For the last 3 1/2 weeks of my pregnancy, I was on bed rest. One of the key areas that was affected was our ability to get dinner on the table. Fortunately, we had friends and church members step in to help us out, and we had very little cooking that we needed to do.
Unfortunately, I went to the grocery store the day before I got put on bed rest, so I had crisper drawers full of produce that were more or less forgotten about. About 2 weeks after I bought some romaine lettuce, I went downstairs just to throw it away, because I remembered that it was in there, and I just knew it was stinking up the entire refridgerator.
Much to my surprise, I discovered some lettuce that looked as though it had been purchased 2 or 3 days earlier, not 2 weeks before. I give all the credit to the Bluapple, which has a home in my crisper drawer and works very hard to keep all our produce fresh.
Here’s a basic rundown of why your produce goes bad so fast, and how the Bluapple helps out. Produce makes ethylene gas, which has the function of promoting uniform ripening. But when concentrated in a crisper drawer, the result is often that food over-ripens quickly, leaving you literally throwing away your money.
The Bluapple absorbs ethylene gas for up to 3 months in a crisper drawer, and helps keep your produce fresh much longer. It is definitely working in my crisper drawer, and it will work in yours, too!
You can purchase a set of Blueapples for $9.95 and a 12 month refill kit can also be purchased for $9.95.
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Disclosure: I received complimentary products for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own.
I find myself throwing out strawberries before they have been eaten the most often.
Oranges and apples! We can never get through them in time.
Bananas and tomatoes are the two which always seem to get wasted.
Mushrooms and strawberries!
Our cucumbers always seem to get mushy really quick!
Strawberries and bananas
Strawberries and zucchini
I throw out a lot of celery.
cucumbers and lettuce.
It seems like I’m always throwing out celery and lettuce.
Lettuce & Strawberries
Lettuce and fruits
mightynaynay(at)cs.com
Potatoes are what we usually end up throwing out. Thank you for the giveaway.
We don’t buy much fruit and veg… because it usually goes bad before we manage to eat it. We do buy broccoli and bananas when they’re on sale and I usually end up cutting the bad bits off to try and salvage anything that’s left.
Celery
almost always apples!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Katielovesdeals@yahoo.com
I throw out bananas the most.
Red leaf lettuce is the worst. Thanks for the giveaway.
Usually lettuce, which drives me crazy because I hate to waste anything!
i lose banana the most
Lettuce is the worst us
I am always throwing out bananas and lettuce. Thank you for the lovely giveaway!
Erin E
busymom369 at gmail dot com
I suppose that I throw out bananas the most. I should just make banana bread but I don’t. Sigh. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
Oranges and celery. I have never heard of these and would love to try them.
Lately, its been the bananas. I don’t know whether they have been frozen, or what – but they only seem to last 2 or 3 days before I end up baking with them because they are that far gone.
lettuce
amy16323(at)gmail(dot)com
definitely lettuce. I buy at the farmer’s market and it seems to go bad quickly. Thank you
salad
Celery!
bananas!
jessicaahays at hotmail dot com
I throw out lettuce the most. Thanks for the giveaway.
Salad and celery!
Strawberries and bananas
I never use all my lettuce before it goes wilty.
I throw away a lot of lettuce & broccoli. 🙁
I throw away lots of kiwis and mangos
strawberries
bananas and lettuce
Usually salad.
Strawberries and cucumbers
bananas and strawberries
kport207 at gmail dot com
apples apples and more apples – what a great idea – good luck everyone!
We throw out lettuce and strawberries the most. This little product would be a big moneysaver.
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we throw out too many grapes and strawberries
I always end up throwing out lettuce especially if I buy bagged lettuce the next day it’s already brown
lettuce!
berries
I just threw out lettuce and I have to throw out tomatoes soon too.
I find that stone fruit, like peaches or plums goes bad quickly
I always find myself throwing out beansprouts. Hope this works for me!
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Cucumbers. I can never eat them fast enough!
apples and lettuce
Lettuce and salad…I waste so much!
mushrooms… I always find them in the back of the fridge.
bananas!
Bananas. We are always throwing out the last one :/
i throw out alot of lettuce and celery
bananas
Strawberries!
We throw out strawberries and lettuce the most
strawberries gone bad
usually the last banana or two of the bunch
Bananas and lettuce!
berries – they get moldy so fast
bananas always!
i might as well just throw my lettuce directly into the trash can when i get home from the grocery store
Lettuce definitely…then most fruits that I buy.
For sure strawberries.
I find that strawberries spoil quickly.
Most often are strawberries.
spinach and bananas
broccoli and celery 🙁
Strawberries
Always the bananas!
Bananas and lettuce
lettuces…
Strawberries
bananas
I always find myself throwing out peaches and fresh spinach the most often! I really love stone fruits but I’m always scared to buy more than one for fear they will spoil in just a day or two.
strawberries
Bananas go to waste the most at our house.
Like a bunch of people before me – lettuce! Seems to always go bad before we can eat all of it.
lettuce
Id say lettuce
We trow out lettuce and tomatoes most often.
We love grapes here, but we never seem to get through them before they start going bad :-/
peaches
Cucumbers seem to go bad quickly.
Lately it’s been tomatoes!
Lettuce is one we toss quite often.
bell peppers or cucumbers. Too often!
Bananas
Tomatoes, all the time.
lettuce bell peppers
We throw out too many apples
Lettuce
Spinach
lettuce
cucumbers!
We throw out a lot of cucumbers.
We throw out a lot of tomatoes.
celery and lettuce
lettuce and bananas
bananas (I freeze them), spinach, and cilantro
We throw out berries and cucumbers all the time!
It’s kind of a toss-up. Sometimes we throw out stawberries and some times lettuce.
I always seem to buy one too many tomatoes.
This would save us a lot of money, we throw out peppers and carrots the most.