How to preserve foods longer and save money

Healthy eating is always depends on what we eat and what quality of these products. It is estimated that the average person in Europe and North America throws up to 100 kg of each product year just because of the fact that they have deteriorated or have become little attractive due to improper storage refrigerators. I am confident that this figure for our countries, especially the big cities, though different, is not much.

People go to the store, carefully chosen favorite foods, pay at the cash register, and then after a while throw it in the trash. Madness, is not it? This is not only a waste of your money, but also a waste of natural resources, human labor, which is grown, processed, packaged. Although it is not difficult to take steps to, if not completely avoid premature spoilage, or at least reduce such situations to a minimum. With some of them we want to introduce you.

Milk products

If you bought a fair amount of cheese, then you can be useful to know how to keep it a little longer without changing the taste. Cheese does not like sudden temperature changes, so do not keep it on the top shelf of the refrigerator, and at the bottom, perhaps even in the vegetable compartment. This product it is necessary to properly wrap, as it can easily be fed with other scents or dry. Try to wrap it in a moist gauze and then packaged in film or wrap it in waxed paper and then a layer of aluminum foil.

The milk and cream for longer storage, you can add a pinch of salt and oil to preserve freshness better freeze.

Do not store apples in the refrigerator

Such a rule may seem illogical, but is under a good reason: apples emit ethylene gas, which promotes deterioration of other foodstuffs stored nearby. Remove the apples from plastic bags and store them in a paper in a cool, dry place. If you have a cold cellar or closet, you can pour layers of fine sand. One can take a box or a wooden barrel, cover the bottom layer of sand, then put a layer of apples, again cover them with sand and so on. Thus, you can save quite apples fresh for several months.

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Avoid plastic

We have already written once about life without plastic. Plastic bags are not only harmful to the global environment, but also harmful for some of your products. They completely isolate them from the environment by not allowing existing within the moisture to evaporate. If you place packed in polyethylene fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator, then they have temperature differences of condensation, which contributes to the rapid decay. Sausage, cheese and fish is also not necessary to be stored in polyethylene. It is better to wrap them in parchment paper, which preserves the taste and smell of food, but do not miss the fat. Cottage cheese or sour cream is better to shift into a glass or enamel container.

freeze

If you have not calculated their strength and bought too many products that can not accurately be used to their death, put them in the freezer. There are totally insignificant list of products which do not tolerate frost, and even though as a result of you you may have to use them a little differently than originally planned, at least you do not throw.

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Do not forget to write the date on the package the package and try to use them within 6 months from now. For frozen banana peel them, and then wrap them individually in plastic or aluminum foil. Then you can use them in baking or cocktails. Tomatoes can also be stored in the freezer, but when defrosting, place them in a container, as they are fully crawl under it. But they can be conveniently used for sauces and stews.

Glass

Have you noticed that dry foods such as cereals, nuts, pasta, too, can become corrupted by, especially if you leave them in the closet for too long a period? This occurs even if you keep them in their original packaging. The fact that these products perfectly absorb moisture, which is so much in any kitchen. Every time we boil the kettle or something to cook, the water molecules are distributed on the premises and are absorbed by the dry products.

Glass containers with tight-fitting lid is ideal to prevent the ingress of moisture wherever it is needed. For long-term storage of bulk products, in their pour the glass container and store in a dry place away from the plate and the shell.