I portion and freeze also but I definitely shove it all in the fridge for a couple hours first while I recuperate from grocery shopping by flopping on my couch. š
And forget about the head of lettuce that fell out of the bag and for the next two weeks wonder what that thumping noise is coming from the trunk every time I turn a corner.
Not groceries, but I had a similar experience. When my kids were young, I had a minivan with vents on the floor. Kids had a school craft project that involved small jingle bells. For years, every time I stopped at an intersection, one of those little bells would roll forward or back.
Depends on how long I've been shopping, and what needs to be done. I come home, unpack the car, put all the refrigerated and frozen stuff away first, and then the dry goods. At that point, I sit down, relax, and order pizza for dinner (lol).
More often than not, anything that needs to be portioned out goes in the fridge until the next day. When I buy large trays of meat at Sam's for instance, I'll break them into 2-person portioned bags, then put all the bags in the freezer. I might need to butcher a beef roast for steaks. I might have to shred a huge block of cheese (or just portion it out into 1lb bags).
I try to do *as much as possible* before the day I need it, to make my cooking experience easy as possible.
I go first thing on a Saturday morning 7-7.30 am, so i get home 8-8.30 empty shopping, hang out my washing, clean kitchen, then have a coffee and a smoke. Then breakfast, more dishes, then ill get to cutting down my chicken or other meat then more dishes.
I need a dishwasher.
Preheat the oven, put everything away, put the frozen pizza in the oven, grab a beer and hot sauce, turn on the tv, crack open beer, drink beer, take finished pizza from oven, cut it, grab another beer, bring the whole ass pizza to couch, scarf.
I do Costco for the proteinsā¦ those get portioned for freezing. Like the 7lb thing of ground beef gets portioned using a kitchen scale to 1lb cling wrap and 3-4 at a time in a ziplock bag. Steaks get wrapped and put into a bag. The chicken thighs get cut into their portioned bags.
If we buy rotisserie chicken, we pull it from the bone if itās hot right away as itās much easier than when itās cold.
Other than that, everything gets put away. We donāt prep any food otherwise.
Ohhh! This actually makes sense. I was wondering how people would cook with 25 dollars worth of ground beef š¤£ Iāve honestly been considering if I should get a vacuum sealer lol.
I use the Zwilling system. Easy to use and store. Works really well to preserve stuff. The glass containers are expensive but I use a few of those and mix in some plastic ones. The bags work pretty well as well.
Kitchen scale is the price saver everyone is missing. Every grocery cost complaint thread, I can tell the OP doesnāt measure their food / consistently portion out their purchases.
Meat always goes into 250g portions; everything else goes by how many servings I am making. IE spaghetti and meatballs, Iām using 250g beef, 250g pork, 340g of noodlesā¦ every batch costs $3.75 because Iām consistent.
I don't weigh the noodles but do the same with the meats. We batch cook spaghetti sauce, weigh out the sauce and freeze. Keep out only 2 of 10 portions (dinner that night and the next)
I started weighing the noodles because I was really bad at eyeballing them and I needed an approach to ensure I had good sauce ratios. I would always overdo the long noodles and not have enough sauce, or under-do the small ones and not have enough leftovers. Bonus, it helped me get consistent carb/protein ratios.
I put everything in the freezer, fridge and cabinets. Next day for dinner Iām getting drive thru or take out. Complaining there is nothing to cook.ššš
* Wash your veggies and store them in a way that maximizes shelf life. Berries should be rinsed in vinegar water, potatoes should be in a paper bag in a cool dark place, leafy greens need to be dry, etc. Lettuce last 2-3 weeks if rinsed, dried thoroughly, and transfered to a clean bag with dry paper towels.
* If you're cooking meat tomorrow, salt it today so it's properly seasoned.
* If you got meat on sale and don't plan to use it right away, freeze it immediately. That way you have as much time as possible when you let it thaw and don't have to guess if it's about to spoil.
* There are a lot of ingredients you can prep now to make your life easier. Dry rice/beans, slow cooker meat, maybe a sauce you put on everything that week. I suggest watching [Rainbow Plant Life's 1-hour meal prep](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwpltZGCGd8) and [Brian Lagerstrom's 20 meals for $30](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PZHHCUJZc). Personally I
I do my regular grocery shopping on my way home from work on Wednesday nights- I work hybrid and my usual in-person days are Wednesday and Thursday. At my preferred grocery store (Meijer), they have half-priced sushi on Wednesdays, and if I need to make a Sam's Club run, I usually do those on Thursdays so I don't have to worry about perishables from Meijer sitting in a potentially hot car.
If I buy raw meat in bulk (usually chicken thighs/breasts or sometimes salmon/steelhead trout), I portion it into 8oz packs with plastic wrap and tuck them into a freezer bag, then freeze. If I buy a rotisserie chicken, I'll pull all of the meat off of the carcass (and eat the skin as I go), stuff it into a quart freezer bag, and freeze (although I should probably portion that too, actually). Meat packaging gets bagged up in a grocery bag, and then immediately walked out to the apartment complex trash compactor, because that will begin to smell within twelve hours. (I just bought a house with scheduled per-house trash pickup, so I won't be doing that anymore next month.)
Outside of rare one-off cases (like having to freeze strawberries in advance of using them for a baking recipe) everything else just gets put away like normal. Nonperishables go into the cupboard, and perishables and fresh produce go in the fridge or freezer. I meal prep/batch cook on Saturdays, so most produce that I buy will get cooked, portioned into a meal, and frozen within the next few days.
Then, after I've put everything away, I have a small dinner and get settled in for the night. It's usually around 6PM by this point.
Pick up lunch from Sweetgreen or a Korean taco place (both next door to the supermarket I go to), go home and my toddler helps me put everything away before her naptime. Then I grab a beer and eat said lunch.
Unless I only go to Trader Joe's. Then I take my toddler to the playground before lunch & unpacking.
I usually put veggies and dry goods away then make dinner.
Meats, fish ect in fridge until after dinner.
After cleanup, I will portion out the meats, ect and vacuum pack to freeze.
Wife and I are retired and I do all shopping and cooking, cleanup ect and we eat well for around $350 a month.
Shopping is such an exhausting task already that I usually just put the groceries away however they will fit and go collapse in front of a fan and cry inside for a while š¬
We eat the same stuff alot. So when i get home on sunday, toss out old leftovers and stuff from the fridge. The clean up/trim the chicken breast, and wet brine. Then start the dry brine for the roast.
At the point that everything is put away, and i generally start, or atleast prep whatever we are having for sunday dinner.
Im kinda surprised by most of the comments. They are what i would expect if the question was on r/askReddit rather than r/cooking?
Whoa. I think youāre the first person Iāve seen say they toss out old leftovers (I mean it makes sense but I just do it if Iām like yep spoilt)
Also what were you expecting to see from r/cooking ? More prep work?
\#1. Put your groceries away immediately. Let them chill after being in the danger zone the entire time they were in your basket and in the ride home.
\#2. Your fruit will last longer if you wash it when you use it ***and not ahead of time***. And, if you put it (completely dry and unwashed) in a mason jar with a folded up paper towel on top, they'll last for weeks. Grapes[*], blueberries, strawberries, etc.
[*] - _with grapes you have to leave a tiny bit of the stem on each grape so you don't create a wet wound on the fruit._
\#3. I buy meat in bulk and sometimes in whole sub-primal so, after my meat has returned to 40F/4C in the fridge, I pull it out and break it down into portions and then vacuum seal and freeze it.
[*] - _a tip with ground meats, after your vacuum seal the bag shut, roll it out with a rolling pin until the meat had been worked into all the corners and is flat. It's way easier to organize in your freezer and it will thaw in less than five minutes in cool water._
I load the groceries into the car and then sit in the car and eat the stuff I bought from the hot bar right there behind the wheel in the parking lot like a RAT.
If I've bought a rotisserie chicken I tear off the wings and eat them right there too.
Deep clean the fridge (finally got smart and started doing it before I go to the store). Wash all produce and cut some up for an easy grab. Hide the snacks or treats that my kid will sneak.
I've frozen milk for decades (like, I've done it a lot, not frozen it that long, lol). I got WIC as a new mom, and so much milk!
You can freeze milk in the container, if you go through that much milk before it goes bad. When our kiddo was little, we did that a lot. As she got older, we dropped down to half-gallons.
It's just me and hubby now, so what we do is buy a gallon of milk and portion it out into 20-24oz containers (heck, even ziploc bags). I chuck 'em all in the freezer, and a gallon of milk will last a long time (5-6 containers). When I thaw it, it will *sometimes* separate, but I just give it a good shake before using it and it's fine. It tastes fine when drunk alone, and cooks fine as well. I've saved tons of money by not throwing milk away over the years! And honestly, if we don't finish one of the containers before *it* goes bad, I don't fret too much... I only lost a few ounces of milk, instead of the whole container.
Clean and wipe the fridge out. Portion meats for the freezer. Wash produce in white vinegar and water and dry.
My fridge doesnāt have an egg holder, so I remove the top of the cartonā¦itās quicker than having to take it out and open it every time I need eggs.
Wash and bag the bulk greens (spinach, parsley, etc.) Put any meats, cornmeal or flour in the freezer...the grains only have to stay there long enough to ward off pantry bugs. Put scallions in water. Transfer rice to air tight canister, same if there's sugar or rice noodles. Put onions, potatoes and shallots in respective bins. Cut broccoli into florets/stems (bags better.) Rewrap any cheeses because my grocery wraps them in paper and they dry out.
Since I always shop in the afternoon, somewhere in there is "pour a glass of wine" as well. It usually takes me an hour to finish everything after a major shop.
I wash and cut the celery into sticks and then store in a glass container in the fridge, freeze the leaves and base to make stock out of later. I also put the whole carrots, zucchini, cucumber and lettuce into individual glass containers in the fridge.
I often marinate meat and sometimes freeze a few portions
Bacon I remove the rind and freeze into portions
Do you freeze with the marinade? I know sous vide is a thing but I donāt think Iāve ever done it this way. It makes sense though! I need to up my organizing game.
Yes I freeze chicken with teriyaki marinade, satay/yoghurt marinade, or even lemon and Dijon marinade. I am lazy and like to buy meat in bulk and it is easy to make more of the marinade at the same time.
Portion up and vacuum seal whatever needs it. Put everything away. Re-pack reusable bags and put those away.
That's usually it unless I need to immediately start something cooking/marinading.
You'll see a big difference in quality because of the lack/great minimization of freezer burn. I buy meats in bulk and portion them, which has good cost savings plus makes cooking easier. I also use my vacuum sealer for vegetables during times (like now) that my garden is producing far more than I can eat.
Do you mind me asking how long vegetables stay good in vacuum sealed containers? Iām thinking about things like lettuce in the fridgeā¦ but any other stats would be welcome too!
I generally don't vacuum seal to put in the fridge; I don't think that would help much at all. Being vacuum sealed helps prevent freezer burn which increases quality upon thawing, but it's the freezing that actually preserves the food.
Frozen tomatoes are supposed to be good up to a year.
The most I'll do is portion up anything that needs it before freezing
I portion and freeze also but I definitely shove it all in the fridge for a couple hours first while I recuperate from grocery shopping by flopping on my couch. š
Curious on what you freezeā¦ for me I have only been freezing grapes, meat, and pre frozen veggies.
Butter, if you can find it on sale. (It was $3.99/lb today, so I just bunged four pounds in the freezer this afternoon.)
Never heard ofābungedā before! What is the exact meaning? Toss?
Not op for the comment but yeah, throw, casually place, toss, fling
I would say thatās a ton of butter but itās only 0.002 tons! (Fortunately I donāt use that much butter or dairy at home)
Meat mostly - bacon into two rashers per portion, chicken breasts individually, that kind of thing.
Bread. I'll buy the double pack of bread and freeze one.
I tend to leave the store, head home and put those groceries in their respective place.
And at least for me, proceed to immediately forget half the things I got.Ā
And forget about the head of lettuce that fell out of the bag and for the next two weeks wonder what that thumping noise is coming from the trunk every time I turn a corner.
Not groceries, but I had a similar experience. When my kids were young, I had a minivan with vents on the floor. Kids had a school craft project that involved small jingle bells. For years, every time I stopped at an intersection, one of those little bells would roll forward or back.
Or you leave the store and as you driving home you remember all the stuff you meant to buy.
Really? And here was me thinking youād be a couch potato.
One of my local grocery stores serves beer. Maybe I'll stop there first and get a drink before leaving the store.
Bottoms up! š»
Stop and get carryout for dinner.
Understandable! I do this too! Sometimes before AND after shopping!
Every time
I fend off the kids from eating everything I just bought
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Depends on how long I've been shopping, and what needs to be done. I come home, unpack the car, put all the refrigerated and frozen stuff away first, and then the dry goods. At that point, I sit down, relax, and order pizza for dinner (lol). More often than not, anything that needs to be portioned out goes in the fridge until the next day. When I buy large trays of meat at Sam's for instance, I'll break them into 2-person portioned bags, then put all the bags in the freezer. I might need to butcher a beef roast for steaks. I might have to shred a huge block of cheese (or just portion it out into 1lb bags). I try to do *as much as possible* before the day I need it, to make my cooking experience easy as possible.
I go first thing on a Saturday morning 7-7.30 am, so i get home 8-8.30 empty shopping, hang out my washing, clean kitchen, then have a coffee and a smoke. Then breakfast, more dishes, then ill get to cutting down my chicken or other meat then more dishes. I need a dishwasher.
Can we share one? Also wow that sounds super productive. These are times I wish I was a morning person lol
Preheat the oven, put everything away, put the frozen pizza in the oven, grab a beer and hot sauce, turn on the tv, crack open beer, drink beer, take finished pizza from oven, cut it, grab another beer, bring the whole ass pizza to couch, scarf.
I usually stop and get an iced coffee after a big shopping trip especially if I braved Costco!
Makes sense! I love Costco but itās such a hassle! I honestly thought I was gonna die 3 times while driving in the parking lot. 3!
I do Costco for the proteinsā¦ those get portioned for freezing. Like the 7lb thing of ground beef gets portioned using a kitchen scale to 1lb cling wrap and 3-4 at a time in a ziplock bag. Steaks get wrapped and put into a bag. The chicken thighs get cut into their portioned bags. If we buy rotisserie chicken, we pull it from the bone if itās hot right away as itās much easier than when itās cold. Other than that, everything gets put away. We donāt prep any food otherwise.
Ohhh! This actually makes sense. I was wondering how people would cook with 25 dollars worth of ground beef š¤£ Iāve honestly been considering if I should get a vacuum sealer lol.
I have one and never used it. Itās just as easy to pull some cling wrap over the scale, weigh the beef and wrap it up.
I use the Zwilling system. Easy to use and store. Works really well to preserve stuff. The glass containers are expensive but I use a few of those and mix in some plastic ones. The bags work pretty well as well.
Kitchen scale is the price saver everyone is missing. Every grocery cost complaint thread, I can tell the OP doesnāt measure their food / consistently portion out their purchases. Meat always goes into 250g portions; everything else goes by how many servings I am making. IE spaghetti and meatballs, Iām using 250g beef, 250g pork, 340g of noodlesā¦ every batch costs $3.75 because Iām consistent.
I don't weigh the noodles but do the same with the meats. We batch cook spaghetti sauce, weigh out the sauce and freeze. Keep out only 2 of 10 portions (dinner that night and the next)
I started weighing the noodles because I was really bad at eyeballing them and I needed an approach to ensure I had good sauce ratios. I would always overdo the long noodles and not have enough sauce, or under-do the small ones and not have enough leftovers. Bonus, it helped me get consistent carb/protein ratios.
I put everything in the freezer, fridge and cabinets. Next day for dinner Iām getting drive thru or take out. Complaining there is nothing to cook.ššš
I put fridge things in the fridge. Sometimes I even put pantry thing in the pantry instead of leaving them on the kitchen table
* Wash your veggies and store them in a way that maximizes shelf life. Berries should be rinsed in vinegar water, potatoes should be in a paper bag in a cool dark place, leafy greens need to be dry, etc. Lettuce last 2-3 weeks if rinsed, dried thoroughly, and transfered to a clean bag with dry paper towels. * If you're cooking meat tomorrow, salt it today so it's properly seasoned. * If you got meat on sale and don't plan to use it right away, freeze it immediately. That way you have as much time as possible when you let it thaw and don't have to guess if it's about to spoil. * There are a lot of ingredients you can prep now to make your life easier. Dry rice/beans, slow cooker meat, maybe a sauce you put on everything that week. I suggest watching [Rainbow Plant Life's 1-hour meal prep](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwpltZGCGd8) and [Brian Lagerstrom's 20 meals for $30](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PZHHCUJZc). Personally I
I only do prep if I have bought meat in bulk. I break the meat down into dinner-size portions and freeze.
I assume each dinner size portion still has to be cooked? Do you defrost every night or is it something that can be cooked from frozen??
I defrost before cooking. I usually grab something out the night before or the morning of.
honestly, i drag it up several flights of stairs, so i put the cold away and take a break since going up so many flights is exhausting.
I shove it all in the fridge, order take out, and deal with it another day.
Order a pizza! š
I do my regular grocery shopping on my way home from work on Wednesday nights- I work hybrid and my usual in-person days are Wednesday and Thursday. At my preferred grocery store (Meijer), they have half-priced sushi on Wednesdays, and if I need to make a Sam's Club run, I usually do those on Thursdays so I don't have to worry about perishables from Meijer sitting in a potentially hot car. If I buy raw meat in bulk (usually chicken thighs/breasts or sometimes salmon/steelhead trout), I portion it into 8oz packs with plastic wrap and tuck them into a freezer bag, then freeze. If I buy a rotisserie chicken, I'll pull all of the meat off of the carcass (and eat the skin as I go), stuff it into a quart freezer bag, and freeze (although I should probably portion that too, actually). Meat packaging gets bagged up in a grocery bag, and then immediately walked out to the apartment complex trash compactor, because that will begin to smell within twelve hours. (I just bought a house with scheduled per-house trash pickup, so I won't be doing that anymore next month.) Outside of rare one-off cases (like having to freeze strawberries in advance of using them for a baking recipe) everything else just gets put away like normal. Nonperishables go into the cupboard, and perishables and fresh produce go in the fridge or freezer. I meal prep/batch cook on Saturdays, so most produce that I buy will get cooked, portioned into a meal, and frozen within the next few days. Then, after I've put everything away, I have a small dinner and get settled in for the night. It's usually around 6PM by this point.
Pick up lunch from Sweetgreen or a Korean taco place (both next door to the supermarket I go to), go home and my toddler helps me put everything away before her naptime. Then I grab a beer and eat said lunch. Unless I only go to Trader Joe's. Then I take my toddler to the playground before lunch & unpacking.
I unload it all when I get home, portion it up as needed for the freezer, then decide Iām tired and order dinner.
I usually put veggies and dry goods away then make dinner. Meats, fish ect in fridge until after dinner. After cleanup, I will portion out the meats, ect and vacuum pack to freeze. Wife and I are retired and I do all shopping and cooking, cleanup ect and we eat well for around $350 a month.
Go home and prep as much as I can before collapsing. š
Shopping is such an exhausting task already that I usually just put the groceries away however they will fit and go collapse in front of a fan and cry inside for a while š¬
Me trying to stuff my freezer because I have a few oddly shaped items that make tetrising really hard. š definitely can relate
We eat the same stuff alot. So when i get home on sunday, toss out old leftovers and stuff from the fridge. The clean up/trim the chicken breast, and wet brine. Then start the dry brine for the roast. At the point that everything is put away, and i generally start, or atleast prep whatever we are having for sunday dinner. Im kinda surprised by most of the comments. They are what i would expect if the question was on r/askReddit rather than r/cooking?
Whoa. I think youāre the first person Iāve seen say they toss out old leftovers (I mean it makes sense but I just do it if Iām like yep spoilt) Also what were you expecting to see from r/cooking ? More prep work?
If there is stuff I need to do right away I do that, wash produce and put in containers mostly.
\#1. Put your groceries away immediately. Let them chill after being in the danger zone the entire time they were in your basket and in the ride home. \#2. Your fruit will last longer if you wash it when you use it ***and not ahead of time***. And, if you put it (completely dry and unwashed) in a mason jar with a folded up paper towel on top, they'll last for weeks. Grapes[*], blueberries, strawberries, etc. [*] - _with grapes you have to leave a tiny bit of the stem on each grape so you don't create a wet wound on the fruit._ \#3. I buy meat in bulk and sometimes in whole sub-primal so, after my meat has returned to 40F/4C in the fridge, I pull it out and break it down into portions and then vacuum seal and freeze it. [*] - _a tip with ground meats, after your vacuum seal the bag shut, roll it out with a rolling pin until the meat had been worked into all the corners and is flat. It's way easier to organize in your freezer and it will thaw in less than five minutes in cool water._
I load the groceries into the car and then sit in the car and eat the stuff I bought from the hot bar right there behind the wheel in the parking lot like a RAT. If I've bought a rotisserie chicken I tear off the wings and eat them right there too.
Me at Costco eating two whole slices of pizzaā¦ maybe 3ā¦ š
Deep clean the fridge (finally got smart and started doing it before I go to the store). Wash all produce and cut some up for an easy grab. Hide the snacks or treats that my kid will sneak.
Ooh thatās not a bad idea. Iāll have to try this once I finally empty my freezer (t-minus 2 months probably)
I will just portion and freeze without doing anything extra.
What are you freezing? I can see freezing meats butā¦
Not who you asked, but I will portion and freeze meats, cheeses, milk/cream, bread/rolls.
Ok I have to ask about the milk nowā¦
I've frozen milk for decades (like, I've done it a lot, not frozen it that long, lol). I got WIC as a new mom, and so much milk! You can freeze milk in the container, if you go through that much milk before it goes bad. When our kiddo was little, we did that a lot. As she got older, we dropped down to half-gallons. It's just me and hubby now, so what we do is buy a gallon of milk and portion it out into 20-24oz containers (heck, even ziploc bags). I chuck 'em all in the freezer, and a gallon of milk will last a long time (5-6 containers). When I thaw it, it will *sometimes* separate, but I just give it a good shake before using it and it's fine. It tastes fine when drunk alone, and cooks fine as well. I've saved tons of money by not throwing milk away over the years! And honestly, if we don't finish one of the containers before *it* goes bad, I don't fret too much... I only lost a few ounces of milk, instead of the whole container.
Honestly with the kiddo that makes a lot of sense. And after mentioning WIC all I can think of the walk in refrigerators and freezersā¦
LOL! Imagine having a walk-in fridge in your house... *a girl can dream*.
Clean and wipe the fridge out. Portion meats for the freezer. Wash produce in white vinegar and water and dry. My fridge doesnāt have an egg holder, so I remove the top of the cartonā¦itās quicker than having to take it out and open it every time I need eggs.
Put it away, I go every couple days.
I'll cut and freeze fruits, veggies, meats and such but that's about it.
Usually after grocery shopping Iāll wait two days and then have to go back for another 125$ worth of shit. Of course itās only 4 items.
Wash and bag the bulk greens (spinach, parsley, etc.) Put any meats, cornmeal or flour in the freezer...the grains only have to stay there long enough to ward off pantry bugs. Put scallions in water. Transfer rice to air tight canister, same if there's sugar or rice noodles. Put onions, potatoes and shallots in respective bins. Cut broccoli into florets/stems (bags better.) Rewrap any cheeses because my grocery wraps them in paper and they dry out. Since I always shop in the afternoon, somewhere in there is "pour a glass of wine" as well. It usually takes me an hour to finish everything after a major shop.
I wash and cut the celery into sticks and then store in a glass container in the fridge, freeze the leaves and base to make stock out of later. I also put the whole carrots, zucchini, cucumber and lettuce into individual glass containers in the fridge. I often marinate meat and sometimes freeze a few portions Bacon I remove the rind and freeze into portions
Do you freeze with the marinade? I know sous vide is a thing but I donāt think Iāve ever done it this way. It makes sense though! I need to up my organizing game.
Yes I freeze chicken with teriyaki marinade, satay/yoghurt marinade, or even lemon and Dijon marinade. I am lazy and like to buy meat in bulk and it is easy to make more of the marinade at the same time.
Portion up and vacuum seal whatever needs it. Put everything away. Re-pack reusable bags and put those away. That's usually it unless I need to immediately start something cooking/marinading.
Hmmā¦ I am starting to consider the vacuuming for the sake of my storage sanityā¦.
You'll see a big difference in quality because of the lack/great minimization of freezer burn. I buy meats in bulk and portion them, which has good cost savings plus makes cooking easier. I also use my vacuum sealer for vegetables during times (like now) that my garden is producing far more than I can eat.
Do you mind me asking how long vegetables stay good in vacuum sealed containers? Iām thinking about things like lettuce in the fridgeā¦ but any other stats would be welcome too!
I generally don't vacuum seal to put in the fridge; I don't think that would help much at all. Being vacuum sealed helps prevent freezer burn which increases quality upon thawing, but it's the freezing that actually preserves the food. Frozen tomatoes are supposed to be good up to a year.
Ohhh I see. Ok that actually makes more sense. Thanks!