Carrots

When dumpster diving, or cleaning out your fridge, don’t be deterred by carrots that look rotten – the damage is probably only skin deep. Some of the carrots on the left in the picture below looked worse than the ones on the right do. They all felt nice and firm, though, so I started off by just cutting off the brown sections. But I soon realized that the brown was only on the surface, and came off with just one swipe of the potato peeler, and the carrot right underneath it was perfectly good!

What’s more, I pulled these carrots out of a dumpster two weeks ago, and they don’t seem to have deteriorated at all in my fridge since then. Carrots, cauliflower, and onions are proving to keep fresh for a long time after dumpster diving.