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Ok I have a new question. What is the best way to store greens and keep them fresh? We have tried freezing them in the past and that didn't work. How do you all store and keep your greens?
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Ricky and Staci
1 male Albino Leopard Gecko ( Violent Jay)
2 Female Jungle Leopard Geckos (Sasha and Lil' Bit)
1 Juvenile Snow Leopard Gecko(unnamed)
1 Juvenile High Yellow Leopard Gecko (unnamed)
1 Juvenile High Tang Leopard Gecko (Profit)
1 Juvenile Bearded Dragon ( Rosalita)
1 Box Turtle (tooter)
1 1/2 dachshund 1/2 Rat Terrier (Dot)
2 Daughters ( Destani and Haliee)

People have posted this before. I just leave mine in the bags I get from the store and put them in the drawers in my refrigerator and they stay well for a week. I must say that they are good quality where I get them and I think that must make a big difference.

what i think is the best way is to keep them in the bag that you buy them in then if they start to wilt get like a gallon picher that you would put coolade in or something like that fill it up with water and but the lettice in there, never freeze them.

Yeah we figured out that you dont freeze them several years ago when we had our green iguana. We just thought maybe there was a way to keep them fresh for longer than a week.
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Ricky and Staci
1 male Albino Leopard Gecko ( Violent Jay)
2 Female Jungle Leopard Geckos (Sasha and Lil' Bit)
1 Juvenile Snow Leopard Gecko(unnamed)
1 Juvenile High Yellow Leopard Gecko (unnamed)
1 Juvenile High Tang Leopard Gecko (Profit)
1 Juvenile Bearded Dragon ( Rosalita)
1 Box Turtle (tooter)
1 1/2 dachshund 1/2 Rat Terrier (Dot)
2 Daughters ( Destani and Haliee)

well the way i said they should last like a month at least that is the longest i have them last.

There are a few different ways i have stored greens in the past. How long they last really depends on how fresh they are when bought. Lately I have been having a hard time finding greens that are not already wilted or rotting at the store, which is really annoying. It seems now that i am further south, the green quality is crappier compared to when I lived up north. These are also greens I don't expect to be grown locally either.

Anyway, with fresh greens they can keep good for up to two weeks with either method mentioned below. However the older greens get their nutrient value starts to deteriorate. Maybe 10-15% can't remember the exact percentage.

Freezing greens tends to result in a mush. Leafy greens are just too delicate to take the freezing process. Denser greens are ok, like cabbage, collards, kale. Vegetables such as carrots, peas, beans etc are fine frozen too. However some nutrients are damaged when frozen..thaliamin being the main one so dusting with a multivitamin is good if you use alot of frozen greens.

I typically either store in the bags the greens come in, if they are not soaking wet (stupid store misters). If wet, they rot very fast. These I dry off first, at least shake dry.

Another method I have used is I layer the greens between paper towel after washing them. Doing this way tends to last the longest, but the work to do it with three or four different leafy greens, is a pain. Now I just don't bother.

A third method which almost guarantees you don't' have any wasted greens, is to buy more vegetarian or omnivorous animals LOL. Or start eating really healthy salads Everything you feed your bearded dragon is totally safe to eat yourself, including the bugs but I Certainly understand if you rather substitute the bugs with chicken, pork, beef or fish.
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PHLdyPayne