Saving a box of bananas - light humor

[Guest guest]

Hello All!

 

quick scenario:

 

~3/15 - bought 1st box of raw, organic bananas - fairly ripe/mostly

yellow

 

3/19 - decided to go on a short water fast (lasted 62 hours, by

design; all went well)

 

(can anyone see the collision coming up here? lol!)

 

3/21 - ordered first sampler box of dates from Date People

 

3/22 - bought a vacuum pump sealer kit (WM - ~$58.xx) in prep for

date arrival - already have quart jars...

 

3/23 - noticed that I still have a *lot* of bananas, and they're

approaching the " perfect to eat " state, lots of brown spots all over..

 

3/24 - get up this a.m., and am reminded by the fragrance of

bananas, and saw a couple of fruit flies...probably still have about

15-20 pounds of bananas at this point...

 

decided I out to do something quickly before they all rotted, I

started a new fruitfly colony, or my mostly SAD wife had anymore

comments about the bananas....

 

my thoughts at this point:

1. find some way to salvage them...

a. just keep waiting - they would go bad for sure;

b. put some in the fridge - not a lot of room for very many;

c. try some other " salvage " method - freezing?? I occasionally

use some for banana ice cream...not ideal, and I like it..

 

2. give some away;

 

3. throw them away, since they would quickly be reaching the old

banana bread stage!

 

Then, I came up with an alternative: I decided to use the vacuum

pump bags...put about 8-10 bananas (about a days supply now for me..)

into each bag, and seal them up. Mind you, I hadn't even used this

bagger/vacuum yet...soooo..drag it out, read instructions, and get

going....

 

End result: I've got 4-5 vacuum-sealed bags on the shelf, hoping to

extend their life for a few day, and I've got one in the back of the

fridge, on top of my wife's beers. I was originally concerned that

the vacuum would make banana pudding out of the still in their skins

bananas, but it didn't!

 

and, yes, I had a banana/apple smoothie for breakfast.

 

I'll let everyone know later how this experiment turned out...

 

have a great day!

 

Bob (5.5 months raw, 5 weeks all fruit, a few vegys, and very limited

nuts..)

 

ps - glad to have found the group, and thanks for listening!

[Guest guest]

Thanks for sharing this experience, Bob. It must be the SAD still in

me, but this part made me laugh out loud:

 

> ...and I've got one in the back of the fridge, on top of my wife's

> beers.

 

We live in a mixed raw/SAD household right now, so I can appreciate the

dichotomy of having vacuum sealed bananas on top of beers.

 

Please let us know how the bananas hold up. I have been thinking of

getting a vacuum sealer for a while now.

 

Kim ;-)