Tip of the week: buying avocados

Avocados are only 50¢ each this week at Safeway, and as a huge avocado lover I always take this opportunity to stock up.

How do you stock up on fresh produce, you ask?  It's easy.

Avocados are ripe when they give slightly when squeezed.  You can easily speed up the ripening process by putting the avocado in a brown paper bag at room temperature.  You can easily slow down and nearly stop the ripening process by putting the avocado in the fridge.

For 2 - 3 weeks of ripe avocados:

1) Pick out avocados at a variety of ripenesses.  During this sale, there will probably be avocados both near the Safeway entrance as well as in the main produce section.  At the least, make sure most of the avocados are not yet ripe.

2) Place the ripest avocados in a paper bag on your kitchen counter.  Eat these in the next few days. 

3) Place the rest of the avocados in your fridge.  Take out of fridge and put in paper bag 1-2 days before you run out of ripe ones.

4) Enjoy the 500 days of, er 21 days of avocados!!

--Safewaygirl

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