Vegetarian veterans will know this, but for novices, here's what works for me. For enough variety, I find it necessary to keep more veggies than will fit in the crisper. Plus, handling them all individually with the fridge door open makes no sense. I've found keeping them all together in a plastic basket, each loosely wrapped in a store plastic or paper bag works better. That way, I can just pull out the basket and find what suits me. When I'm done, it all just slides quickly back into its place in the fridge. A few unwieldy things like a bunch of beets with tops may not fit in the basket, but as long as the whole thing is tight enough to contain a little natural moisture, it can stay fresh fitted into almost any other space in the fridge. Cut avocados need to be covered with their own skin and still contain their own seed or they may go brown. That doesn't work very well in the basket, so I simply set them on whatever surface they can safely fit. Crisper drawers become storage for other things that are needed less often.
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