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Goood morning All
Somewhere on this thread or its predecessor is a tip to put spring onions into a glass of water when you get them home from the shop. I’d never done it, just dumped them into the veg drawer in the fridge, where they’d keep for a week or so.
Anyway, earlier this month, I heard the tip mentioned on a podcast and decided to try it (I’m 99% certain it was Martin’s BBC radio podcast). On 14th February, we purchased some spring onions. This time, with that tip in mind, I put them in a glass of water on the kitchen windowsill AND YES! It does work! These are the spring onions after two weeks, looking very healthy:
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Another tip I've heard is to start using them up from the tip, as that's the first bit to go off. So, don't finish them one after the other, but the top inch from all, and then the next inch from all.
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another thing I do is when I have bought a celery as I live alone it can take awhile to use it up so I wrap it in tin foil and keep it in the fridge and it lasts for ages. I also like sweetheart cabbage and I do the same with that highly wrapped in tin foil and only cut off what I need to cook and rewrap it and store in the fridge . The stalks of broccoli sometimes are quite long so I cut them off wrap in cling film and freeze then when I'm cooking a casserole they get sliced up and chucked in as extra green veg. I hate wasting anything edible at all
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I started buying gem lettuces as it's cheaper than bags. I use old greek yogurt tubs with water in to keep them and celery / spring onions / herbs fresh. Change the water daily. It also keeps them on view so I'm more likely to use them than if they are hidden at the bottom of the fridge :-) I did grow gem lettuces last year in containers which worked well!Pay off mortgage by Jan 202510
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I love this thread so good to see new posts, we all need more ways to save the pennies more than ever now.
I don't like to waste anything, I have a brocolli stalk in the fridge ready to be chopped up to go into a soup.10
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