It’s almost mystifying really. The delicious looking spinach that you put in the crisper on Sunday, is somehow brown and limp on Monday.
It seems that certain types of produce are somehow made to look crisp and appealing in the store, only to wilt in what seems like minutes after getting it home. It reminds me of those Swarovski stores where you think that possibly there is something wrong with your eyes, the way everything glitters, glows and emits rainbow arcs of glinting light. And when you turn around to the garish lights of the mall, it seems like the regular world is somehow less appealing in it’s ordinariness. Well, don’t let the produce fool you. It really is good for you and delicious too, even if it is not emitting sparkly rainbows.
On Mondays I shop with the best of intentions. No matter how many nights this week we will not be home for a reasonable dinner hour, I will ensure that we get these veggies cleaned, cooked and consumed. Really I will. Except each day brings a new reason why I can’t get to this chore that hangs over me like a cartoon rain cloud. And so by the weekend I peer into the crisper and wonder if any of it is still edible. The shame of having to throw out another batch of what should have been nourishing produce is difficult to bear making me wonder if I should just compost a $20.00 bill rather than go through the hassle of choosing the food, lugging it home, storing it, and sorting through it to throw it out.
Well, today’s deal is our chance to keep the crisp in the crisper. To keep the veggies you swear you are actually going to eat, fresh long enough to actually give you a chance to eat them. Todays offer from Medallion Healthy Homes is a great invention called the Fridge Wizard. The Fridge Wizard’s claim to glory is that it will keep your produce fresh longer, giving you more time to get to it and leaving you with less waste (and less guilt, which to me is sort of like the pot of gold at the end of those rainbows!)