Preservatives

Um sweaty dry beans are shelf stable for five years ☝️🤓

Avocados are the worst offenders in another way — they turn from unripe to overripe in a matter of single day it seems, and the only way to check the ripeness is to cut them up. No other fruit pulls this trickery.

Frozen veggies are cheap and healthy and can weather many ice ages in the back of the freezer before being rediscovered

Store your avocados in the fridge in a bowl/tupperware of water. They will ripen much much slower. Like 5x I swear.

Wash your veggies when you buy them, dry them thoroughly, and store them in a sanitary environment; they'll last much longer this way.

I regularly keep my organic veggies for weeks at a time before cooking them with no molds or rotting.

It also helps to buy from a growers market where things haven't been in cold storage for months before getting to the store.

Yeah because even bacterias don't want that junk lol