bowl being made out of one of these wraps. They're waterproof. No more soggy sandwiches! These are just great for kids lunch boxes. The range includes lunch duo sets with one wrap for a sandwich and another to make a snack pocket out of. They come in the most beautiful designs and they will keep your kids lunch soggy free and plastic free. Just wrap your food and pop them in to your kids insulated lunch bag. If there's an ice pack in there that's sweaty, the food will be protected inside the wrap. This muffin is better protected inside this wrap than in plastic. It's less likely to get squashed from a clever wrapping method or if there's a drink bottle floating around the bag too.