How To: Keep An Avocado Fresh?

The Avo-saver! My New Favourite Kitchen Gadget

Introducing my new favourite kitchen gaget...... the AVO-SAVER!  A handy wee tool for keeping that unused half avocado fresh until I use it the next day!  No more avocado going brown, no more wasted avocado going in the bin.  I LOVE THE AVO-SAVER!

So what is it and how does it work?

I like to think of the avo-saver as a little avocado hammock.  This plastic tool basically hugs half an avocado so tight it keeps it fresh!

You simple add half an avocado, with the stone in, into its bed.

You then pull over the stretchy plastic avocado seat belt.

This then clips in.  Because there are different "belt holes" and because it is stretchy you can make this nice and tight no matter what size of avocado you have.  One size fits all!

And that is that!!!!

Horray for the avo-saver!

What are your favourite kitchen gadgets and gizmos?  We would love to hear about them!

How To "Eat Clean"

The clean eating phenomenon is everywhere at the moment.  It is the real buzz word about town, but what does it actually mean? 

To put it as simple as possible, eating clean is about eating natural, unprocessed, unrefined food.   It is eating food that doesn't have any unnatural additives.  It is eating fresh food that is made of real ingredients.  If something has been processed, reformed, zapped, reshaped, chemically altered or refined in some sort of way...... then it's not clean.

Clean eating would be making your pasta sauce fresh from passata, herbs, garlic, peppers and onions, rather than buying a pre-made jar which will contain all sorts of non-clean ingredients (e.g. refined sugar, additives, preservatives).

So why is it good idea to jump on this clean eating bandwagon?  Well not only to clean eating meals generally taste better and fresher, there are numerous health benefits to it. It is beneficial for sleep, energy, skin, digestive system, weight loss and much more. News.health outline some of these health benefits further.

So how do I go about it?  Well in my experience the best thing to do it get in that kitchen and get cooking with real ingredients.  Sometimes it means things take a bit longer, but it's worth it!  Use the internet - the amount of clean eating blogs and websites is infinite!  All the recipes here at the Flexitarian Pledge are clean eating.  So you will never be short of inspiration.  Pintrest is another great source of recipes to try.

Make clean sauces or meals in bulk and freeze them in portions.  Then you can take out a portion in the morning and it will be defrosted and ready for reheating by dinner.  This then makes clean eating just as quick as non-clean alternatives.  So there are no excuses!

For more top tips on how to clean eat, the following links outline their top 10 rules for clean eating and are well worth a quick read.

10 Rules for Clean Eating

10 Ways to Eat Clean

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How To........... Get Perfectly Evenly Coated Sweet Potato Wedges

Welcome to the first How To blog.  In this series I will be sharing my top tips for cooking.

Today it's how to get perfectly evenly coated sweet potato wedges.  It's such a simple technique and it minimises mess - winner!  You don't need any fancy equipment.  Just a simple sandwich bag / freezer bag.  I have described it in a couple of my blogs but thought a video might help illustrate what I mean.  This technique is not refined to sweet potatoes.....no no no.  I also use it for chips, roasted veggies..... basically anything that I want to be evenly coated in spices or oil.

Have a look at let me know what you think.  Please also let me know of your kitchen top tips.  I love hearing new ones.