Keeping food FRESH

Avoiding waste saves money and is eco-friendly. Here are clever tips for making food last longer

- Becky Dickinson

Stuffed onions

Storing onions in old (but clean) tights can help them last for months – yes, really. Drop an onion into the foot, tie a knot to keep them separate, insert another onion, knot, and so on, until you’ve run out of onions or leg room. Then hang the tights somewhere cool and dark.

It’s a wrap

Put an end to limp veg by wrapping carrots, celery and cucumbers in aluminium foil before storing in the fridge. We don’t know why it works but it does!

Tomato turnovers