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Woman shares simple hack to keeping lettuce fresh for MONTHS
Have you opened a package of lettuce only to find your greens moldy and limp rather than crunchy? Lettuce help with that.
A TikTok user known for her budget-saving hacks has shared her incredible trick to keeping the leafy vegetable crisp for months.
In a now-viral video, the creator claimed her head of romaine lettuce was still fresh and ready to use a whole month after its recommended use-by date.
The woman, who posted the video at the end of May, explained that she had purchased the lettuce at the end of March.
'To prove it to you, the best before date is April 25,' she shared.
'Here's how I've been keeping it fresh for so long,' she continued, before pulling the greens out of the plastic bag it came in to show the camera.
She then showed the head of romaine lettuce to the camera, revealing that she had covered the end of it in a damp paper towel.
'I put a little napkin or paper towel, damp, just on the end,' she explained.
She claimed that just under a whopping two months later, she has to peel off the outer layer of the lettuce but insisted that everything under that is perfectly fine to eat.
'This is a perfect head of lettuce after two months,' she said triumphantly, adding in a comment that she checks the paper towel and re-dampens it when she needs to.
Users loved the money and food saving hack, sharing their thoughts in the comment section.
'This is so smart oh my god, I live alone and can never finish it before it goes bad. I needed this video holy cow,' one user gushed.
'I do the same thing! GAME CHANGER! It's crazy but so simple. Treat the plants in your fridge as plants, they want to be watered,' agreed someone else.
Another joked: 'That same lettuce goes bad in four days in my fridge.'
It's not the first time a food professional has shared their tricks to preserving food.
Previously, a chef shared a series of genius food hacks which she said could save you $1,000 a year in food waste – including using cheese rinds in soup and not peeling carrots.
Users loved the money and food saving trick, sharing their thoughts in the comment section
Massachusetts-based Alison Mountford said food is the 'biggest expense' as restauranteur so would make sure it was all used up
Alison's top tip was to meal plan and use up the food you already have in your cupboard before buying more.
She encouraged people to not immediately throw away brown food as peeling back oxidized vegetables such as cabbage and brussels sprouts can reveal a perfectly usable vegetable.
'[Meal plan to] reduce what goes in your house in the first place. So many people have a habit of blindly picking stuff up,' she explained. 'Even just jotting down a general idea, you'll end up purchasing less.'
Alison also encouraged families to freeze food they are not going to use before it goes off – such as saving a whole banana.
