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![Our first fruit picking of the season!!! ❤️🥳👏🏼🙌🏼
Fruit picking is one of our biggest pastimes in the summer. We love eating fresh fruit that we just picked (so tasty!), it’s a thing to do with the kids (that they get excited about luckily), it allows us to freeze enough fruit to possibly not have to buy any frozen fruit over the winter, and we often get fresher fruit and at a cheaper price than the store! [We did great and still have probably literally 5 frozen strawberries left so we never ran out and had to buy them! We did end up buying one bag of frozen blueberries though.]
But fruit picking can be fairly labor and time intensive… you first have to actually go out and pick it (often, paying attention to where you can go when and also how hot it will be), but then you also have to get it home and make sure it doesn’t get wasted. That doesn’t even mention if you decide to make it into something like jam!
This cupcake carrying container is great for fruit picking because you don’t pile too many on top and you can wash and reuse it. A few years ago we learned we need to sort the strawberries the same day we pick them or they start to go bad (though we don’t have to with blueberries). We even have our pink strawberry sorting towel that we always use!
If you go to the video at the end, you can see how we sort them for maximum efficiency and for minimizing waste. Essentially, we sort into the bad ones that shouldn’t have need picked (thanks kids) that often we can give to our dog, the ones that must be eaten or frozen today, the bright red ones ready to eat now and should still be good in the next couple days, and the ones that could ripen a bit so we could start eating them in a few days. Once sorted, we put in separate containers in the fridge and pay attention so once the bright red ones are starting to darken we either eat or freeze them and start on the next container.
Do you go fruit picking? What tips do you have for saving time or money or reducing waste? Favorite recipes for fresh strawberries? I’d love to hear your tips and tricks!
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