Check out these berries!

So, I'm not typically one to get excited over household items, but I have to tell you all about these totally awesome food storage containers I got for Christmas. Yes, I actually did ask for tupperware for Christmas. I'm a dork. Here's the story... I was flipping through the channels one day and saw a segment about these cool new silver-lined containers that are supposed to keep food fresher longer. I guess the silver particles absorb or neutralize or kill the bateria that grows on food. I'm not all that sure how it works.

We have a problem at our house with fruit getting moldy before we can eat it all, which annoys me. Mostly strawberries and grapes. Lauren is really the only one that eats the strawberries and by the forth day in the fridge they are usually getting pretty sketchy. Anyway, my parents bought me a set of these rather spendy Fresher Longer containers (they aren't made by Tupperware, by the way) and I have to tell you, I'm ready to replace the rest of my stuff with it.

Here's the proof:

I bought these strawberries on Jan 2 and I took the pictures on the 23rd. That's 3 weeks and not a bit of mold! The bottom picture is a close up of the nastiest looking one. Of course we didn't eat these, (they were my test subjects), but I totally would have at 2 weeks old. They didn't even start to get squishy til the third week.






Okay, so it's going to take a lot of strawberries saved to equal what the containers cost, but still, I am amazed at how well they work! Leftovers last longer too.

-Stacey