Grocery stores place essential ingredients”like dairy and produce”on opposite ends of the store so that you’re forced to pass through all the aisles and buy more stuff you don’t need. Don’t get distracted. Shop the perimeter! Also, always check out the top and bottom shelves ”the eye-level ones stock the priciest stuff.
To store delicate herbs, place them in cups of water, cover them with plastic wrap, secure with a rubber band, and refrigerate. Cilantro and parsley is found to stay crisper for a week or longer. But if you find that you’re never going to use all of that parsley before it starts it wilt, simply place the herbs between two paper towels and microwave for a minute or so to preserve the colour and flavour.
If you use the boxed variety of milk and find that it is about to expire, use it to make milk and coffee/chocolate cubes. Then pour your morning coffee over them for a heavenly and deliciously rich caffeine cocktail.
Find your bunch of bananas getting over ripe faster than you can eat them? Wrap the crown of a bunch of bananas with plastic wrap and they’ll last 3-5 days longer than usual.
