How-to Properly Store Summer Fruits and Veggies
I love growing our own fruits and vegetables to enjoy fresh through the summer months and can for the winter months. Sometimes our favorite fruits and veggies go bad before we ever get to enjoy them. Terra’s Kitchen is sharing the best way to store some of your favorite fruits and veggies.
To store in the fridge:
- Bell Peppers: Refrigerate loose in the fridge.
- Berries: Either eat them the day you get them, or you must refrigerate, as they are highly perishable.
- Eggplant: Store loose in the produce drawer of the refrigerator and branch out and try all of the amazing sizes and colors. If you are not a lover of this nightshade, we are sorry for what you are missing!!
- Sweet Corn: Refrigerate in their husk until ready to use and keep in mind that should be sooner than later as the sugars begin to turn to starch as soon as they are picked.
To store on the counter:
- Apricots: No matter how strong is the urge to refrigerate these beauties, store unripe on the counter or windowsill at room temperature.
- Garlic: Do not refrigerate and keep them on the counter or in a basket alongside your onions.
- Mushrooms: They are full of water and need to breathe, so store in the original packaging, or if in a cluster, in a brown paper bag. If only using a portion of them rewrap the top in plastic wrap or keep in bag.
- Onions: Keep them dry in a basket on the counter.
- Cherry Tomatoes: Tomatoes should never be refrigerated as it spoils their unique individual flavor. Keep on the counter until ripe and then use in rapid abandonment once they are.
Do you have any suggestions on how to properly store summer fruits and veggies? If so, please comment and share below!
M.Clark says
These are great tips for storing summer fruits and veggies. I did not know that cherry tomatoes should not be refrigerated. Thank you for sharing these tips.
Jerry Marquardt says
I thank you for your nice tips and pointers to try to help us keep our fruit and veggies fresh. I appreciate this so much and I think that your followers all look forward to your next articles on your blog.
Margarida Silva says
Those are great tips, thank you, i’ve learned a lot!!