Don’t Waste Food - or Money
Thanks, Cheryl B - always adding value! This came from Parenting Magazine, January 2008.
Keep your groceries fresh longer!
DON’T: Mix fruit and veggies - store seperately. Fruit gives off ethylene, a gas that will make veggies spoil.
DO: Put bananas in the fridge when they are ripened. They’ll taste just as good and last longer.
DON’T: Store potatoes, tomatoes, oranges or winter squash in your fridge. Keep them at room temp and out of direct sunlight.
DO: Freeze bread - it’ll stay fresh for about three months. Nix the fridge - it dries out baked goods.
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January 25, 2008 @ 1:10 am
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Oldnovice said,
January 25, 2008 @ 11:24 am
I disagree with Parenting Magazine on DON’T: Store potatoes, tomatoes, oranges or winter squash in your fridge. Keep them at room temp and out of direct sunlight.
I had two navel oranges that I left on the kitchen counter out of sunlight. They dried up. Then, somewhere, I read that citrus fruits are best refrigerated and started keeping all the citrus in the frig where they’re staying nice and juicy. I suppose they might be doing something to the other stuff that’s in the frig, but if they are, I haven’t noticed. Come to think of it, I also have apples with the zuccini and both look as fresh as the day I bought them.