Tuesday 21 August 2007

How to keep veggie fresher longer?


4 of us were talking about this topic over lunch, none of us are anywhere near good chefs, but then we were able to pick up pieces of information and advices here and there, and pierce them all together and made us all experts!

There's left-over food on the table and one of us decided to make that her pack-lunch tomorrow, together with veggies left in her fridge since last Sunday!


Last Sunday? We were all amazed...and then she proudly unveiled her little wisdom of life stolen from a colleague.


The secret is to wrap dry veggies in newspapers (yes, good old newspapers, not cling film) and place back into the plastic wrap. She claims this works magic with lettuce and celery.


I couldnt believe it and so the curious me went searching online and confirmed several matches. Due to cleanliness, I'd improve the formula a bit by replacing newspapers with paper towels.

I found out this idea will work with cheese also. After the cheese wrapper is opened, place cheese (with or without wrapper) in zipper sandwich bag and put a paper towel between cheese wrapper and baggie.

Same applies to ice cream to keep off the "frost", simply wad up a paper towel and place inside ice cream containers.

Not that I need it for my haggan daz ice cream at home as the tub is more than often finished before it hit the freezer again! However, what I wanna say is - this is wisdom of life.

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