{"id":45,"date":"2026-09-02T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/2026\/09\/03\/storing-vegetables-so-they-last-the-week\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:58:13","slug":"storing-vegetables-so-they-last-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/2026\/09\/02\/storing-vegetables-so-they-last-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Storing Vegetables So They Last the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">Half of what gets thrown away was fine when it came home. Where a vegetable is put matters as much as how fresh it was.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Fridge Is Not One Place<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">A fridge has three climates and most people use one of them. The drawer is humid and is where leaves and roots belong; the middle shelf is dry and cold and suits anything already cut; the door is the warmest part and should hold nothing that spoils quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where Things Go<\/h4>\n\n\n<ul style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\t<li><strong>Leaves.<\/strong> Spinach, kale and bok choy last twice as long wrapped loosely in a damp cloth in the drawer than they do in the bag they came in.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Roots.<\/strong> Beetroot and carrots keep for weeks with their tops cut off \u2014 the leaves keep drinking from the root long after they have been pulled.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Tomatoes.<\/strong> On the counter, stem side down, never in the fridge. Cold flattens the flavour within a day and it does not come back.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Mushrooms.<\/strong> Paper bag, not plastic. They breathe, and a sealed bag turns them slimy overnight.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Bananas.<\/strong> Away from everything else. They ripen their neighbours faster than they ripen themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h4 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The One-Shelf Rule<\/h4>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">Keep one shelf for things that need eating this week and put everything you buy on it face out. Waste is rarely a storage failure on its own; it is a visibility failure, and a shelf you can read at a glance fixes most of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of what gets thrown away was fine when it came home. Where a vegetable is put matters as much as how fresh it was. The Fridge Is Not One Place A fridge has three climates and most people use one of them. The drawer is humid and is where leaves and roots belong; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_brandy_post_header_transparent":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_footer_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_blur_background":{"type":"inherit","value":3},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[38,37],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-living","tag-food-waste","tag-kitchen-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/mini-supermarket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}