I can give you one hint for green onions: plant them. Just take the whole bunch, and stick them in a pot of sand (or dirt, in the windowsill or on the deck). They last for ages that way. You can even just snip off one leaf at a time.
Trader Joe's sells basil in a pot. If you repot it (with some charcoal and pottery shards, ideally) then it keeps for a long time, and you can just take leaves as you need them. This actually works well for most herbs: for one person, you only need one little pot with say, your 4 favorite herbs. If you like cooked greens, you can plant one "collard tree" which will supply you with greens even into the winter (do you have a balcony or small yard?).
Also: don't store vegies in those stupid plastic bags. They go slimy. I make net bags out of old curtains and use them to shop for vegies, then toss the whole thing into the crisper.
Last, get those green thingies that are designed to keep vegies fresh in your crisper. THEY WORK. Commercially they are called "ethylene eaters" and they don't actually put anything out onto your vegies: they just absorb ethylene. One works for about 6 months.
And if you are in the microbial nutrition group too, you can use the extras to make kimchi or kraut, which keep forever (and make an easy side dish or flavor for soup).
I hear you about estimating food though. After many years of planning 3 meals a day, trying to get all my favorite stuff into one meal is hard. I have to pare it down to only my very favorite meals.
Hope this helps!
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:18 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com > wrote:
I am using the freezer more for leftovers and also trying to buy less food. I am having a little trouble estimating how much food to buy now, as I am eating less.
I live alone, and a lot of fresh vegetables are sold in bunches, I can't eat the whole bunch by myself.
And I hate to throw out food also. My family did lecture me about starving children, forced me to clean my plate, etc.
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