Jerry also likes having apples, oranges and other fruit for munching, but it seems like stuff always goes bad so we end up throwing it away, which in turn keeps us from buying more, because we don't want it to go bad, and so goes the vicious circle...
One thing we figured out was that if we keep all of our salad ingredients separate, they stay fresher longer. So now, the middle shelf of our fridge looks like a salad bar. We just mix it up by the bowl as we want it. The one thing we were having trouble keeping fresh were the mushrooms. Thankfully my brilliant husband remembered something he saw on the food channel that said storing mushrooms in a brown paper bag keeps them fresh. Throw them in the Crisper drawer and you'll have them all week. I love having fresh mushrooms for cooking. Viola! Now I can buy the big pack of mushrooms without worrying.
Now Jerry and I go on a produce run to Sam's once a week and we have all our salad fixins for an entire week and they stay fresh and usually overlap with the new stuff.
The attached article helped us figure out what to store how, like how to actually USE the drawers at the bottom of the fridge. The best tip was to keep apples separate from everything else because they will cause other fruits to spoil.
WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO STORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES?
