Properly store and preserve autumn treasures

September and October are our golden harvest months for long-lasting fruits and vegetables. Do you also find that you were able to harvest many apples, pears, plums, or quinces from the garden? Or were supplied by friends and family?

Often the double-edged sword becomes apparent here. Because everyone is delighted by the magnificent treasures that can be used to prepare all sorts of wonderful things. But perhaps you too are wondering how dishes can be modified so as not to have to eat the same thing every day. Because quickly, the food becomes tiresome or may even spoil if it's not consumed. That would be annoying, wouldn't it?

We want to support you on this topic, with our tips and recipes to bring more variety to your meal plan. Moreover, our app ensures that you don't miss any food expirations, and this way you save real money. If you're not familiar with it yet, give it a try right now!

Our first recommendation, and also the most well-known method to preserve ripe fruit for longer, is canning. This prevents the fruit from spoiling quickly, and the canned goods can easily last for 12 months. Preserved foods can be easily integrated into various meal variations.

Must a must!

Whether it's apple puree, raspberry puree, pear puree, apricot puree, plum puree, rosehip puree, coconut or nut puree. Puree is the simplest form of canning.

With Mus, it's very simple. Whether with hash browns, porridge, pancakes, or on cake. There are no limits to preferences here.

Stock of applesauce, delicious with all sorts of dishes.

Store fruit properly

Have you ever experienced this? You have a lot of apples and they rot faster than you can eat them? We are familiar with this problem too. Here, alongside the variety of apple, the key is proper storage. Only the daily requirement should be stored in the fruit bowl. Everything else should be moved to a cool, dark place, like the cellar for example. There, a humidity level of 85 to 90% is optimal. It is also important to store apples separately from other fruits and vegetables. This is because apples can influence their ripening process. If the apples are undamaged, clean, and dry, they can last without any problems until spring.

Dark and cool, that's how apples prefer it for good storage.

What makes the difference in storage for the apple variety?

Not every apple can be stored without issues. There are early/summer, autumn, and winter apples. With this list, we want to make it easier for you to understand the storability.

With this chart, storing apples over the winter will be hassle-free.

Not a conspiracy, but compote

Compote is another way you can extend the shelf life of many types of fruits and vegetables. You can easily store it for up to 12 months or even longer without any problems. It's important to periodically perform a visual check. Because it can quickly happen that a jar has let in air or was perhaps contaminated from the start. Use our App to always keep track of how much you have of what and when it needs to be consumed.

Good preparation is everything!

This saying is not far-fetched and an important tip when it comes to adding variety to the meal plan. Instead of eating potato pancakes with applesauce for 3 days in a row, meals can easily be varied to be delicious. Here we show you 3 ways to not only cover lunch but also to spice up breakfast and dinner with variety.

Breakfast: Pancakes with apple sauce*

In between: Apple sauce cake, Yogurt with apple sauce

Lunch: Potato dumplings with apple sauce

Dinner: Bread with peanut butter and applesauce

Tip: Applesauce can also be used very well as an egg substitute. One egg is replaced by 70 gr. of sauce. Give it a try!

Tomatoes are not only great for sauce.

Not blind to the obvious

The tomato is a vegetable that can also be preserved quickly by canning, without much preparation. You probably think of a delicious sauce first when you think of tomatoes, which you can prepare. But even here, with a bit of thought, variety can be brought to the plate.

If you prepare a tomato compote* it can easily transform breakfast, lunch, and dinner into something fantastic. It tastes delicious on toasted white bread, as bruschetta, or on buttermilk biscuits* for breakfast. It's also simply scrumptious with grilled meat or vegetables. The recipe described here can be kept in the fridge for about a month without any worries. If you want to preserve it for even longer, canning is essential.

You can easily make a sauce from canned tomatoes, so that a delicious tomato sauce can be conjured up. This allows the often popular dish of pasta with tomato sauce to be whipped up in no time. Canned tomatoes or vegetables are also very suitable for preparing casseroles. Whether as lasagna, moussaka, or a vegetable quiche, there is plenty of room for your creativity.

So, are you itching to get started right away? Great, then get to the jars. But don't forget! With all the pantry jars, it can happen that you lose track of their shelf life and forget which one to consume first. To prevent this from happening, our app supports you with digital monitoring. Check right away if everything is still in the green. Not using our app yet? Then download it here and try it for free.

Do you often have the problem that prepared meals spoil or you throw them away prematurely because you're unsure if they're still edible? Then this blog can support you in getting a sense for it.

We wish you lots of fun preserving your autumn treasures. Do you have any questions or suggestions? Then write to us at kontakt@speisekammer.app, we look forward to your message!

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