Question

How do you store your cut up celery, carrots, peppers? Thanks in advance for your inputs

Answer 1

Debbie Myer green bags. Stays fresh for over a week. Available on Amazon. The bags Can be washed and reused ten times each.  

Comments

@pitchfork absolutely the best investment!  

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Her containers are great as well! I wash & prep as soon as I get produce in the house. Keeps things fresh for a long time!  

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@lyndes yup. I use those as well. Love them. A few of mine are about 15 years old and still great.  

Answer 2

Cut up celery and carrots in a glass bowl with water in the fridge always right there when you mindlessly open that fridge for a snack.  

Answer 3

Refrigerator crisper, we eat them fast.  

Answer 4

I have frigsmart containers from Tupperware! Specialty made for long lasting veggies !  

Answer 5

They run sales these fridgesmart ! they work like the say they do!  

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@signpost I agree. Money well spent

Answer 6

On HSN they have green boxes by Debbie Meyers. They r wonderful and really do work

Answer 7

I wrap celery in foil. Keeps very well.  

Answer 8

Yes. I prep ahead of time.  

Answer 9

Glass containers with airtight lids - lasts about two weeks

Answer 10

For cauliflower I put it in a bag and cover the white part with a paper towel. When the towel gets moist replace it. Mushrooms take out of the package you buy them in and put them in a brown paper bag and change the bag when it gets moist. I keep bothering of them in the vege drawer.  

Comments

This is the way I do veggies too

Answer 11

Clean cut up and wrap on foil

Answer 12

Instructions for Frige Smart containers! recommend not to pre wash fruits and Vegetables! They will keep longer than if you had wash them! ///:::////::::/// Keep salad fresh ! Cut up Lettuce ! After washed and dried! Place in bowl big enough to hold it all!. A few paper towels wet place over lettuce in bowl! covert to with Saran Wrap Place in frig! Lettuce will stay crisp for couple of days! Will not turn brown ! By the 4th day Repeat re-wet paper towels !  

Answer 13

Thanks to everyone for all of these ways. awesome responses & looking forward to cutting them up & keeping them fresher now. if I've got them pre-cut, I'll eat them more often.  

Answer 14

Foil on both keeps them amazing

Answer 15

Leave seeds in peppers after cut, last a couple of week.  

Answer 16

I clean the veggies right away and store in plastic containers.  

Answer 17

Washed and trimmed Carrots, celery and radishes I store in a glass container with water to keep them fresh

Answer 18

In a ziplock with a piece of paper towel to absorb moisture.  

Answer 19

In cold water keeps them fresh

Answer 20

Green bags, last weeks.  

Answer 21

Tupperware veg/ fruit containers with the vents

Answer 22

I do buy carrot chips, saves a lot of time and they are always ready to grab and eat, but I cut up the other items when I am ready for them.  

Answer 23

I wash, cut, DRY and store in mason jars. OR wrapped in a paper towel in foil. Mason jars, they last 2 weeks or more

Comments

@soften100 I cut everything up and put in a ziplock bag sits on shelf that’s eye level to me first thing I see when opening the fridge

Answer 24

Debbie Meyer Green Bags or Green Boxes.  

Answer 25

Also, if you do a 20 minute vinegar soak. They last much longer. 1/2 cup to a sink of water.  

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@morman won't the veggies absorb the vinegar smell and taste?  

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@harborage surprisingly no. Just for a minute or two.  

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@morman so do you soak it for a few minutes? Or twenty minutes?  

Answer 26

After wash and dry, in baggies or tupperware with paper towel inside with them

Answer 27

Wrap your celery in aluminum foil. lasts a long time. I do not know about carrots and peppers

Answer 28

Container with a little water. I will dump the water and rinse off veggies.  

Answer 29

Cut them up and wrap in paper towels

Answer 30

Celery in aluminum foil. Veggie containers for the others (and blueberries).  

Answer 31

Debbie Meyer green bags are magic

Answer 32

In water

Answer 33

Carrots and celery in mason jars in water and peppers can be stored in balsamic vinegar and water in a mason jar

Answer 34

Has anyone ever frozen celery?  

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@freely it turns to mush. Not pleasant.  

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@recapitulate that’s what I was thinking because of the water in celery.  

Answer 35

Lock n lock containers from QVC. Keeps all veggies fresh for like 2 weeks love them

Answer 36

I store celery in aluminum foil. It stays fresh longer. Don’t know why.  

Answer 37

I bought these from Tupperware. They were pricey (I got them on sale) but they have been worth every penny in produce I no longer waste:  
https://www.tupperware.ca/fridgesma....html

Answer 38

Ziplock bags