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Make salad last

ot everyone grows their salad in the garden, and so we rely on bagged salad. When I’m in Auckland, away from my garden, I buy my greens at the supermarket. The bags are filled with gas to keep the salad fresh until you open it, and then you’ve got about a day to eat it before it wilts and is inedible. Personally, if I can find a real lettuce I will buy that over a bag of salad, but sometimes they’re not available. So I open the bag and soak

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