Best way to store fruit

[Roughquest]

Anyone got any tips for storing fresh fruit so it doesnt go off so quickly please? I love my fruit but cant seem to eat it quick enough before i have to throw it away as its gone mouldy or overripe.

Mainly apples, bananas, satsumas, bananas and pears.

TIA
RQ x

[Kim A]

If apples, satsumas and pears are ripe when i buy them, i store them in the fridge until an hour or so before I want to eat them. If they need ripening off, i give them a day or so in the fruit bowl or on a windowsill, then put them in the fridge.

Bananas, i always buy green, then hang them on a hook in the kitchen to ripen slowly away from other fruit. Sometimes, if they're getting a bit too ripe too quickly, they go in the fridge too, but the skins go a bit black. doesn't bother me, but depends on your banana aesthetics, i suppose......

[BBWCHATT]

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[annie0000]

I make mine into a fruit salad - I chop up all the fresh stuff - except bananas - toss into a container that I can seal, either add a tin of fruit in fruit juice - e.g. mandarins, or add a bit of apple or pineapple juice - pop on the lid and put in the fridge - it will last for a good 2-3 days and always gets eaten as it is ready to go. I like to add some banana in once it is in my bowl ready to eat as the banana tends to go mushy in the fruit salad. If it is getting a wee bit too ripe - I add a banana and milk and blend it into a smoothie - great!

[annie0000]

p.s. fresh pineapple is a good addition.

[filthiestfis]

Basically you ain't eating your fruit quickly enough!

[yummum]

not that i watch these progs all the time but was flicking through sky shopping channels the other day and you can buy these bags called 'farmers bags'! they're meant to prolong the life of your fruit and veggies!

[Roughquest]

Excellent answers thanks all - the fruit salad idea is a good one annie as I can take it to work with me ! i LOVE MY FRUIT ! x x

[Solarjunkie]

When it's gone a bit soft, remove any actually mouldy bits, peel, chop and make a smoothie.
I have just done this and had a delicious mixture of apple, satsuma, melon, kiwi, strawberry and nectarine. All made in the liquidiser using fruit that did not look appetising in the fruitbowl. Wish I'd known about them years ago!

[legend759]

store in a vacuum.
you get containers for fruit which connect to a small pump.
like those bags for storing clothes in.when you suck all the air out the fruit doesnt oxidise and stayss fresh for a much longer time.
thers also a fruit box with built in pump.
put fruit in it close lid flick switch.
air is extracted fruit stays fresh
heres a link to some other vacuum methods

http://search.ebay.co.uk/food-vacuum_W0QQfcclZ 1QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1