How to Make Foods Last Longer

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Keep foods fresher longer with these tricks.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Bread
An apple
Brown bags
Plastic bags
Paper towels

Step 1: Keep cookies crisp

Keep the treats in your cookie jar from getting stale by putting a piece of bread -- preferably white bread -- inside the jar; the cookies will draw moisture from the bread, keeping them soft. Replace the bread when it gets hard.

Tip: Stick a slice of bread inside an opened box of brown sugar to keep it from hardening.

Step 2: Stop spuds from sprouting

Prevent potatoes from sprouting by putting them in a brown bag with a whole apple. This will keep them good for up to eight weeks.

Step 3: Sit tomatoes stem down

Store tomatoes at room temperature, uncovered and stem-side down, which blocks air from entering through the stem and prevents moisture from getting out. Putting tomatoes in the fridge may inhibit bacterial growth, but they'll quickly lose their flavor and texture.

Step 4: Separate fruits and veggies

Keep fruits and vegetables away from each other; fruits emit ethylene, a gas that makes vegetables ripen faster.

Step 5: Absorb veggie moisture

Put a paper towel in plastic bags of precut vegetables or washed lettuce. It will absorb the moisture that causes them to rot.

Tip: With the exception of lettuce and leafy greens, wash your produce just before eating. Otherwise, the moisture can make it spoil faster.

Step 6: Store butter and eggs properly

Keep eggs in their container on a bottom shelf and butter in a covered dish on a top or middle shelf. The fridge door is too warm to maintain freshness.

Step 7: Store apples in fridge

Keep apples in the refrigerator, in plastic bags with a few holes for ventilation. They'll last weeks longer there than in a fruit bowl.

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How to make foods last longer:

1) Don't eat the food

2) Eat the food when hungry, don't eat all

3) Once ran out of food, at least you made it last longer

4) You may now starve to death.

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items: Chef Excellent black cheese bags

Step one: place food in the worth less bags and wait to rot

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[MollyPocketQueen]

Keeps food from rotting by wasting other foods

[Tocowbell]

An Easier but not as tasty way.

Step 1, eat the rotton food,