Practically Perfect in Every Way

I was thinking about household things I do to make life a little easier and decided to share this little tip.  Also, a guest asked me why my lettuce and spinach were wrapped in paper towels and a tea towel.  Here is the answer.  If you want to have a salad or nice lettuce to put on a sandwich a trick to save you time and money is to wash your greens, spin them with a salad spinner or dry well with paper towels, wrap in dry paper towels and a 100% cotton towel, put in a Ziplock bag with the air squeezed out or a tupperware and store in your fridge.  

The reason you do this is that the greens will be practically perfect when you need them to make that salad or sandwich in a hurry.  It has been my experience that when I do this step on the day I bring home the greens they will be washed and crisp for at least a week and I will be more likely to use them than to let them rot or turn brown.  Since they are practically perfect they look good, taste good, and are good for you.  Because you can just take them out and go you will be much more likely to eat salad.  

This same trick works for celery.  Cut off the ends, wash, dry and store wrapped in paper towels or the 100% cotton tea towels like before.  This keeps them from turning brown longer also and you have immediate access to things to dip in your ranch dressing or hummus or add to your recipe.  

Why do I say 100% cotton tea towel?  Cotton will absorb moisture much better than a synthetic.  It is as simple as that.

You might ask why I would go to that much effort.  As part of our design to be helpers to our husband and family we should find ways to present good nutrition to our families and to save money where we can.  Throwing out your vegetables or greens is a waste of money.   This is a very simple way that "helping" is practically worked out.  

Genesis 2:18, 20 - 24  "The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a helper suitable for him."  "But for Adam no suitable helper was found.  So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.  Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken our of the man, and he brought her to the man.  The man said, "This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man."  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."