Posted on 07/26/2020 12:26:22 PM PDT by Dacula
I’ve got the opposite take. I watched a guy in the local store pick up a bunch of cilantro (I think) and stick his nose right in it to smell. I watch people poking and prodding and it gives me the eebie heebie. I buy most of mine prepackaged.
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It’s ALWAYS these bagged salad things. Sometimes I think about buying one, and then I just say: No.
“...A lot of these are the “organic” labels of these stores...I guess maybe a little too organic?”
It also seems to be the case, whenever there’s an article about someone finding a frog (whether alive or dead and/or in pieces) in one of those bagged salads. :P
I get them sometimes because they are quick and easy to pack for lunch. Other times I buy them to feed my chickens.
Not doing any of that anymore.
I am from a farm upbringing and one of the joys was waiting for summer to build your own fresh salad,probaly just as much fun as in 1931,what ever that year has to do with anything
That iceberg lettuce and cabbage etc. was bagged a month ago and it’s still around in stores? If it had that kind a date on it I wouldn’t buy it in the first place.
Yea seen that too - small children handling the produce - I always wash mine. When I was much younger I picked peas and other produce - guys would pee on them in the plant. So nothing is ‘safe’ - just like the rest of life. People germs and bacteria can be washed off or boiled away - bagged parasites and salmonella not so much.
I work 5 to 5, five days a week sometimes 6 days. I have to rise at 3 am to get to work on time. I still buy fresh produce.
Laziness has nothing to with it for me. I live alone, and don’t eat salad that often, so buying a head of lettuce along with the other vegetables (carrots, red cabbage, celery, etc.) to make a salad gets costly, and it goes bad in the icebox. I like buffalo chicken salad with blue cheese dressing. I make it from a bag of iceberg salad that has carrots and red cabbage in it. I add the celery myself. That’s a whole meal for me, but I don’t want it every day, so there’s no sense in buying all the fixings, and letting it rot in my fridge.
yuk
...food to rot in my fridge, better to get a bag...
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Moisture causes the rot. Plus, I suspect the bagged produce is made from older heads of greens.
When you bring a full head of lettuce or other greens home, do not wash. Take it out of the bag and wrap with paper towels to absorb excess moisture. I then place in a Debbie Mayer Green Bag (and I have used cheaper ones, but the DM bags can be rinsed and reused until they tear. I have used some for 2 years). If you absolutely do not believe ethylene causes rot through quicker ripening, you can also use a regular plastic bag. Just don’t totally seal the bags and leave a little opening for air circulation.
I use individual leaves as needed and wash those well, then re-wrap and store the remainder. I have had leaf lettuce last 5 weeks (or longer if I forgot a small heart of the head in the back of the bin).
I do the same with peppers: cut off what I need, wash well, re-wrap the rest and use as needed. Uncut wrapped peppers will last for 3-4 weeks and cut portions about the same or a little less. If edges soften, cut them off. The remainder is usually fine.
You will also avoid ‘rust’ on cut iceberg with this method.
For cabbage, the problem, no matter what, is cutting the head. The exposed edges will oxidize. My solution is to simply shave those off the next time I need to cut some off. I don’t find shredding individual cabbage leaves works very well, although you can simply roll them up and chop into the form of thin ribbons.
Fruit is stored with a paper towel, rinsed as used. I have had grapes last a month or more and even ripe cherries or strawberries keep for over a week. If you use part of an apple, wrap the remainder and when you need it, shave off the outside, slightly brown edge.
I let the paper towels that are wet from the moisture in the produce dry and then store them for use in picking up floor messes or doing other dirty work that doesn’t require a clean towel.
All the bags mentioned can rinsed or even washed with soap and hot water and dried over a cup or glass dryer stand. A friend clothespins hers to a small line in her kitchen.
I have had nearly zero food rot with these methods and we are only two old people who eat less now that we’re older.
I save on produce, bags and even towels by doing the above.
Recalled products were distributed to select retail stores between June 6 and June 26 in various states including, for example, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Not just the states mentioned in the original article. I'm not sure if the additional states are now safe, but I thought I'd pass this along.
I live alone and eat a salad of many variieties,including raw Broccoli Cali Cukes Raw Zuccini and all else pretty much daily. I also thaw frozen and eat it un cooked.
I told you salad is bullshiite.
If only those heads of lettuce had worn their masks and kept their distance.
“What is so difficult about making your own salad fresh daily. Peeps are so frigen lazy”
Maybe, but if you get home after 8 at night, are tired, still have stuff to do on your computer, and you hope to get 6 hours sleep, conveniences like pre-washed salad are appreciated.
It seems that this happens at least once a year. I don’t know why anyone would still buy the stuff.
Thank you!
“Avoid food or water that may have been contaminated with feces.”
Advice that never goes out of style...
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