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I Wish I Knew How to LOSE You--The Weight Loss Thread (check first post)
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 08, 2010, 11:45:17 am ---Tell you what, I find that greens keep for weeks for me in a good, old-fashioned Tupperware crisper!
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Really? I usually keep my lettuce in a salad spinner (which doubles as a crisper) and I find it tends to start getting slimmy or wilty within a week. I'm really picky about lettuce though... once I start finding leaves that have gone bad I tend to get turned off from the whole batch.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: atz75 on January 08, 2010, 12:14:06 pm ---Really? I usually keep my lettuce in a salad spinner (which doubles as a crisper) and I find it tends to start getting slimmy or wilty within a week. I'm really picky about lettuce though... once I start finding leaves that have gone bad I tend to get turned off from the whole batch.
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I've never had a salad spinner. Are they intended to be used for storage? I suspect that nothing keeps food fresh like good ol' Tupperware! :laugh:
With any type of green that forms a "head," if you throw the whole thing out when the outer leaves start to get icky, you miss the best, tastiest part, the "heart."
serious crayons:
I wash the lettuce, spin it, let it air dry, then put it in a container -- not Tupperware but probably similar -- that pushes out all the air. It lasts for maybe a week.
I haven't tried those kind with the roots, but I've tried the basil one, and it's great. Especially if you put the roots in water or dirt.
Front-Ranger:
I occasionally have problems with lettuce too, but I have a compost bin AND a couple of chickens, so that takes care of that! Plus, I don't eat as much lettuce in the winter as I do in summer, when I can pick it out of my garden. Let me know if you need any arugula seeds, Kathryn!!
Okay, I finally got my benchmark weight established and started my notebook. Thanks again for starting this thread Paul.
I also decided to start Lent a little early like I did last year. I'm giving up the same thing as last year too...no more alcohol until April 4, Easter. I hope this works because otherwise it's going to be very difficult for me to lose 10 lbs. One time I hiked 17 miles in one day and only lost a half a pound!!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 08, 2010, 03:23:54 pm ---I don't eat as much lettuce in the winter as I do in summer, when I can pick it out of my garden.
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Lettuce right out of the garden is definitely best (same goes for tomatoes, perhaps even more so!). I had some at my dad's last summer. Still on an ordinary week day, I eat salad twice a day, year in, year out.
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