Picking Produce Part 5

My last few pieces of advice on picking produce are when you get home if you did buy in bulk, immediately go through the produce to be sure that there are no bad pieces. If there are bad pieces, take them out and throw them away so they don't spoil the rest of the produce in the bag. A good example of this is potatoes. If you buy 5 or 10 pounds of potatoes, open the bag and look at each one for soft spots or areas that are already spoiling. By the time you smell it, they have often spoiled the whole bag.

Consider what you will do with those pieces of produce which are starting to go bad. Plan things likes soups or casseroles so that you can use them up. Also, with fruit, consider making them into jam.