How to keep cut vegetables and lettuce crisp for days

Do you buy baby carrots just to avoid trying to slice, dice, and store full grown carrots? Try this hack and save a little extra cash at the grocery store.
Trim off all of the green tops from the carrots. Store the tops in a separate container if you want to use them for soup later on. Store your newly trimmed carrots in a bowl of water for several weeks. Bonus points: this actually works for baby carrots too.
4. Lettuce
Pros at The Kitchn tried three different ways to keep lettuce greens fresh in the fridge.
- Method 1: Storing leaves in rolled in a paper towel then placed in a plastic bag.
- Method 2: Storing leaves in a hard, re-sealable, plastic container with a paper towel.
- Method 3: Storing the greens in a plastic produce bag with a puff of air and sealed.
Surprisingly, all three methods yielded still-fresh veggies after 7 days. At 10 days, the clear winner was method 2: Line a plastic storage container with paper towels and line the towel with greens. Don't pack them down. Seal with a lid and store. The hard container protects the leaves from getting bruised and extra space in the container provides enough air flow to keep the greens ... green!