Five expert tips to save money on your supermarket shop
GOOD TIPS
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A SUSTAINABILITY expert revealed her top tips for making your fresh produce last longer.
She explained how most people are storing food such as bananas the wrong way.
TikTok user Lottie shared her top food storage tips for fresh produce with her followerstiktok/@lottiedalzielThe TikToker recommended hanging your bananas to prolong their shelf lifetiktok/@lottiedalziel
In her viral video, TikTok user Lottie Dalziel (@lottiedalziel) broke down her top five storage hacks.
She explained why you should avoid keeping your banana bunches in a fruit bowl or on a flat surface.
“They should be hung because they release a gas that ripens fruit and vegetables,” Lottie revealed.
She also advised her audience to keep their onions separate from their other produce.
The expert shared that onions cause other items, such as potatoes, to sprout.
Instead, Lottie recommended keeping your potatoes in a cool dark place.
She also revealed the best place to keep your tomatoes and it’s not in the fridge.
According to the TikToker, simply leaving your tomatoes out in a bowl or on your kitchen counter can prolong their shelf life.
For her next tip, Lottie explained the best way to store your celery and carrots.
She demonstrated how to keep them in a “water bath” rather than in your fridge.
Five expert tips to save money on your supermarket shop
GOOD TIPS
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“[This] helps keep them [stay] nice and crunchy so they don’t go all soft and soggy,” she said.
Finally, she revealed a simple trick for keeping your herbs fresh for longer.
Lottie recommended keeping them in a vase “like a beautiful bunch of flowers.”
She explained that the water makes them last “a lot longer” and prevents them from going “all wilted and soggy.”
The food expert then placed the vase of herbs in the door of her fridge.
What foods should you ALWAYS keep in the fridge?
THE 'King of Bread' Paul Hollywood has said you should never keep bread in the fridge. But what foods SHOULD you store in there?
According to EUFIC, The European Food Information Council, these are some of the main foods you should always ensure are kept in the fridge.
Apples
Berries
Butter
Cheese
Eggs (boiled or unboiled)
Fish (cooked or raw)
Fresh herbs
Lemons
Meat (cooked or raw)
Milk
Oranges
Pickles (if opened)
Salad leaves
Tomatoes
Yoghurts
TikTok users shared their thoughts on the recommendations in the comments section.
“You can also just wrap carrots or lettuce in old newspaper and if they aren’t crisp anymore put them in water for an hour before eating,” suggested one viewer.
“That sounds great, but if my food is in all different places I will forget it exists,” wrote another person.
“I put my unripe fruit next to bananas on purpose,” shared a third follower.
“Citrus stored separately from others as well,” said another commenter.
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