Whats your tip for keeping fruits and vegetables longer?

solise
on 10/16/12 7:07 am - Brooklyn, NY

I cant eat them fast enough and i get so tired of throwing it out.

Dave Chambers
on 10/16/12 7:12 am - Mira Loma, CA

Maybe you're buying too much of them? Or, you could chose some that were ripe for eating, and some that had to ripen a little more, giving you more time to eat them before they went bad. Dave

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LJ1972
on 10/16/12 7:13 am - FL

RNY on 08/16/11

strawberries and blueberries I soak a couple of minutes in a 1:5 white vinegar : water mix. They tend to last longer. Unless you do like I did this last time and forget them in there. Not so much.

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solise
on 10/16/12 7:21 am - Brooklyn, NY

RNY on 04/08/09

I always seem to forget there in there. I just threw out 3 tomatoes and 3 cucumbers. Last week it was strawberries that i never even opened.

noftessa0401
on 10/16/12 7:59 am - San Diego, CA

RNY on 12/27/12

They make Green Bags that you keep your fruits and veggies in to keep them fresher longer. I think the bags are kind of gross (and awkward) to clean out and dry. But, I found that they also make produce saver tupperware-like containers that can go in the dishwasher! Yay!

My fruits and veggies last about 2 weeks longer than they would normally. Yum!

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SarahLee1969
on 10/16/12 8:17 am - NY

I freeze what I can... cook and freeze the veggies. I have a food dehydrator... so tomato, peppers, etc can be dehydrated for later use too.
Buy in smaller amounts and plan what you want to eat for the week.
If you do shakes, most fruits can be blended into a shake even if over ripe.
I cook apples to make fresh applesauce, and you can add all sorts of other fruits to that like strawberries, plumbs, blueberries,raspberries, etc... then I freeze leftovers in small portions.

Carol S.
on 10/16/12 8:36 am - Milwaukee, WI

RNY on 09/08/03

You can blanche many veggies and then freeze.

Fruits you can slice, toss in some Splenda and feeze in old containers (example-Cool Whip/Margarine).

Carol

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Version
on 10/16/12 11:29 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

I have a Foodsaver vacuum sealer that I use for some fruits and veggies. Hard things like carrots, sliced peppers, grapes, etc. can be vacuum sealed in a bag; soft fruits like berries have to be out in a special hard-sided container and sealed that way.

I also found that I was wasting a lot of produce partly because of forgetting about it, so I changed my refrigerator use... I keep the veggies and fruit on the shelves where they are visible and I put my yogurt, string cheese, and some other items that I eat every day or almost every day in the produce drawers (since I never forget that I need my morning yogurt, even if it is out of sight).

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14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

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artroxy blue
on 10/16/12 9:51 pm - MA

RNY on 08/14/12

That's what we do, too. Yogurts, cottage cheese and ricotta go in the crisper drawers, fruit and veggies on the shelves, and cheese and lunch meats go in the bottom deli drawer. Our fridge had a drawer at the bottom, so it's easier to keep cheese and such in there.

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