Reviving tips

Some foods, that you might have earmarked for the bin, can be revived and given a new lease of life. Read on and please tell us your ideas too.

• Bagged Salads

  Submitted by Danni van der Walt, Bristol

  If you transfer your bagged salad leaves into a airtight container that is lined with kitchen roll this will help remove the excess moisure. Your salad with be crisp and dry and it will extents the life of the salad enormously.

• 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.

• Parsley

  Submitted by Abigail N., Israel

  Fresh parsley, cleaned, washed and dried well, will keep for over 10 days in a tightly closed plastic box between layers of paper towel

• best before dates!!

  Submitted by amanda, ashford kent

  i often buy veggies that are at their prime and are marked down,i get home and decant into smaller bags,freeze them,and then when i cook my roast,chuck the veggies at the bottom. That way we get beautiful roasted veggies at a fraction of their price!!!

• Banana

  Submitted by Mary , Exeter

  If bananas are going riper than will be eaten I pop them in the freezer whole. I then defrost them at a later time to mash & add to pancake batter or use in muffins or even add as part of the fluid to a choclate cake mix. ( 1/2 cup banana = 1/4 cup fluid).

• Cheese

  Submitted by lorie, Canada

  When I buy my cheese I take it out of its wrapper and wrap it in tin foil. The cheese does not sweat and stays fresh much longer than wrapping it in plastic.