Going Green

So, last week I bought two green peppers to eat on my salads. I would have preferred red peppers but they were twice the price and so I bought green. Four Days later they had both gone bad!!! Should I go shopping every other day, should I assume that my food will not last longer than 3 days max, I don't want to make that assumption, but it really seems to me that the cheaper the food, the faster it goes bad. (A really good example would be the fact that the $1.00 cherries and $0.77 Strawberries I wanted to buy today all had mold- I was able to find some that didn't look too bad after 5-10 minutes of searching through mounds and mounds of bags and pints, ARGH).



So, the morning after throwing the peppers away I found myself daydreaming about some new product I saw on an infomercial. As I only saw about a minute of the comercial all I can tell you is that it was for hard plastic containers that were the next step up from "Green Bags". Both items claim to be made with special plastic that negates the gasses fruits and vegetables create that cause them to spoil. They make everything- absolutely everything- from Peppers to Pasta, from Brussel Sprouts to Brownies, last longer. If I only had those containers I would never have to throw away food that I would have loved to eat (were it not furry). On Monday we found ourselves at Target, (they had a Sale on DVDs), and on an end cap some "As seen on TV" items caught my eye. There they were, "Green Bags", 20 bags for $9.99. So I got some, I figure if they work, then they will pay for themselves, and if they work, then maybe the containers would actually work too, and maybe, just maybe, I would be able to save up the money I save from not throwing away produce and get some containers that would save our bread, and cookies (but I guess cookies don't stay around long enough to go bad).



I don't have a camera right now, but if I did you would see a test going on in my kitchen. I left one of every item out of its bag, just like they normally would be, stored in the fridge or on the counter- where ever I normally store them. And I will see how fast they go bad as compared to the items in the green bags. I will let you know what the results of my very scientific test are.