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Got a 10 lb. bag of oranges at Sams Club for $7.98 last week and juiced them within 3 days. They did well , there was only one that had a bad spot and it was small so I cut it out. Wife bought me a Kitchen Aid juicer attachment a couple years ago and we consider that our splurge when we buy the oranges for juicing .
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.
One orange a day, along with two apples, one or two pears, a bunch of seedless red grapes, and when in season, local peaches or nectarines.
I'm a descendant of Koko the Gorilla.
NO MEAT in the past 30 years.
No lettuce but lots of cabbage, tomatoes, and mushrooms. All kept refrigerated.
Lots of frozen broccoli nuked in a microwave. Lots of kidney beans and brown rice, small amt. of fish.
One pizza per year.
8-12 alcoholic drinks per week.
Lots of salty snacks to build up low blood sodium.
3 lb. bags that were $3.99 a year ago are now $5.99. But that's not the worst of it. At least one orange per bag, often more than one, goes "bad" within a week of purchase. By "bad" I mean a powdery, stinky, greenish-gray .... mold. (Just guessing that it's a mold.) Doesn't matter if they're juice oranges, navels, temples, you name it. And it's not confined to just one grocery store but at both of the stores I patronize.
One thing I admit that I haven't checked, but should have, is the State(s) in which they were grown.
Nevertheless, oranges, you are history.
Oranges are at their best from about Christmas until late March. They are a winter fruit. Most likely ones yo are getting now are older or have been imported from God only knows where. If I want oranges this time of year I buy them one or two at a time, not a bag of them.
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.
Yes, stored in the fridge they last for weeks. Our daughter sends us a box of oranges and grapefruit every winter from Florida plus I usually buy a bag or two of Naval oranges in Jan or Feb. They will last weeks in the fridge. I mean literally weeks. Being born and raised in So. Cal. with a backyard of Naval orange trees , they are still one of my favorite fruits.
Being born and raised in So. Cal. with a backyard of Naval orange trees , they are still one of my favorite fruits.
Same for me, except they were Valencia oranges and they're no longer a favorite! We had fresh orange juice for breakfast every single morning, and yes, we had to drink it before we left the table. Maybe that's why I developed a mild dislike for it, and never ever drink it any more.
. Being born and raised in So. Cal. with a backyard of Naval orange trees , they are still one of my favorite fruits.
I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Mountain View. There was this huge lemon tree in the backyard. Funniest thing, that's my sharpest memory of the house (which was a really cool Mission style).
Florida is not shipping fresh picked fruit at this time. Valencias are gone. Some early grapefruit in late September. Groves are dying off in FL. Brace for the impact if you like fruit. I pass by groves weekly that are all but dead. What used to be a prime area to grow Indian River fruit has lost more groves than most maybe. Even groves on the higher ridge area are dying. Resets are dying young before they even can set a major crop. Land is going into blueberries in many places.
I switched to the Sunkists lately. Or were they the same things as the ordinary oranges?
EDIT: The Sunkists were very sore yet fragranent imported fruits from the U.S.A.. And the ordinary oranges here were small greenish sometimes sweet balls.
Florida is not shipping fresh picked fruit at this time. Valencias are gone. Some early grapefruit in late September. Groves are dying off in FL. Brace for the impact if you like fruit. I pass by groves weekly that are all but dead. What used to be a prime area to grow Indian River fruit has lost more groves than most maybe. Even groves on the higher ridge area are dying. Resets are dying young before they even can set a major crop. Land is going into blueberries in many places.
Do you know why?
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