Sometimes mothers are the mother of invention. Three of them, appalled by their families' plastic sandwich bag use (and the country's—estimated at more than 20 million a day), created LunchSkins, cheerful, reusable, dishwasher-safe sandwich and snack sacks.
From bakeries to mushroom foragers, most small-scale food purveyors now have e-tail Web sites. If you're felled by a craving, chances are one of them can fill it.