Tips to Help Produce Last

Are you trying to limit your grocery store outings?
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Here are some of my tips to help you keep your produce last longer: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1) Winter Squashes – while it’s the end of the season or maybe not even in season, squashes last a long time and are very nutrient dense (butternut, acorn, kombocha, delicata, and spaghetti squash). I have been buying them from @erewhonmarket.
2) Berries – Make sure when you get them, put them into an open glass Tupperware on top of a dry unbleached paper towel. See my highlights for how I do this. Also I have been buying them from @harrysberries @smfms and they have been doing a great job. If you are not going through them fast enough and they are starting to get soft – wash and freeze them or put them in a pot, heat and mash up with chia seeds to make berry chia jam.
3) Apples –they can last a long time and if you don’t go through them, you can always stew them or boil them down to make applesauce which can also be frozen and added to your baked goods or oatmeal.
4) Batch cook muffins, pancakes and waffles and freeze some. Then your mornings are freed up to do work or self care instead. See my website for recipes.
5) Greens - Wrap your greens like dino kale and swiss chard and spring onions with dry unbleached paper towel and then saran wrap it. Also, You don’t need to wash your produce right when you get it. Remove containers and wipe down surfaces and handles and wash produce when you need to use it. I really think that @stasherbags make things last a lot longer any way. You just have to make sure they are dry when you put them in there. Check them every week to remove the wet or brown looking greens .
6) Keep your apples and your onions separate from everything else as they will make your produce ripen faster. .
7) Buy unripe avocados and keep them in the fridge. Pull them out as needed to ripen. To ripen faster, can place in a brown paper bag with an apple.