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Wrinkled Fruit perfectly edible 05/01/2008 Karma: 3  
10 ways to rescue old fruit and vegetables...
http://www.smartplanet.com/news/food/10001020/10-ways-t
o-rescue-old-fruit-and-veg.htm

Don't toss out wrinkled or bruised fruit and vegetables! they still have nutritional value
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Re:Wrinkled Fruit perfectly edible 05/02/2008 Karma: 0  
Those recipes look very useful.
My vegetables always seem to be rotting whenever I turn my back because I'm not home enough to eat them up. These are great ideas to save the produce i've forgotten in the back of my fridge. I made banana bread the other day and it was extremely yummy.
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Re:Wrinkled Fruit perfectly edible 05/02/2008 Karma: 3  
That's cool!

Here's a tip for a ripe banana and a great frozen treat.

If you don't have time to bake or cook and you have bananas that are ripe, just peel them and freeze them!

I like to cut them up into pieces and put them in a bag. later they can be eaten as a frozen desert as is instead of ice cream.

Or you can toss the frozen banana pieces into a fruit smoothie when you actually have time to break out the blender!
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Re:Wrinkled Fruit perfectly edible 05/13/2008 Karma: 0  
If they are beyond saving...COMPOST!

My favorite way to use old vegetables is to simmer them for an hour, blend them, and then enjoy them as a soup!
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Re:Wrinkled Fruit perfectly edible 05/13/2008 Karma: 3  
I agree!

The point is that many people have a low tolerance threshold with respect to what qualifies produce as "good to eat" and what equals "beyond saving".

qualify please! what do YOU think the signs are that fruit or veggies are "beyond saving"??

Some say a bruise or a little deydration means it's not good to eat, and so they throw them on the compost heap or in the garbage.

They are losing some valuable nutrition and they are wasting good food by discarding it. Still, if they are not going to eat it, at least the soil can benefit if it's composted. Good point!
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Re:Wrinkled Fruit perfectly edible 05/13/2008 Karma: 0  
Ha! I pretty much say anything is worth saving. But to be more specific, if the fruits or vegetables are visibly rotting then I usually toss them. If there is just a bump, bruise, brown spot, etc I would still use it or just trim off the damaged part.

Non-organic produce has trained us to believe that everything should be sparkling and shiny. Brown is not bad. But brown, mushy, sticky, and smelly probably is.....
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