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One of the most important steps of reducing food waste is to know how to properly store fruits and vegetables. Many times, these are the items that people put in their fridge without washing or caring for and then they wonder why they go bad in just a few days. Taking some time to properly wash and store fruits and vegetables will help you reduce food waste and save money on groceries!
Do you have a fruit bowl? Many people do and enjoy using it as a decorative way to store their fruit. The thing is, a fruit bowl dramatically decreases how long your fruit will last and is not a good way to store fruit. It will cause your fruits to go bad in days, instead of weeks so I encourage you to switch up how you store fruit. Instead of putting all of your fruits in the same bowl, you should store fruit separately.
Apples can last for up to a year from when they are harvested if they are stored in a fridge. If you don’t have space in your fridge, that’s okay! Storing them on the counter will still allow them to last for several months. You should always wash them first using my directions. After they are washed you can store them on their own in a bowl or basket. You also could use a wire basket in the pantry. View the full directions for how to wash apples in this YouTube video.
Bananas will last longer if you store them on a hook. You don’t need to wash them and you want to hang the entire bunch together. Keep bananas away from other fruits because they are sprayed with ethylene which speeds up the ripening process. If you choose organic bananas, they do not have ethylene and they will ripen slower.
Regardless of the type you buy, you still should store them separately. If you find yourself wasting bananas because you don’t eat the whole thing, check out my banana in a mason jar trick! Oranges are another fruit that can last a lot longer than people think. You should wash oranges in 10 cups of water and ¼ cup distilled white vinegar for two minutes. After washing them, you should store them in a bowl on their own or in the fridge in the crisper drawer with lemons and avocados. If you are washing and storing them this way, oranges should stay fresh for several weeks.
Two items that do well being stored together are lemons/oranges and avocados, so I call them produce buddies! After washing them, they should be put in the fridge in the crisper drawer. Your citrus (lemons, oranges, etc.) and avocados can be stored together. This will allow avocados to last for a month and citrus fruits for up to 6 weeks!
The pantry is a great place to store certain vegetables that like to stay in a darker, cooler space. Potatoes and onions can both be stored in the pantry in a wire basket. While you can store them similarly, you need to keep them apart. These are the opposite of produce buddies and they need to be at least 3 feet apart so that they do not cause the other to spoil faster.
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If you want to learn more about taking inventory and creating a well-stocked pantry, I have an entire module on that in my course, The Grocery Solution. This is a self-paced course filled with videos and resources that will help you save money on groceries. You can learn more about it on my website.
There is a full how to store fruits and vegetables chart in my bestselling eBook, I Bought It, Now What?. Along with the directions for washing and storing produce, there is an easy-to-read chart that includes how/when to wash items as well as where to store them (fridge or pantry). You can purchase the eBooks on my website.
I hope that now you understand why you shouldn’t store fruit in a fruit bowl and have some better storage ideas. You can find some of my favorite bowls and food storage items in my Amazon Storefront. If you have other questions on how to store fruits and vegetables feel free to leave a comment on this post.
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A shallow wider fruit bowl is a really good idea!
We all know the feeling when you grab an apple or peach to discover that it’s so soft it barely holds together as you carefully move it to the compost bin… I’m sure there are worse things when it comes to putting people off eating fruit but I bet that one’s high on the list.
Did you know that the gas coming off some fruit (particularly apples and ripe bananas) rapidly speeds up the ripening, and potential over-ripening, of all the other fruit in the fruit bowl!
This can be used to your advantage if you’ve got a bunch of fruit that are under-ripe and you’d like to speed up their ripening. Simply putting some of them in a bowl with one or two apples or ripe bananas will ripen them up in hours or days.
But, more often than not, these gases are the culprits involved with your fruit going from crunchy and yummy to overly soft and squishy.
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