Ziploc Zip 'n Steam Food Storage Bags for Meal Prep, Healthy Meals in Minutes, Microwave Safe, 10 Count

The last year I've been trying to eat locally grown produce from the local farmers market or my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) weekly box of fruits and veggies delivered to my house. I'm also on a weightloss diet and need to eat 4 cups of veggies daily. Lets be honest... there's only sooo many raw veggies you can eat.... and cooking veggies is time consuming and as a single mom/college student/full time employee... well I struggle with that.I used to buy the frozen steamer bags of veggies from the supermarket, they are expensive, and I want to eat local veggies... not veggies bulk farmed somewhere else. Local veggies taste better (they really do!).My other consideration is I am a single mom of an awesome kid with Asperger's Syndrome. The veggies he eats is very limited, and cooking to suit his needs greatly constrains my variety in foods. It was very wasteful time wise to cook up a bunch of veggies that I will only eat, and then cook his foods as well. With these steam bags, my dinner is simple, fast, easy, and yummy!I LOVE these Ziploc Zip'N Steam Cooking bags. When I get my veggie delivery each week, I precut and package the veggies in the bags. Then each day I grab one and take it with me to work. Then at night, I steam one or two to go with my dinner.A few weeks ago, I chopped up a butternut squash. It was way too much for me to eat in a week, so I prepackaged the squash in the bags, and put the excess ones in the freezer. I had one of the frozen bags last night with my dinner. I added a small amount of butter and pumpkin pie seasonings to the bag before I steamed. It came out like a dessert. Very good, and the freezer didn't seem to bother the squash at all. If I was going to freeze for longer than a couple of weeks, I would probably use freezer bags.Now as far as what I've steamed goes... I've had GREAT success with cabbage, kale, chard, spinach, and other greens. I've steamed whole and sliced beets. I've made veggie mixes with garlic/rosemary/fennel mixed in. The veggies absorb the herbs/spices well and taste great. I've slipped in frozen shrimp or grilled chicken tenders with the veggies to make a sort of stir fry.I love these bags! The are a great way to easily get your veggies or healthy meals in.

These will change your life. I now throw frozen vegetables into these to add veggies to every meal. If you toss the veggies with some seasoning (I recommend Chef Paul Prudhomme's No-Salt-Added Toasted Onion & Garlic plus some cracked black pepper) and steam them in a bag, you can just pour them out on a plate and eat. But this is also an amazing way to prep veggies for being tossed into stir fries and more, because it gets them cooked up fast and with no mess at all. They can be used to cook and reheat meat, make steamer omelets, and quickly cook up any frozen food that has steaming directions. Trust me, using these cuts all cooking estimates in half or more. It's incredible!When I travel, I actually take these with me. Even in a hotel room, I can make some quick, healthy veggies. And when I've lived abroad in Portugal and China for work, I brought these, too. It's so much easier to eat healthy with these!TIPS:Ignore the instructions. I overfill the max fill line daily, and just cook it for longer. And I never, ever add water to frozen or fresh vegetables (meat, yes). There's plenty of water in veggies to steam, and you won't have to strain out the excess. Also, always be careful when removing or opening the bag, because it did just steam—it's hot and has hot hair inside waiting to come out (think microwaved popcorn). You can also reuse bags for similar things, which I did quite a bit while rationing them in Portugal. Plus, if you end up with leftovers, just leave it in the bag. Vegetables in particular keep for a few days or even a week right in one of these steamer bags. I often do that for "salad corn" (Portugal taught me that cold, steamed corn is a great salad base - they use equal parts lettuce, cucumber, and corn as a salad base instead of just lettuce, yum); I steam the corn and then just toss it in the fridge without even opening the bag. A few hours later, voila, salad corn! :)

I know this review sounds a bit unbelievable but if you read my reasoning for the glowing review, hopefully it will lend credence. I am a person who always does leftovers. I take my lunch to work to reheat and eat every day. I have a fairly restricted diet thanks to a roll of the 'genetic dice' and I have to eat what I can eat and that includes a fair amount of beef, chicken, and fish. Reheating leftover hamburgers, steaks, and chicken in the microwave usually resulted in doorstops even though I would basically reheat them in water. That was true until I started using these bags. I have found that reheating beef and chicken with a teaspoon or so of water has so far yielded very moist proteins that were still heated up completely. I have even cooked chicken in there raw with the seasonings I can tolerate and it was excellent. I can eat vegetables if, after heating, I transfer them to my uber powerful blender with some broth and create a soup out of them so I also use them to steam vegetables but I have found so many other things benefit from this method that I just cannot recommend them highly enough. I can see where reheating rice and pasta would probably also work well in these bags. Also, they have some great recipes at their website that show a variety of things that can be prepared in these bags and also provide enough clues to come up with your own recipes. As long as they maintain their quality, I will never stop buying these. In fact, I like them so much that I took the time to write this review and I don't write very many anymore since the interwebs anonymity doesn't always bring out the best in everyone. Sorry, I digress there. If anyone has heated up any other type of leftovers and had success or done some recipes in these, I would like to read about them if you wouldn't mind sharing.

Really like these steaming bags but they are expensive for what you get. Use them all the time for a no mess cooking experience and everything gets cooked evenly.

I feel your price for on a package of ten is to high. I will not order these again.