Wrap-And-Mat Food Pouch and Eating Mat

by Harold Import Company

Product Features

• Sandwich wrap; works also as a food mat
• Save paper and mess; reusable so it's earth friendly
• Avoid food contamination; unwrap your sandwich and have a safe and easy surface to eat off of
• Measures 13-inch by 13-inch

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 9 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001C4POJU
• Item model number: 70018
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,049 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Wrap And Mat serves as both a food wrapper and a clean surface for eating school lunches, pic-nics, or office lunches. Meant to replace landfill-clogging plastic baggies, the Wrap And Mat is reusable. A Velcro closure keeps contents securely pouched. When opened, the Mat measures 13 by 13 inches, so there's plenty of room to lay out an entree and sides, keeping everything together on a clean surface. Patented with a plastic liner inside, the Wrap cleans up completely without any fabric weave or pores that can harvest bacteria. Wash the Wrap And Mat easily and quickly at home in the sink with the dishes and let it air dry.

Product Description

Over 20 million plastic bags are discarded every day. Tired of using costly and environmentally unfriendly sandwich bags and paper towels.Try the Wrap n’ Mat. Oftentimes we don’t have a clean surface to eat on while away from home; whether at work or play, plates and napkins are not available or a terrible hassle to clean before and after our quick and furious lunch breaks. With the Wrap n’ Mat you’ll always have a clean surface to eat on, plus it also serves as a sandwich wrap. Wrap your favorite sandwich and, no matter where you go, you’ll have a safe and easy surface to eat off of. It’s large so unfold and dump out your veggies and chips next to your sandwich. After, fold up and take home and wash. Then do it again the next day. No more waste and no more mess.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A better and more expensive alternative to plastic wrap..., May 3, 2010

By 

T. Wright (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrap-And-Mat Food Pouch and Eating Mat (Kitchen)

I like these Wrap-N-Mats, but I find them a bit bothersome to wash and so they don't get used quite as frequently as I'd like. They do beat disposable plastic wrap. I purchased both these and some of the Kids Konserve Food Kozy sandwich wraps from Amazon. Both products have their good and bad points. I want to say that I like the Wrap-N-Mats more, but honestly, these Food Kozies get used more than the Wrap-N-Mats do because 1) I'm not as worried about how I wash them and 2) I can label them. Would I recommend either type to someone else? Yes, if I also told the would-be buyer the pros and cons that I have found them to have. In that spirit, here's my comparison of the two items:

Food Kozies

*Round

*Single sheet of PE plastic

*Not a big choice of designs; personally not too excited by their choice of pattern

*So exactly what justification is there for their price other than the fact that not a lot of companies make things like this....?

*An unexpected perk that I love - I can write on these with dry-erase markers so I don't have to open up package after package in the fridge to find out what's inside; marker wipes off pretty easily even after a week or two

*They are just one sheet of plastic so I did get one that was cut slightly (apparently when they attached the velcro); I pulled on the torn edges gently but it didn't seem like the tear was about to go any farther so I just ignored it and it hasn't gotten any worse

*A big positive point for these is that they are all just plastic - I can throw them in the sink and not worry about how long it might be until I do a load of dishes by hand, no worry about discoloration of fabric or mold on the fabric (of course I would never leave anything in the sink long enough to get moldy..... ahem...)

Wrap-N-Mats

*Octagonal

*LDPE plastic liner sewn onto fabric covering

Liner is only sewn around the edges, so it's not quite as neat as I'd like to see it, but there's really no problem here except for a slight aesthetic one; on the other hand, it probably helps keep things more sterile since there isn't any thread to clean on the food side of the wrap

*Really cute designs; my four-year-old actually gets excited about taking them to preschool to show his friends

*Not cheap, but at least there's an indication that some work was done to make this product; seems to justify the price a little more than Food Kozy's sheet-of-plastic-plus-Velcro approach

*They seem pretty sturdy; as the company says there are lines in the plastic, but they are just from the manufacturing and they don't actually hurt the product at all

*The real downfall - I only wash the liner of these and I don't put them in the sink since I don't want the fabric getting food or liquid on it; in other words, they tend not to get washed because they sit beside the sink with all of my "need to be handwashed but are too fragile or special to go into the sink so I only end up washing one or two of these each time I do a load of hand-washed dishes" items

*One note about the Wrap-N-Mats; they have different materials for the liners depending on whether they are made in the US or in China. The ones I got on Amazon mentioned something like "the ones made in the US are made from...." but didn't actually specify whether the item I was looking at was made in the US or not. It turns out that they were, but based on the description I wasn't 100% sure which I would get until I received them.

Both

*LDPE/PE ("sandwich bag plastic")

*Phthalate-free, BPA-free

(presumable both lead free although Kids Konserve doesn't specify)

*Velcro-style closure

*Fairly sturdy; I expect them to stand up to quite a bit of use

*They do keep food surprisingly fresh for much longer than I'd expect from something like this

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I wish I liked this more, May 11, 2009

By 

Philosopher Mom (SF Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wrap-And-Mat Food Pouch and Eating Mat (Kitchen)

This was a product I really wanted to like. It's a wonderful idea but didn't work out quite so well in real life. The wrap mat does keep the sandwich fresh but doesn't protect it from the other items floating in my son's lunchbox, such as milk or apples.

It needs to be hand-washed with warm, soapy water and left to air dry - which means you can't wash it at the last minute. In a pinch, just wipe down the plastic liner. I did try machine washing and drying, with unsuccessful results. (For those of you who want to know what happened, the plastic shrinks and warps.)

If I were to redesign this product, I would try a laminated fabric used for high-quality cloth-diaper covers. This would make the product machine washable and more durable overall.

Meanwhile, I've gone back to the plastic sandwich box, and it's working out just fine. BTW, no one should be using plastic bags for sandwiches anymore...

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ingenious!, August 6, 2008

By 

Neddie Ludd "Neddie Ludd" (Central Florida, USA, Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wrap-And-Mat Food Pouch and Eating Mat (Kitchen)

The outside is fabric, the inside is PEVA plastic. No lead, only vegetable dyes in the fabric, fair labor/fair wage product. I handwash & drip dry in the dish rack.