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How do you always keep bananas on hand?

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  • sylkates
    sylkates Posts: 173 Member
    I adore bananas as the basis for the smoothie I have for breakfast every day.

    I wait for them to ripen, then I peel them and split them into quarters to facilitate calorie counting (sometimes my smoothie is 1/2 a banana and 1/2 a cup of frozen berries, sometimes it's just one full banana for fruit). I freeze them in a large freezer Ziploc and try to squeeze all the air out first.
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    We use 2 a day, buy twice a week from different stores.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    We buy some once a week. They get ripe. People eat them but usually leave a couple to get super ripe. I make banana bread.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    When the bananas go over-ripe hubby peels them and puts them in a freezer bag. They all go in to his smoothies.

    In our household if we run out of bananas, we are out of "food".
  • BeYouTiful94
    BeYouTiful94 Posts: 289 Member
    I put them in the fridge. For some reason, when I put them in the fridge, the outside will get suuuuper black and nasty looking, but when I peel it, the banana is nice and yellow, with the exception of maybe a few spots here and there
  • feisty_bucket
    feisty_bucket Posts: 1,047 Member
    VeryKatie wrote: »
    Otherwise they cause each other to ripen.

    Yeah, "fruit signalling" is pretty freaky. WHAT ELSE ARE THEY SAYING?!

    Anyways, when having a bunch: I keep 'em out on the counter until they're optimum and then uneaten ones go in the fridge which slows 'em down.

    Ideally though, I just buy them one at a time from a convenience store, and eat immediately.
  • ElizabethOakes2
    ElizabethOakes2 Posts: 1,038 Member
    How do I always keep bananas on hand? Hide them from my husband, especially if he's in 'protein smoothie' mode.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    Don't know. I have like ten going bad at home right now because I couldn't resist the "lightly bruised" deal. I like bananas a lot, but then I'll sometimes go a week or more just ignoring them. And I don't do smoothies or breads, pancakes or waffles that require use of bananas other than just straight eating, so there ya go.
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Don't know. I have like ten going bad at home right now because I couldn't resist the "lightly bruised" deal. I like bananas a lot, but then I'll sometimes go a week or more just ignoring them. And I don't do smoothies or breads, pancakes or waffles that require use of bananas other than just straight eating, so there ya go.

    Well then, peel, stick them with a stick, freeze them, then dip in chocolate.

    Where there's a will there's a way, :-)
  • TheLittleRedHairedGirl
    TheLittleRedHairedGirl Posts: 154 Member
    I buy the snack size zip lock baggies and slice up a banana and put a half of it in a baggie and freeze them. When I want a sweet creamy treat, I'll grab a bag and eat them frozen... so good.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    successgal1 wrote: »
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Don't know. I have like ten going bad at home right now because I couldn't resist the "lightly bruised" deal. I like bananas a lot, but then I'll sometimes go a week or more just ignoring them. And I don't do smoothies or breads, pancakes or waffles that require use of bananas other than just straight eating, so there ya go.

    Well then, peel, stick them with a stick, freeze them, then dip in chocolate.

    Where there's a will there's a way, :-)

    Hahahah chocolate dipped bananas. I could totally get with that!

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