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How do you stop lettuce going manky in the fridge? I'm sure someone out there will have found a way ... :D

 

I really love a bit of salad on my lunchtime wraps at this time of year, but the iceberg lettuce keeps going brown and slimy :vom: before I can eat it all and I hate wasting food. (Yes, I do know I have two little feathery dustbins that would help me get through it quicker and end the waste problem :roll:!)

 

Many thanks in advance.

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I cut up my lettuce and wash it in one of those cetrifuge thingies and just store it in that. I mostly use little heads of Romana lettuce (Lidl) or the leafy lettuce kind. Both keep better than iceberg. (And have more flavour in my opinion)

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I have home grown lettuce at the moment and it is covered in sandy soil from the heavy rain. I have been separating it into leaves and washing it well, spinning it in my large salad spinner then packing it into a Tupperware box lined with kitchen roll and wrapping the kitchen roll over the top as well before putting the lid on. It keeps for ages like this.

I find wrapping any lettuce in kitchen roll then plastic helps to stop it going slimy, seems to keep the right moisture level. This works with fresh herbs too.

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We home grow ours too - wash it, spin it in our ageing salad spinner to dry it, place it in a ziplock bag (the freezer ready kind), with as much air out as possible before sealing, then into the *bottom* of the fridge where it's coldest. Works perfectly and even crisps up the limp leaves picked at the wrong time of day :)

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I buy the living ones and keep them on the windowsill. They're more expensive to start with but as long as you remember to water them they last for ages.

 

We also have the living ones - but they are not for human consumption - the cat decided he loved to eat them every day a little so it is bought for him and we eat the iceberg in the fridge. Cutting the iceberg with a plastic knife stops the brown.

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