[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

No doubt the produce man has you targeted for fast-ripening produce! (You are probably in some special alert file the produce manager maintains who knows when you shop!)

I get the bags of little avocados. I separate mine into dark and about to be ripe and really green and hard. The green ones go into the refrigerator cooler where they can store for about 7 days without ripening and bring them out as I use up the ones on the counter. (I remember my first avocado in the early 1960s. Mother had never seen one, it was still a novelty. Resinous, hard, and still attached to the seed. Let the next one ripen with a better result.)

I put cilantro and asparagus and parsley in the refrigerator in an empty cottage cheese container with some water in the bottom and put the thin plastic produce bag over them and its keeps them fresh longer than if I just left them to rot in the bag in the produce cooler.

[Jane Long]

I do the same, with new avocados.