Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Housekeeping

Find cleaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Housekeeping forum.

Where / how do you store fruit?

8 replies

AalyaSecura · 26/01/2018 17:38

We have a pretty minimalist kitchen, everything tucked away and built-in. I don't know what to do with the fruit though! Some is in the fridge, but we have a load of bananas, apples and oranges kicking about each week, too many for a normal fruit bowl, which I find annoying anyway.

Looking for ideas to copy please!

OP posts:
Trills · 26/01/2018 19:30

A bigger bowl?

I like apples cold from the fridge, personally.

MikeUniformMike · 27/01/2018 14:51

Fruit including courgettes and peppers keep better in a fruit bowl or vegetable rack.
I use a vintage vegetable rack

MikeUniformMike · 27/01/2018 14:54

Store bananas separately on a banana tree.

Bubbinsmakesthree · 27/01/2018 15:58

I used to have a big fruit bowl but there would always end up with a tired satsuma getting lost at the bottom of the bowl and going mouldy. I've just replaced with a set of three smaller bowls - bananas have their own bowl, and I don't have the problem of old fruit hiding any more.

AalyaSecura · 27/01/2018 18:57

I've just been reading new advice that apples should be stored in the fridge now, in the bag. Whereas bananas continue to be an evil influence unless you've got a rock-hard avocado to deal with. I've just spotted a big but flat wire fruit bowl at John Lewis that might do the trick for the fruit that still needs keeping out of the fridge, and it shouldn't lead to a lost rotten satsuma! Hopefully.

OP posts:
melj1213 · 28/01/2018 01:58

DD and I get through a lot of fruit in a week so I actually ended up scrapping our fruit bowl and bought a tiered stand like the one in the picture.

It's actually meant as a planter to put in the garden with trailing plants in, but I have it in the corner of my worktop and it's great - I can separate fruit out so the bananas can be kept away from the other fruit but still be in the same general vicinity; if I have fruit that needs to "ripen at home" then I will put it in a separate bowl to the fruit you can just grab and eat immediately and I can easily see which fruits we tend to be more in the mood for and adjust my buying to reduce the waste (eg if I notice there's a lot of apples left in their bowl but the orange bowl is empty, then the next week I will buy less apples and more oranges)

Where / how do you store fruit?
NoraBarlow111 · 01/02/2018 20:30

I have a shallow wicker basket lined with packing straw. It's big so fruit can sit in a single layer. You could use a shallow wooden box or even a cardboard box.

43percentburnt · 01/02/2018 20:38

Mine are currently in a long line on the kitchen work surface! I don’t recommend it!

I like melj’s tiered bowl.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread