oodles of carrots

Pollybear

carrot cake?

Deedee73

Carrot carving!
Or a nice carrrot and corriander or ginger soup, great to freeze down too!

horsechestnut

Carrot and coriander soup.(freeze it)
Carrot and turnip
Carrot cake (freeze them)

Pink.

Hi Jolanta Nowak,

There's an older thread with lots of ideas for using carrots that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

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Ebenezer_Scrooge_2

Everytime i buy carrots, parsnips ect, they are normally wrapped in plastic bags and still damp, so i take them out, dry them and put them on a veg rack.

However they always seem to go wrinkly and mouldy within 3-4 days!

What is the best way to keep root veg, potatoes ect?

mummyto3_2

Root veg carrots parsnips etc I keep in the bottom of my fridge in the salad draw loose not in the bags. Potatoes I keep on the veg rack in my kitchen in a brown bag. I have my veg delivered by riverford and it keeps much longer than the supermarket stuff and tastes so much nicer. My eldest DS (nearly 6) only likes riverford carrots he would never eats asda's carrots he can even tell when I have run out and bought supermarket organic as a top up.

Penelope_Penguin

I buy my potatoes from the farm shop in brown paper sacks. I keep this in the shed. If I have dug spare carrots and potatoes, I put them in there, too, and they keep fine for ages.

Penny. x

debbiedebt

Try and buy them from a farm shop if possible with a bit of dirt still on them. I put mine in the conservatory which is quite cold at the moment and they keep for ages.

If you cannot get to a farm shop try the Lakeland veg storage bags. They really do work.

squeaky

I line my salad trays with kitchen towel to help absorb the moisture all vegetables seem to give off.

In fact - I'm considering adding a dish of salt. It's deliquescent (mildly) and so will absorb some of the moisture out of the air.

Seakay

Washed veg go wrinkly etc more quickly than unwashed. Getting rid of the plastic is good - at least they are drying and not rotting and they can be used in stews etc when a little wrinkly because the flavour will be fine.
I used to keep mine in a thick brown paper bag in the veg rack - to exclude light, provide a dry atmosphere and ensure a free flow of air. Even so, I often couldn't keep them for more than a week.
Salad draw of the fridge can work well, but I would line the bottom with kitchen towel first and check it often - replace it if it gets damp. Although you are drying your veg they may have been getting damp in the bag for some time before you buy them.