Loads of left over salad stuff

Eenymeeny

Some great tips here thanks. I hate to find soggy tomatoes in the salad drawer, they seem to go off more quickly these days!
I bought a pack of living leaves last summer and planted them in a container outside my back door. They kept growing and provided me with enough salad for my needs until the weather got really cold.
I also grew spring onions from seed and realised that if I just cut a piece off each onion as required they keep growing. (I've heard that you can keep bought spring onions in a jar of water on the kitchen windowsill and do the same thing, although I haven't tried it)

-taff

I'm not surprised they do, they aren;t in season and they are tasteless lumps [can you tell what my pet hate is? ]

Salad won't keep for a week in the fridge, or at least, not leaves, because they're mostly water. When you cut off it's water supply it'll start going soggy.
Wash them in cold water, spin them well, and put them in the salad drawer with a teatowel lining, and they keep three or four days.
Pasta and rice salads would be one way of keeping them longer, and you can pre-cook your pasta or rice, freeze, then add what you like when you takew it out.
Lidls do a good range of cheap antipasti, so a bowl of rice, with some chopped frankfurter type sausages, with chopped carrot/vegetables in oil/artichokes/aubergine/mushrooms etc is filling and will keep.

thehappybutterfly

I've got to confess - I hate salad. I think salad ingredients look delicious but I always get bored halfway through the plate never mind the salad drawer. I buy lots of peppers but lettuce, cuke, scallions and tomatoes always end up in the bin.

I've got incredibly sensitive teeth too so salad actually hurts me!

parsonswife8

I always roll my cucumbers up in paper kitchen towel and put one or two sheets of it in with lettuce and salad leaves to absorb moisture.

We like rocket and thinly sliced radishes, cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced cucumber, spring onions, crumbled up stilton cheese and a dash of olive oil.:)

tanith

I store all my veg including salad stuff in those green bags that keep stuff fresh, they are brillian and keep everything fresh and crisp for over a week. I too buy little gem lettuce and half or quarter it to eat sometimes a bag of mixed salad but usually eat a salad then stuff the rest into sandwiches pretty quickly. I buy those bags from Wilkinson or £ shop.. I rarely waste anything.

viv0147

Menu for Week 3

Monday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch & Dinner egg & chips & tinned fruit

Tuesday
Breakfast beans on toast
Lunch fresh fruits & ice cream
Dinner Spaghetti Bolognese

Wednesday
Breakfast shredded wheat
Lunch & dinner pork dinner & fruit & ice cream

Thursday
Breakfast two poached eggs & toast
Lunch fresh fruits & ice cream
Dinner Curry & rice

Friday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch & dinner Fish & chips & tinned fruit

Saturday
Breakfast Weetabix
Lunch fresh fruit & ice cream
Dinner ham dinner & parsley sauce

Sunday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch fresh fruits & ice cream
Dinner roast beef dinner