Vegetable Storage - Purchase storage bags with air vents.

Preserve ripe Bananas - You can freeze them whole, peeled, in plastic bags.

Fruits & vegetables -Wrap them in newspaper before storing them in the fridge. It will keep them fresh for a longer period.

Storing Mushrooms;- Cover mushrooms with a damp cloth or keep them in a paper bag with holes poked in the bag for ventilation.This will keep them dry.

Preserve coriander leaves - Keep them in a muslin cloth bag in the refrigerator. They will remain fresh for a longer time.

Green chilies -While storing green chilies, remove the stems. This will help them to stay fresh for long.

Preserve ginger-garlic paste:-Fry them in oil before grinding and store in the same oil.

Preserve apple slices from browning by placing in pineapple juice. Store it in the refrigerator, it will remain for long and yield a delightful flavor.

Preserve Lemon by rubbing a little coconut oil on them and place them in an open tray in the refrigerator. They will keep them fresh for atleast 10 days.

Preserve the tomatoes by placing them in the chiller tray just beneath the deep freeze of the refrigerator.

Preserve freshness of leafy vegetables by keeping them in cotton bags instead of polythene bags.

Preserve Tamarind by sprinkling salt in it so as to keep the worms away.

Too many peeled potatoes - Cover them with cold water to which a few drops of vinegar has been added. Keep them refrigerated and they will last for 3 or 4 days.

Green peas - Preserve them by keeping them packed in polythene bags in the freezer. Store green peas for 2 years; all you have to do is to tie the shelled green peas in a cloth and dip in boiling water for three minutes. Then dip in chilled water for three minutes. Dry under the fan till the extra moisture is removed and then pack into airtight jars or sealed packets. Freeze & use them when peas are too costly.

Apples stored with green tomatoes will hasten the ripening process.

Tomatoes and cucumbers taste best when stored at room temperature.

Place unripened fruit in a plastic bag along with ripe fruit. Ripe fruit exudes a natural gas which speeds up ripening of other fruit.

To ripen peaches, pears or tomatoes quickly, place in a brown paper bag with a ripe apple. Poke a hole in the bag and put in a cool, dark place. The apple will give off ethylene gas and cause the other fruit to ripen.

To ripen green bananas, wrap them in a wet towel and place them in a brown paper bag.

If you have more bananas than you can eat, peel, mash them with a dash of lemon juice and freeze in airtight containers for up to six months. Use, defrosted, in recipes which call for ripe bananas.

If you are storing cantaloupes in the refrigerator, wrap or cover them so that the melon flavour and scent stay inside the fruit and are not transferred to other foods in the refrigerator.

To keep fruit from discolouring, sprinkle with lemon or pineapple juice.

Save tangerine peels and dry by laying peels loosely on a cookie sheet with the insides facing up. When dry, buzz the dried pieces in a blender and use in recipes calling for orange peel.

When freezing fresh fruits or berries which don't have to be blanched, place them on a cookie sheet and freeze. When frozen, remove them from the cookie sheet and place in freezer bags or containers and put back in freezer. This prevents the fruits and berries from becoming mushy and you can remove the amount you need, without having to thaw the whole container at once.

Lemons will keep in the refrigerator for a month if you put them in a sterilized jar and cover them with cold water. Seal tightly with rubber-ringed lid.

Line bottom of the refrigerator vegetable compartment with paper towels. It absorbs moisture and keeps fruit and vegetables fresh longer.

Place a dry sponge in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator. It will help prevent mildew and food spoilage, as it absorbs excess moisture.

To store asparagus in the refrigerator, for no more than a day or two, first trim the stem ends slightly and wrap the ends in wet paper towels.

Before storing in the refrigerator, soak celery in cold water to which lemon juice has been added. It won't turn brown.

Lettuce keeps longer stored in a brown paper bag or on a paper towel in the produce drawer of your refrigerator.

Lettuce will not discolour so quickly if you line the bottom of your crisper with paper towels. The paper absorbs the excess moisture, keeping fruits and vegetables fresh for a longer period of time.

Dry parsley in the microwave and store for future use.

Cover fresh mushrooms with a dampened paper towel and refrigerate. They will keep fresh for several days.

Once the Cucumber has been cutted ; wrap it in a paper towel & it will not get soggy for up to 2 weeks.

Store curry leaves in silver foil, it will last as much as one month.

Don't freeze cabbage, lettuce, or other raw leafy greens, cucumbers, or radishes - they'll be mushy when thawed.

Lettuce will keep longer if you store them in paper bags instead of cellophane.

For clean storage of radish remove there tops before putting in the refrigerator.

Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator it will remain for weeks.