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How to Keep Your Food Fresh for Days? Tips You Can Use with or Without a Fridge

Airtight bags can be used to store vegetables to keep them fresh. Firstly, Beans, drumsticks, long beans and pumpkin could be washed and cut into pieces, putting them altogether in an airtight bag before storing into fridge will protect vegetables and fruits.

Sambhav Kumar
Read this article to learn about some easy steps you can follow to keep your food fresh for days.
Read this article to learn about some easy steps you can follow to keep your food fresh for days.

It is a concern of the majority of people that vegetables lose their freshness days after storing them in the fridge. Here are some tips you can use to keep your food fresh for days be it in a fridge or without it.

  • Airtight bags can be used to store vegetables to keep them fresh. Firstly, Beans, drumsticks, long beans, and pumpkin could be washed and cut into pieces, putting them all together in an airtight bag before storing them in the fridge will protect vegetables.

  • Boil water in a vessel then turn off the flame before adding the cut vegetable, after a minute, transfer the pieces into a bowl of cold water for 5 minutes.

  • Immerse them in cold water for 5 minutes, and transfer the vegetable to a piece of clean cloth, and after the moisture is completely gone, put them in a zip lock bag.

  • Pop the bag in the freezer, lemons too could be stored in zip lock bags in the freezer for more than two months.

Tips to Keep Your Food Cold Without Using a Fridge:

We can also store food without a fridge. All we need to do is to gather some ceramic pots, sand, and water, and you’ve got a portable, non-electric mini-fridge with a time-tested design.

In some parts of the world, this clay pot cooler is called a zeer, and its sustainable, inexpensive design is far from new. People in the Middle East and Africa have long used similar contraptions to keep food from spoiling in hot, dry climates.

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