Hello friends! It has been a long time since my last report. For that, I'm truly sorry and I do apologize to you. For this report, I'll tell you my experience that I've get after living separated from my family. Please enjoy my report.

This has been 3 months for me to live by myself. Due to tight schedule and lack of cooking equipment, I often buy fast food. This new habit brings me to hospital twice and currently I still have to deal with my digesting instruments T_T. So, for the sake of recovery, I force myself to prepare my own meal. Actually, it is very simple. My diet is boiled vegetable, plain rice and boiled egg. But currently, I have no refrigerator to keep my vegetable. Frankly, I should admit that sometimes when I am quite lazy to cook, I often neglect the vegetable. Next morning, I find them spoiled. It is such as a waste, and then I feel guilty.

 

A few days ago, when I sadly stared my vegetable, suddenly I remember vegetable sellers in my hometown. They put vegetable in water pot and the vegetable still fresh for the next few days. Then, I immediately cut the unused mineral water bottle to be a container. After that, I filled the container with water and put the vegetable on. It needed 6 – 8 hours for the vegetable to be fresh and stop rotting, so the next day, my vegetable had been recover and ready to be cooked.

At that time, I bought kangkung or Inpomoea Aquatica, a popular vegetable in Southeast Asia and watercress. Their habitats are watery soil, riverside and lakeside. Due to that fact, they are easy to be stored without refrigerator.

Beside them, there are similar fruits and vegetable. Some of them are tomatoes and banana. I store tomatoes in my room without any kind of storing method. I find that they can still be fresh for 2 weeks but the first week is the best time to eat. For banana, I only need to store without any locked container, because locked container makes them spoiling rapidly.

The point I get from those vegetables is basic characteristic. Every fruit and vegetable has their own characteristic. Whether they need freezing or not. Knowing the characteristic can help us to store them correctly so we will not waste them. However, storing in refrigerator is better than this way, because it cannot be denied that refrigerator can prolong the freshness longer than storing without them. But, this way is not bad either. For me who do not have refrigerator or people who want to save the energy, storing vegetables and fruits without refrigerator can be an option.


The first picture below is the time when I had just put the vegetable on the pot.

The second time is the next morning after the first picture.