So I used to buy the store brand bananas because they’re the cheap ones. But they are wrapped in a plastic bag, making it so that you can’t choose how many you buy. Every week I had to throw away bananas because that went bad before I could finish them. Pretty wasteful huh. But since me and my kid love eating bananas, I had to constantly buy new ones.
The A-brand bananas, more expensive, aren’t wrapped in plastic. They only have a sticker on each banana. So I started breaking up that uhm, bunch of bananas and only buy about three at a time. Or I buy three yellow ones and three very green ones. I now don’t have to throw away bananas anymore, saving me some money.
This might only be mildly interesting or a bit dull, but I’m kinda proud I thought of this simple change haha.
Buying the expensive bananas saves me money
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What’s funny is they are the EXACT same bananas.
All bananas are clones.
You can also keep them in the fridge to slow their ripening, ideally in a sealed container. (so that the skin won’t oxidize and the whole fridge doesn’t smell like bananas)
They easily store for at least a week or two, I have also tried storing peeled bananas, those also easily lasted a week.
I buy these produce bags that I put the bananas in. You can reuse them about 10 times. It really makes the regular bananas last several days longer. You also just put scotch tape around the stems after you break them off individually which helps.
Have you tried peeling and freezing instead of tossing?
When frozen they’re delicious by themselves, and still great in yogurt/cereal
I have never heard of store-brand bananas. All my grocery stores just have one pile of loose bananas. No bagged.
I like to freeze the over-ripe ones and put them in my smoothies
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I have no problem breaking up big bunches of bananas. I would take three a week to lunch, and I bought three a week.
First time I’m learning about bananas in plastic bag being sold.
Are you sure you can’t just open the bags and only buy the amount you want? Are they priced by the bag, or by the pound?
Proud of ya
Where do you shop? I’ve never seen bananas prepackaged in plastic before. It sounds like you’re making a great choice to reduce waste 😃
Get a banana bag. They will keep for a couple of weeks.
Where I am ours are by weight and are bunched and single so you can get however many you need
idk, That’s wild! I guess it really varies by store. Some places just don’t want you to be picky, huh!
Around me, the plastic wrapped bananas are the expensive ones and theyre most often sold green. Thats how we denote our organic bananas.
Peel and freeze the banana. Never toss
If you wrap the ends of the bunch in plastic it’ll make them last longer.
So I loathe brown bananas and I learned a trick to make bananas last longer (not ripen so quickly) put then in the fridge, importantly in a plastic bag that has holes in it (ie a lettuce bag). My bananas now never go ripe too fast and do not turn brown so fridge bananas do (because of the bag). I have been doing this for years. I keep then in the fruit/veg drawer.
You and your kid both love bananas, but you can only eat 1.5 each before anything else goes bad? Our bananas easily last a week. Like others, I’ve never heard of branded or bagged bananas.
I break them up too to get a few ripe and unripe, that way they last for the whole week.
I need celery for recipes every so often, but hate it in salad or raw. It will DIE in my crisper. If the store is out of individual celery stalks, I will pull a bunch from the sleeve and break off 1-2.
Yes, I pay a higher cost per pound for the weight of the celery, but I am buying less, and it doesn’t die in the fridge. Only buy the stalks I need!
Store brand or any other bananas wrapped in plastic?
Bulk bananas are never wrapped in plastic and are always cheaper. Spendy bananas may have a band around them – but never ‘wrapped in plastic’. This is because just like like onions, they off-gas all the time.
what in the world is a store brand banana, no store has a banana farm
Don’t throw bananas away if they’re over ripe. Freeze them for smoothies or banana bread.
Freeze them and then use for smoothies.
These little grocery store hacks are so good for limiting food waste!
We have a lizard that eats fresh leafy greens daily. At first they’d go bad in the fridge before getting through the bushels when I bought them. One time we went food shopping and I watched my husband get the greens- he opened the ties and would take out 2-3 stalks of each one (collard greens, Swiss chard, dandelion) and only pay for the weight of that. I had literally never thought of just not buying the whole massive bushel, my Genius man I married! lol Never wasted the greens again.
You can refrigerate bananas just fine. Peels will look bad but inside is totally fine.
Since Bananas are sold by weight,we snap a few off if we think we won’t eat that many in a week.
“It’s one banana, Michael. How much could it cost, $10?“