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I have a lemon tree in my yard that produces a lot of fruit. I use them in iced tea and lemonade, and sometimes on seafood. I give a lot away too! I don't have an orange tree, so when I go to the store I only buy one or two. The bags have way too many and usually the worst quality ones.
I live in Southern California and buy oranges from the local farmer's market. Right now navel oranges are NOT in season. If you are buying navels, they are either old oranges that were in storage, or they came a long way from another country.
Either look for Valencia oranges (they are hard to peel and usually used for juice, but tasty and in season right now), or switch to some other fruit until the new season starts for navels (around November).
In any case, oranges and other citrus will last longer in the refrigerator than out on the counter.
Haven't noticed the high cost too much but that may have been due to the trade off. Apples, oranges, and bananas are my take to work food, that's my 3rd or 4th meal of the day. Further, since I don't eat processed food, I tend to make out like a bandit at the grocery.....except when it comes to cat food.
Apples and bananas that go bad usually head for the trash. I have yet to figure out what to do with them. Citrus can be used in stews.
^^^Banana bread. You can peel overripe bananas & freeze them in a freezer bag to use in future banana breads. They look strange when thawed (goop) but still make great banana bread.
Use older apples to make crockpot applesauce..cut into big chunks, peeling them is not necessary. Add cinnamon, possibly a little nutmeg to taste. Extra sugar is probably not necessary. Add a little liquid...water or even orange or cranberry juice. Cook in crockpot until it's of the consistency that you prefer.
Haven't noticed the high cost too much but that may have been due to the trade off. Apples, oranges, and bananas are my take to work food, that's my 3rd or 4th meal of the day. Further, since I don't eat processed food, I tend to make out like a bandit at the grocery.....except when it comes to cat food.
Apples and bananas that go bad usually head for the trash. I have yet to figure out what to do with them. Citrus can be used in stews.
Keep all my produce in the fridge.
Never put bananas or avocados in the refrigerator. It will make them go bad very quickly.
^^^Banana bread. You can peel overripe bananas & freeze them in a freezer bag to use in future banana breads. They look strange when thawed (goop) but still make great banana bread.
Use older apples to make crockpot applesauce..cut into big chunks, peeling them is not necessary. Add cinnamon, possibly a little nutmeg to taste. Extra sugar is probably not necessary. Add a little liquid...water or even orange or cranberry juice. Cook in crockpot until it's of the consistency that you prefer.
Actually, that's rather why the last bunch went to waste.
I had bought them to use them for banana bread...........and then forgot about them for days, so when I got back to them, they were very, very dark on the outside.
Crockpots have an interesting history with me. Mom gave me one, perhaps a hand me down, to do with what everyone does with them, cook the meals why one is away at work. For whatever reason, it never got used and I don't think it made it out of the apartments in the move.
Given what wiki says, that they work well with solar power, I am tempted to try again in the new house except that despite what they say, I am very wary of leaving anything cooking when I am away from the house.
There may be other applications, though, for I am one to cook a beef stew, put it in the fridge, and have that for meals through the week. So might be the story with produce.
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Originally Posted by Steve McDonald
Never put bananas or avocados in the refrigerator. It will make them go bad very quickly.
I haven't found that to be much of the case given that they get consumed rather rapidly around my place. I try to have half an avocado a day, for instance. Granted, as I said, the banana bunch before last did go to waste...but this last one didn't..........................but I suppose I can give it a try.
When I buy a bag of citrus, I sort through them as soon as I get home and I throw out any that are showing the beginning signs of mold. It's usually cheaper to buy them by the bag than individually.
I store grapefruit in the fridge if I'm not going to use them quickly. I think I've done that with oranges before and it helped them last longer.
You can also fill the sink with a dilute bleach solution and give them a wash in there.
At least one orange per bag, often more than one, goes "bad" within a week of purchase..
How long does it take to eat an orange?
If one goes bad in a week, buy a smaller bag that you can finish in less than a week.
If your criteria for food purchase is lasting more than a week, I hope you are not buying meat or fish.
Milk would be iffy.
Certainly don't buy lettuce.
Berries would be out also.
You must have an interesting diet of mostly canned and frozen food.
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