My Darling Gran would do this with strawberries all the time and used to blow peoples minds as she would buy her Christmas Strawberries several days before the prices took off and they were always as fresh as if she had purchased them on Christmas morning. I followed in her footsteps.

This is such a good tip! I am so sick of my strawberries going off after a couple of days. The problem would be finding large enough glass jars. But I will definitely be keeping this in mind for the future. The cost of living is bad enough as it is without wasting food!

What a fantastic idea. I know many friends who already do this and I think I need to get on the bad wagon with this and give it a try. My grapes and raspberries always go off before I get a chance to eat them all. I know what I am doing this weekend – glass jar hunting.

Lol, I buy a massive amount of fruits each week and it literally never goes off !! It simply does not have the chance to go off because we eat it all 😀 I buy four times a week strawberries, I buy two times per week pears, I buy two times per week watermelon and mangos, I buy two times per week bananas and rasphberries , I buy one time per week apples, grapes, honey dew melon, oranges and blueberries and cherries

I need to try this! We have an issue with strawberries going off fast. Ive jusr ditched all our toxic plastic storage containers for glass! Looks like it would me a lot more aesthetically pleasing too having nice jars in there. I wonder if this works for things like mandarins..

It absolutely works. I have *loved* Coles current flybys promo with the glass jars. I have redeemed 3 glass jars with baskets and use them for bubs grapes, mini cucumbers and strawberries. They last ages!! I always wash and dry them before putting them in. If you have any glass container points, redeem them before they expire next week!

I’ve never heard of this or come across pictures of this. I will definitely be giving this a go. Good quality fruits are so expensive and we rarely finish it in time, so much money wasted and in the bin, it’s so wasteful. Hopefully this will solve our problem and help keep it fresh.

I’ve never done this as yet, but was thinking with the new collectable of Coles starting soon, I will try to collect these glass storing containers for fruit storage. I have been reading up about it and it seems these way of storing does improve the fruit lasting well and fresh for longer indeed

I know some people who do this.

Love this hack. Its been working well for us

I haven’t tried this but geez, I need to. I hate how quickly my berries go off. Will definitely be trying this.

Berries don’t last long enough in my house. But maybe I’ll buy extra and try this hack.

I’m certainly going to try this. I have plenty of glass jars that I was going to clear out. Now I’ll have a good use for them. Thanks for this amazing tip

Will be great if it works! Would save some money in peak seasons

I’m definitely going to try this.

I tried this for a while. They didn’t go off because they look so appetising in the jars that they didn’t last as long 🙂

This actually worked. My mum did it while we were staying with her.

My berry fruits never last long enough to go bad, but I do keep them in the fridge.

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  • • Ellen replied
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  Yes same here, I have to buy them several times a week and keep them in the fridge

Going to give this a go but I must admit strawberries don’t always last that long around here.

How fantastic! I will have to try this now! Thanks nana!!