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.

• Paper in veg drawer

  Submitted by Maureen, Surrey

  I put a piece of scrap paper in with the vegetables in my fridge drawer. Any moisture goes inthe paper not the vegetables or salad.

• Moist rice!!!!!

  Submitted by Fauziya and family, liverpool

  When you have cooked rice, make sure you add more water in to make your rice moist to go in the fridge or freezer for the next day.

• To keep watercress fresh

  Try to buy watercress in bunches. To keep a bunch fresh, put it upside down in a bowl of water and keep in the fridge.