Fashionable Food Shopping

It’s farmers’ market season and there’s no better time to buy local food. Instead of putting your groceries in naughty plastic bags, use these eco-friendly (and oh-so-stylish) gourmet totes to lug your food home. Handmade in Canada, the pretty carriers have built-in elastics so bottles stay upright, and are made of durable upholstery-grade cotton. Best of all, they hold up to three times more than the pesky, plastic alternative. To reduce packaging, the entrepreneurial twosome (women, I must add) at T Bag & Co. decided to wrap each set in a sweet-looking ribbon to forgo unnecessary packaging. Here in the office, we love all the trendy patterns (the Pretty in Pink collection was a smash hit) and even called dibs on our favourites.
- Hannah Bank, Assistant Home & Food Editor

Gourmet market totes, about $36 for set of three, T Bag & Co., tbagcompany.com.

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