Storing your veg |
| Posted on Apr 02 2009 at 10:19 AM |
Here are a few tips from a previous newsletter about storing your veg:
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Collect your box on time to maintain the nutritional freshness and when you get it home take five minutes to prepare the vegetables for your fridge.
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Save and use the paper bags the potatoes come in to put other root crops in and put them in the fridge.
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Do NOT wash any of the root crops until just before you want to use them – we leave the soil on them deliberately as it helps keep the root fresher.
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Re-use polythene bags to put any leafy crops into and seal over the tops with a clothes peg and place in the fridge. Aim to use the most perishable crops first – salad rocket is perhaps the crop we grow which has the shortest shelf-life.
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If you know you are going to be eating out a lot any one week, consider spending ten minutes (yes, really, that is all the time it takes if you boil a kettle first) blanching green vegetables and freezing to be able to use later on having retained maximum nutrient value.
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If we suggest eating the pods, for example of tender smaller broad beans, or the leaves of beetroots, then DO be brave and try this, we wouldn’t say you could eat it if you couldn’t.
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Most of the vegetables are fabulous eaten cold the following day if you find you’ve cooked too much, or very quickly re-heated chopped into a frying pan.