I buy pretty plates from thrift stores for .25 - .50 and tell whomever I am taking treats to please not return it, but pass it along. Several years ago, I purchased two dozen white sacking towels, and using Ikea bag clips, I mark the one for my hands with a purple clips, and one to dry fruits and veg with a green clip. I also bought two dozen plain, white cotton napkins and change them out each week or after a messy dinner like pasta with red sauce
and such. I turn plates over open bowls in the fridge, use a clean and damp kitchen cloth over rising bread, and even go so far as tossing too many ice cubes shooting from the fridge when I only want three, in to a funnel used with the gallon bottle I collect misc. water for my indoor plants. Outside, I have two rain barrels. The only paper product I purchase regularly is toilet paper. About a year ago, Home Goods sold stretchable lids for bowls package with every size one could want. They also sold an assortment in squares and rectangles. Although they are handwash only, they are outstanding as bowl and rectangular glass storage bowl tight fitting lids.
What I haven’t been able to successfully use are bees wax wrappers. I’ve tried nuking them for a few seconds to get them to mold around the bowl or product I’m trying to protect, but I have never had any luck. They are stiff, unmalable and me-unfriendly.

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