Keeping things in place in a RV is hard enough, but dealing with fruits and vegetables (which are normally round) to keep them fresh and not bruised, is another matter. Anyone knows that piling them into a bowl or box is not good for them when bouncing down the road.
Some fruits and veggies already come packaged in net bags, such as oranges, onions and potatoes, while others do not. So the best thing is to open those kinds of bags properly and carefully when you get them, so that you can save the bag for another use. When you buy other fruits and veggies that don't come in bags, or you only want a few individual pieces, you can put them into your own net bags and hang them up somewhere in your RV or other traveling vehicle.
But here is the trick... finding a place down low in your RV, where they will stay cooler! Everyone knows that heat rises, so the worst place is from a ceiling hook or at a level with upper cabinets. But neither do you want them setting on the floor, where they will get bruised from bouncing in the RV.
The lower in your RV that you can put them, the cooler they will be, so try to find places to hang them where they will be just above floor level, such as from countertop height and down. And don't let the bag swing too much when going down the road, or it can beat the fruit against the cabinets or other side walls and bruise it that way, too. Tie the bag as closely as possible to the contents and then hang it from that point, rather than from the top of the empty space, and it won't be able to swing nearly as much.
If you have to put them in a bowl or other container, try to put some kind of padding between each piece of fruit with some kind of padding that can breathe. In other words, don't use plastic bubble wrap, as that could cause the fruit or veggie to ripen faster and go bad quicker. Us some extra towels. In any RV, extra face towels or dish towels is something you should keep on hand, not because you need them for drying hands or dishes, but because you will need padding... for everything from breakable dishes and pots and pans, to keeping silverware from rattling, to padding fruits and veggies.
And when preparing meals, always check your stock, and figure on using whatever looks like it could go bad. Usually those items are going to be on the bottom of the bag or container, where they are more likely to get crushed or bruised by the stuff putting weight on them.
Most people are already going to know some of the tips I provide on this blog, and most of the tips are just common sense. Still, some people need to be reminded. As one person once told me, "Owning a RV is like owning a house that goes through an earthquake nearly every day!"
How would YOUR "house" hold up to the shaking that a normal RV is already built for?
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