How to store your fresh fruits and vegetables

I am so tired of wasting produce.  I feel like I knock myself out couponing and budgeting to get the best deals on produce, and then spend a ton of time preparing and cooking them, and boom, just like that, it's a week or two weeks later, and I'm throwing out my hard work into the trash bin.  I estimate that I probably waste about 25% of my produce purchases, and that's just too much.

Passover was the straw that broke the camel's back.  We eat a ton of produce over Pesach, because most produce (kitniyos excepted) is naturally kosher for Passover and doesn't become more pricey as the Passover season approaches.  But my overstuffed refrigerator became a Petri dish of wilted and spoiled produce as the holiday advanced, and I'm convinced that much of it was because I didn't store things properly.  So, new item on the resolution list for this year:   WASTE LESS PRODUCE.

Here's an excellent article from Vegetarian Times on how to properly store your fruits and vegetables.  For me, this is going to be step one.

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