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How do you guys and gals keep your veggies from going bad? Whenever I buy a variety of vegetables for the week, something always happens where I can't get home to cook/eat them right away. Then they go bad within a week and a half in the fridge. And I'm not talking about fancy stuff...I'm talking about things like tomatoes, cucumbers, and spinach here.
So, am I stuck buying one or two kinds of fresh vegetables every three days and only eating those until they are gone or is there a way to buy a variety of vegetables on one day and be able to eat them over two weeks.
I feel like I'm missing a key piece here....
So, am I stuck buying one or two kinds of fresh vegetables every three days and only eating those until they are gone or is there a way to buy a variety of vegetables on one day and be able to eat them over two weeks.
I feel like I'm missing a key piece here....
I really do not know the answer, but I can tell a few things that I do know.
In the old days people really thought hard about the same thing, and that is why they started things like stewing tomatoes and putting stewed tomatoes in a closed tight jar.
I hear that people use to dig a hole in the ground in their shed to store potatoes through the year and supposedly it worked.
People learned to dry out beans, and raisins were accidentally invented by drying out grapes.
We know that Native American Indians use to bury their seed corn in the ground but I do not know how they kept anything else. I suspect the Indians actually left their veggies growing in their garden and only picked what they would eat each day.
My own idea is that veggies like spinach and broccoli are like flowers, so people put flowers in a vase of water and then the flowers last much longer and fresh too, so put the stems of broccoli and spinach into a bowl of water and they too will drink it up and last longer.
I see in grocery stores that they spray their veggies with water at least once a day so that has to be one big way of preserving the veggies for a little longer.
And freezing veggies in the freezer works - but I never do that.
For myself I buy veggies in cans and in frozen foods and I accept my own limitations.
We bought a new fridge a year ago, after ours died, and that made a difference. A consistent temperature is what they need and our old fridge was all over the place.
Also some veggies give off gases and need to be stored correctly, like mushrooms in a paper bag, and celery in tin foil. I found that keeping veggies in plastic bags rot them quicker. Water also rots veggies quicker, and it's best to wash them just before eating. The more water that hits them, the quicker they'll fade.
I also tend to eat the delicate ones within the first few days of shopping and leave the heartier ones towards the end of the week. But mostly, I too find it difficult to keep veggies fresh going into week two. Maybe we have some connoisseurs around that can pipe in with their tips.