Best Before Date on Rock Hard Fruit!!

.. .I've just asked Carol, and she reckons that when you mix bananas and other fruit, it's the other fruit that ripens quicker.  Any other votes for either way!   

David

Yes bananas will ripen other fruits, to slow a bananas rippening keep it cool but do not put in fridge as they go black.

I find fruit from Aldi/Lidl  are usually ripe on buying in most cases 2 days will see it going off. Other supermarkets usually last a few days longer, however I've found peaches and nectarines can on occasion not rpen at al but go kind of furry inside, not pleasant at all. We don't have any markets or fruit and veg shops so can't compare them.

Never mind "best before", what we need is "poisonous after" dates.

We're lucky around here, to have a number of local markets, where fruit and vegetables are available.  There are markets three times a week in our local town, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, and each one has a couple of good fruit and vegetable stalls.

Then there is a Farmer's Market once a month, but to me some fruit and veg stalls sell  stuff which is not always as good quality as it should be and is usually vastly more expensive than the normal market.

Supermarkets keep most fruit and veg far too cold. Carrots and parsnips are a case in point, look fine when you buy them, then go all floppy / soggy as they warm up. 

We use Pyo and markets or decent green grocers for most of our fruit and veg. 

Read up about SmartFresh.....and try and buy locally grown fruit, it might need to ripen up a bit but at least it won't have been hanging around for too long.

We've got the freshest possible Bramley apples today - picked from the tree today and straight into a bag and home, courtesy of someone offering them on Freecycle to anyone who would help him pick them all.  They will shortly be converted into cooked apples for pies, apple sauce, and added to my summer fruit to make a hedgerow jelly.

Supermarkets keep most fruit and veg far too cold. Carrots and parsnips are a case in point, look fine when you buy them, then go all floppy / soggy as they warm up. 

Don't shop in Iceland then....

Supermarkets keep most fruit and veg far too cold. Carrots and parsnips are a case in point, look fine when you buy them, then go all floppy / soggy as they warm up. 

Don't shop in Iceland then....

ha ha Don't travel that far, prefer local