We delayed our shopping trip by a day, and the amount was about 75% of normal. So the food inventory is working, I guess! I also bought some pasta so we're now stocked for pasta until mid-December (we eat a pasta dish once a week).
Today F and I went downtown to have a mother-daughter day... we parked in the office, and walked about half a block to our favorite place for lemonades, and then had a picnic in Cathedral Park (next to our beautiful cathedral). I brought her a burrito and a sandwich for me, plus some tortilla chips, salsa, pickles and a nectarine. I keep a picnic blanket in the office.
There are tons of art booths downtown right now, and we wandered around a bit, talking, hanging out.
Tonight we're going over to some friends' for dinner. I'm bringing potatoes dauphinoise (they asked for a carb-y side dish).
When I was doing our food inventory yesterday I was thinking about food storage. We hardly ever have food waste, and it's partly because I've worked out how to store a lot of perishable foods.
avocados - I leave them on the counter to ripen, then put them in the fridge so they don't continue to ripen after they're already ripe!
lettuce or cilantro or spinach - I wrap with kitchen roll to absorb moisture from the "rain" in the vegetable aisle.
cheese - I put a piece of kitchen roll in there, too, once it's opened
bananas - I wrap stems with plastic wrap
flour tortillas - I keep these in the freezer and just take out one at a time; they last forever this way; we only use 2 or so a week.
herbs - I store leftover fresh herbs in ice cubes in the freezer
butter - I keep baking butter in the freezer and spreading butter in the fridge
bread - we keep our bread in the fridge (and extra loaves in the freezer)
Things I'm still not sure about: strawberries, applesauce (once it's opened it gets mold so fast; can you freeze it?). Any tips? Any other food storage ideas I haven't mentioned?
Picnic Downtown and Food Storage
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For strawberries, I think I've tried rinsing with some vinegar in the water;however, I only read that this year and tried it this summer, so I'm not sure if it works yet.
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