Food Storage

How To Store Packaged Salad Greens To Keep Them Fresh

When you buy packaged salad greens, do they spoil quickly? Don’t you just hate it when your packaged lettuce leaves turn soggy and wilted after just a few days? Do you shell out money on organic lettuce greens just to have them spoil before the expiration date? With my method of storing packaged salad...

red apples stored in a basket on the counter

Apples have a longer shelf life than most other fruits and vegetables, so storing apples to keep them fresh is pretty easy. Should you store apples in the refrigerator or on the counter? Well, it depends on 2 factors: the first factor is how much refrigerator space do you have and the second factor...

Have you had brown sugar turn rock-hard on you? Did you use it just once, then closed the re-sealable bag that the brown sugar came in… and when you wanted to use it again a month later, the brown sugar was hard as a rock? Did you try to be smart and store the...

Many times you only need to use half of an onion, or even a quarter of an onion. For example, if you need to make a sandwich or a salad, you might only need a few onion slices. If you only use part of an onion, what do you do with the rest of...

There might be many situations where you only need to use half of avocado at a time. You might want to eat some avocado by yourself, but the whole avocado is too much for 1 person. You might be making an avocado salad where there are many ingredients and only a half of avocado...

Do you love french toast for breakfast? Are you NOT a morning person? Don’t have the energy to cook french toast in the morning? When you just wake up, you don’t feel like slicing the bread, mixing eggs and milk, getting out the frying pan, heating the frying pan, dipping the bread in eggs...

Cucumber is a popular vegetable that is widely available in the supermarkets. Cucumbers are great in salads and sandwiches. Most adults either like cucumbers or are simply indifferent to them. Very few people dislike cucumbers – unlike, let’s say, broccoli :) Cucumbers are crispy, mild-tasting, nutritious and don’t need to be cooked – what...

Raw beets can stay fresh for a long time if you store them properly. So how do you store beets? Do you keep beets in the refrigerator? Do you store beets in a pantry closet? Do you keep beets in the plastic bag, paper bag or without a bag? I found out the hard...

I often get freshly sliced lunch meat from the deli. I love to make sandwiches with fresh roast beef, turkey (especially honey-roasted turkey), ham, salami and other types of cold cut deli meats. Before I discovered a new way to keep the lunch meat fresh, the lunch meat would only stay fresh in my...