How do you store vegetables in the refrigerator?

My crisper drawers have a slide-type setting that allows for less/more humidity; we keep fruits - lemons, limes, oranges, apples - in one drawer and veggies - onions, carrots, celery, greens, etc. in the other. I think the recommended setting is for less humidity for veggies, but I'd have to look at the manual to make sure. Anyway, it works pretty good. I wrap celery in foil (a Martha Stewart tip) and it lasts for weeks. I also use the Debbie Meyer green bags, which work great!

There are 2 of us in our household. We buy what we would need for the next 24-32 hours. Cut up what we will use, tin-foil the rest and use he next day. I have learnt over time not to bother with trying to store fruit or veg for any length of time....I don't care how many disagree with me or state that you can draw out the life of a melon for 63 years by doing X,Y or Z. Does. Not. Go. Well. For. Me.

To me, baskets on shelves = putrefied mess to clear up when the smell gets too bad!

Uncut onions don't go in the fridge....

I have a series of "keepers" that I love.







All other greens, like spinach, zuchinni, lettuce, as well as berries and melons go in these:



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Mine do.

No, actually, and they're usually around for a couple of weeks or so. I know they're not supposed to be stored in the fridge, but if I don't and just keep them in the cool basement, they sprout and go bad too quickly. Weird.

I have several different containers I store stuff in, Tupperware vegetable containers, Rubbermaid vegetable containers and then the Debbie Meyer green containers. They all work really well.

We have a produce stand very near our house. I shop for veggies as I need them. DH stops on way home from work. The guys knows us very well by now and always sends an apples or plums for my kids. We buy fruit too and he has yummy chutney and canned stuff his wife makes.

My DHs sister and her husband own a produce stand across town. We go there on weekends sometimes as they have the best boiled punts in town. I always feel bad because they never charge us (we try to pay) and it feels weird to "shop there" on a regular basis. We buy a lot of fruit and tons of veggies. Probably $100 a week.

I put cut onions in a wide mouth glass jar with a screw top lid and store in the fridge. I've not had a problem with them going soft or with onion odor

yep, cold onions are less irritating to my eyes.

I store some of ours in the crisper drawer but fruits for snacking are kept in an acrylic container without a lid on one of the shelves. It works great to hold grapes, apples etc. you can get the containers in various sizes at the Container Store. Also some stores sell plastic baskets with handles on them that would work great. You can also use a dry erase marker to label the containers that way you can just wipe it off if what is in the container changes.

I struggle with using the actual produce that I buy. It's all jammed into the bottom 2 drawers, unorganized and difficult to sort through. I'm considering using some type of containers and putting them in the middle shelf of the fridge.

The only tip I have to offer is for romaine lettuce. I put it in a tupperware and line the bottom with a wet paper towel then put another wet paper towel over the lettuce and then close it. It will last quite a while without wilting!

Meg don't they take up a lot of room in the crisper drawers? We buy a LOT of fruit & veg and it's all I can do to squeeze everything into 2 drawers in just the bags they came in (ie the plastic supermarket bags that I use when taking them off the shelves). If I used those tupperware things I'm thinking I couldn't fit the same amount of stuff in the drawers? Or do you put several different things into each one?

Ahhh - now I see!  Thanks