{"id":548166,"date":"2010-04-30T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecomii_healthy_living\/97\/make-your-greens-last-longer.html"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:25:39","slug":"make-your-greens-last-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548166","title":{"rendered":"Make your greens last longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\" style=\"float:right;padding-left:8px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lettuce\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecomii_simpleliving\/greens.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>To be lean, eat lots of greens and follow these tips for keeping them  fresh and spending less of your \u201cgreen\u201d on them.<\/p>\n<h3>At the market:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For loose greens: Put your hand down into the      plastic bag and<br \/>\nthen grab the greens with it.\u00a0 Pull the bag from the top down over the<br \/>\ngreens and      release your hand. It\u2019s a quicker, drier way to get wet<br \/>\n or over-sized bunches of greens into the bag.<\/li>\n<li>For prepackaged greens or salad:\u00a0 Choose  greens packaged in a<br \/>\nplastic clamshell container as they last much  longer if purchased in<br \/>\nthese      than in the bags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>When you get home:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a second to remove the twist-tie from      your bunches of  greens when you bring them home to prevent damage and      aging caused  by the metal wire.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s worthwhile to rinse the greens, shake      them to remove some  of the moisture, and then roll them in a clean cotton      dishtowel or a  clean cotton pillowcase.\u00a0 The fabric will become damp, which is good.\u00a0  Put this rolled setup into the      vegetable crisper for quick and  easy, access to prepped greens.\u00a0 This will extend the freshness for       many days.<\/li>\n<li>If you purchase a single or multi-pack of      romaine lettuce,  break off the core at the bottom of each head, wash the      leaves, and  put them into a white cotton pillowcase and into the      crisper.\u00a0\u00a0  Again, damp is      good.\u00a0 This works for any      lettuce, but you will  be amazed by how the flavor of romaine improves when      stored this  way.<\/li>\n<li>To extend the life of salad greens in plastic      clamshell  containers, add a dry paper towel to the greens to absorb the moisture, which collects over       time inside the container. I      usually put the towel  at the top because that\u2019s where the<br \/>\ncondensation tends to      form, but  sometimes the greens begin to go<br \/>\nsoggy toward the bottom, and      I\u2019ll  add a fresh one there.<\/li>\n<li>Recycle large plastic clamshell containers      within your kitchen.  They are perfect for storing prepackaged salad      greens. The greens  will last days longer in hard containers like this or      in any glass  or hard plastic container than they will in plastic bags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>For meals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare crisp salads with simple dressings      such as, lemon juice<br \/>\n  and olive oil, or use large leaves of chard to wrap up      healthful<br \/>\n fillings instead of tortillas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adios soggy, spoiled greens!<\/p>\n<p><em>Sherry Brooks is a healthy, happy and trim \u201cfrugalista\u201d living the  lean and green life near Malibu in sunny southern California.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>More from ecomii:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomii.com\/natural-health\/vitamins-supplements\" >Learn more about the potential of nutritional      supplements <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomii.com\/headache\/prescription\" >Find   natural remedies      for headaches<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomii.com\/alternative-medicine\/aromatherapy\" >Does      aromatherapy actually work? <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomii.com\/dictionary\/carbon-footprint\" >What       is your carbon footprint? <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecomii.com\/ecopedia\/cap-and-trade\" >What       is a cap and trade system and how will it    affect you?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be lean, eat lots of greens and follow these tips for keeping them fresh and spending less of your \u201cgreen\u201d on them. At the market: For loose greens: Put your hand down into the plastic bag and then grab the greens with it.\u00a0 Pull the bag from the top down over the greens and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}