photos of fruit storage

I thought some more about my post from last night. Particularly, how I store food.

For instance, I've now made it my practice for this blog, to photograph the food I purchase at the grocery store. At some point, I'm going to put it all together and figure out what I actually eat in the macro sense -- the idea being, I purchased and likely ate 98% of what I ate, such that, I ate 324 bananas in the last year (a made up number for illustration). I think it would be interesting. Surely a project for after school :-).

I also almost always organize my food -- particularly fruits and vegatables. I suppose the idea is to try to organize it by fruit and vegetable -- and then within that trying to organize it such that I have the foodstuffs divided between new purchases and old purchases. Of course, I try to eat the old stuff first and then eat into the new stuff. I typically buy enough food for a week or so (veggies) -- and there's about a 10 day window for fruit.

FRUIT.
I figure I eat roughly 3-5 pieces of fruit per day pretty consistently (mostly from smoothies). That means in one week I will go through ~35 pieces of fruit. That's alot! :-).

So what I often do these days, is count how much fruit I have in stock (sometimes it's from memory if I leave for the grocery store from work/school instead of home). For instance, today, here was the food I had "in stock":



So when I buy food (tonight mostly fruit) I line it up on the stove (and then photograph it). Like here:




Once the food is photograph, I then basically divide up the fruit into different 2 gallon bags and then try to organize it in the fridge such that I can get to the oldest fruit first and then get to the newer fruit.