Fridge Tips

Keep the fridge at a cool 1 - 5 degrees and chilled food will stay fresh for longer. Our most perishable (and often most expensive) food is kept in the fridge, so keep tabs on their use-by dates - the freezer may be the option for food we won't get round to eating in time.

• Salad storage

  Submitted by Cath Marsland, Stockport

  I threw away the drawers that came in the bottom of my fridge and replaced with long thin plastic sealable boxes now my salad ingredients stay fresher for days longer.

• Keeping Spinach/silverbeet fresh

  Submitted by Pip Clark, Sydney, Australia

  If you wash spinach and silverbeet well in cold water, shake off as much water as you can and store in an airtight container in the fridge, it will keep fresh for longer. This method also revives old spinach.

• Bag it to preserve it!

  Submitted by Helen Williams, Farnham Common, Bucks.

  Debbie Meyer Green Bags are absolutely wonderful for keeping fruit and veg fresher for longer. Broccoli especially lasts far longer than usual - I used to throw out a lot of broccoli when it started turning brown.