HOW TO MAKE YOUR GROCERIES LAST LONGER.

MAKE YOUR GROCERIES LAST LONGER.

With inflation driving the prices of food it is now mandatory to think of ways to spend less and save money. 

One way you can save money as a wife and household manager is buying groceries in bulk especially in seasons that there is surplus.

 

However, there is a problem..

Alot of fresh food items gets bad easily for example,

fresh vegetables like tomatoes , huckleberry, and even dry food stuffs like your garri, crayfish, beans, are not fry from getting spoilt.

That is why in today's blog, I will be listing down some preservation hacks so that your food items can stay for a long time.

It's not just about buying them and bringing back home but it's making them serve us long that counts...so here are my tips

Tips to make your groceries last longer.

1) Keep fresh food items in a deep freezer

If you don't have a deep freezer, then i advise you get your hands on one or at least a 2 compactment fridge with a big freezer.

Thinks like fresh fish, meat, pork, wash them and keep in a deep.

With vegetables like hukleberry, bitter leaf, cut, slice and boil them and then put in your freezer.

Tomatoes, pepper, you can make pastes out this veges and keep in your freezer to use gently since fresh gets rotten quickly.

Food stuff like plantain, you can keep in a freeze to slow down the ripening process.

2) Sundry before keeping

Food items like sweet and Irish potatoes, cocoyams, ensure you spread them out on a floor and sundry them often 

Another food items good to sundry out are fresh pepper, okra, crayfish, and you can use them whenever u want. 

3) Use ziplock bags.

you keep freshly chopped vegetables inside air free ziplock bags. chop ur vegetables and suck out the air inside to make the bag air free. 

4) Use air tight containers.

This method is perfect for storing dry food like garri, corn, beans, rice, to avoid it being infected by weevils.

with food items like egusi, and groundnut, you can fry (g-nut) and grind dem before storing in air tight containers. it can last you for more than 1yr.

MUST-HAVE STORAGE EQUIPMENTS.

1) Buy a deep freezer or fridge with bigger freezer.

2) Buy zeeplock bags

3) air tight containers.