Extending the Life of Leftover Lettuce

I hate throwing food away.  When we have salad as part of dinner, there is always leftover lettuce. (It's a tricky calculation to predict how much lettuce 4 people will consume at any given time!)  If I eat lettuce for lunch the next day, it is usually fine.

Quite often though, I don't feel like salad again and so it sits in the fridge until later that day or the next.  By then the cut leaves are browning and unpalatable. 

So what's a 2nd Best Job in the World guy to do?

Get better at calculating how much lettuce to clean and cut?

 No.  Find a better way to store the leftover lettuce.

 Leftover lettuce.

 

Ziploc bag.

Paper towel in Ziploc bag.

Lettuce on top of paper towel in Ziploc bag.

Filled with lettuce.

 

 

 

Squeeze out as much air as possible.

 

 

 

 Zip it shut.

 

 

This lettuce will stay fresh for days.