OT: Nan And Others: Can We Talk Food Storage?

[jessrlee]

thanks! Please keep me in mind!

[AnneCordelia]

Yes! I also buy/grow bulk potatoes, carrots, onions, winter squash and hang them in burlap bags from my garage rafters. This spring as I was planting my zucchini, carrots and squash I still had a few of each from last year hanging.

Blanche green beans for 3 minutes and then freeze on cookie sheets, transfer to ziplocks. Delicious! Nothing beats that.

I also keep an eye on my grocery store produce. Make friends with the produce manager! Ask him about his produce (he's likely proud of it!), and ask what days he gets in orders. This way, I know that bananas come in on Monday nights...so Tuesday morning I can go and buy all the bananas from the previous week on clearance...usually about $0.03/banana. They are beautiful and perfectly ripe! Great for eating for a few more days or freezing for breads/muffins. It goes for all the produce that gets rotated quickly...bulk fruit, beans, lettuce/spinach, ect. The longer sitting stuff like potatos, onions and carrots don't rotate so quickly, so you'll rarely see them on the clearance cart.