5 Tips to Reduce Waste and Make Your Produce Last Longer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- Do you find yourself throwing away your produce too often? Feel like you may as well throw your money away and save yourself a trip to the supermarket?
We’ve got you covered with 5 tips that can help you to reduce your waste and keep your produce fresh longer!
What do you do to make your produce last longer? Let me know in the comments below!
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I wrap my cucumbers in paper towels before I put them in the refrigerator. It absorbs moisture and they don't rot or go mushy as fast.
Slice the avocado first and freeze the slices so they dont stick together. You can take out as many slices as you need then. They stay nice and green :)
Good Tip...maybe add wax paper between for no stick
GAME CHANGER for me to store fruit...Berries last for weeks if you just take them out of the plastic and store them in a glass jar. Who would think. Do not wash first.
To keep from throwing out fresh basil, I will rough chop my basil and put it in olive oil and store it in the freezer until I’m ready to use it.
I wrap foil around celery. It lasts a long time! And I put unwashed strawberries in a glass mason jar. They will keep twice as long!
Do you put a lid on the mason jar full of unwashed strawberries? Can you also do this with blueberries and raspberries?
I would love to know the answers to these questions as well.
Hi, I have been using mason jars for my strawberries, blueberris, and grapes for over a year. They will last a very long time. I wash my fruit, lay them on a towel, let them air dry, put them in the jar, and yes, put the lid on the jar, great success, and I hope this helps, have a great day!
Yes, I wrap my celery in foil too. Really works and when it gets a little soft I use it in something like soup.
Aluminum foil is toxic to your brain! (Nuerotoxin)
I’ve used the paper towel trick for a couple of years now. Works great
We cut up overripe bananas & freeze them for smoothies. Never knew we could do that with ripe avocados! Thanks!!
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Thanks, I usually pitch them, because I know I won't use them for Banana Bread.
I just need to come live with y’all for a few months so I can get myself eating right! Lol
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Hi guys love your site When I buy lettuce I wash it and soak it in vinegar water then let it dry out on a rack for awhile then take the loose leaves and spread them out and roll in a cotton dish towel and shake to get more water out. Last I put paper towels at the bottom of a bag put the lettuce inside and put a couple of paper towels on top. Fold the bag loosely let some of the air out and store in frig. Last better than a week. For Veggies I do what you do but when I put then into a container or bag I put paper towels on the bottom and the top and put it frig, I turn the bag/container over everyday to let the moisture absorb in the towels, and change my towels when they are damp. I save these towels and use again for same process for my next veggies. Vinegar is great and soaking blueberries/strawberries keeps them from molding so fast.
Love this! -LGD Team
Thank you! I learned something new today! I have a large garden (my hubby does most of the work getting it planted).
Now I can preserve for the week and keep things fresh, although we also have chickens so nothing goes to waste! 😊
I will try these tips. I throw away so much of what I buy, I have gone to take out fast foods😢
Florida Avocados are 1½ times the size of a soft ball and they have about 5 times the amount of avocado mater, very good and they are green with a smoother finish not blackish with a bumpy surface, they make a larger yield.
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I put everything in glass containers and I do add a paper towel. I do not wash until I am ready to use. They will last up to ten days.
I put vegetables into paper towels inside plastic bags & eat them as fast as I can. Thank you! 💜🙏🏽🧡☕️🤍🌞☺️🎉
I do the paper towel thing with lettuce after I've washed, spin dry and store in fridge in plastic container. I always remove the green part of radishes when I bring a bunch home as the greens get super soggy very quickly. Thanks for your tips!
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Thanks for the great ideas! I slice bananas and pineapple up and freeze for smoothies.
When my blueberries are about to go bad, I stick them in the freezer and add to fruit smoothies also. It adds that coldness so I use less ice
Wrap celery in foil then store in fridge
Nice tip that has helped us at our house Celery lasts at lease twice as long if you wrap it in aluminum foil
What do you think if Debbie Myers green bags! I love them.
Good tip about putting avocados in water! I tried freezing them once and they got ruined. What did I do wrong? I put the whole thing in the freezer without peeling it first.
You've got a healing and put them in? Ziploc and squeeze all the air out
Thank you I’m from Delaware Wilmington I will be following
I put my salad greens in half gallon mason jars and use a food saver to pull the air out of them. Keeps salad greens for a week or more.
I do the water/avocado FREQUENTLY! i keep my strawberries/berries unwashed till I use them- but in glass jars to last longer... LOVE all these tips!!
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Radishes I storage in a little water & they stay crispy.
Sounds great! -LGD Team
Great tips! Thank you!
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Cut avocado in half, take pit out. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze.
Wait until bananas are overripe to peel and break in half before freezing for right portion size for smoothies.
Great tips!❤
Thanks for being here with us:) -LGD Team
Thanks
Do you put the herbs in a glass with water in the bottom and then put them in the fridge? Also, when you put unwashed berries in a mason jar and put them in the fridge, should you put the lid on it? Thank you for this video. It's very helpful.
Put a paper towel in jar with strawberries and put the lid on
I take celery out of the bag and wrap tin foil around it. Keeps it crisp longer
You two are so Cute!!😉💕
What if you are allergic to avocado? I know right? I guess I can’t digest or tolerate the lecithin?
😢once I picked parsley, put it in a glass of water and put it in the refrigerator. A few hours later I opened the door to look at the parsley and found a woolly worm crawling to top of a branch.
Peel bananas and freeze for smoothies
What are your thoughts on Forever bags?
We always recommend researching the brand first:) -LGD Team
Wrap the Banana stalk with plastic.
Speaking of cheese...what's the best way to store it? I've tried leaving it in the package it comes in, wrapping it in Alum foil, wrapping it in wax paper, putting it in a zip lock with no air; all these still allow mold. Short of sealing it up with a food saver, is there any other way to keep it longer?
Moisten a paper towel with vinegar. Wring it out so it's dry, wrap the cheese, then put it in a glass container.
I see you are using glass containers and not plastic. Me too.
We always prefer glass!😊 -LGD Team