We also don't have the problem of leftover avocado in my house. Each and every one of the 5 of us loves it. Which is a great thing for me, cause then I don't overeat it.

Even when I make guacamole WITH lemon juice and by some miracle there is a little leftover I find it doesn't keep very long - even with the pit in it. The lemon juice trick over the cut avocado I haven't had much success with either. But hey, it's worth a shot I suppose.

At those prices and given the fact that some just might go to waste, you've really got to think if this food is worth it for you on a regular basis. Perhaps, this would be a great food to eat when you go out. Lots of places I know of now are making great sandwiches with avocado and fantastic salads as well.

I eat avocado once or twice a week with my lunch--I make a particularly delicious wrap with salmon, avocado and some pico de gallo. Yum! I usually squirt some lemon juice over the leftover avocado and then wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. It gets a bit brown around the edges, but it is just fine for a week or two. You can turn the rest into guacamole, instead, but you still need the lemon juice, the light plastic wrap and a willingness to eat browned avocado :)

:lol: Just read this thread after I ate 1/4 avocado for lunch. I love them with just a little bit of ff sesame ginger salad dressing. I am another who could just sit and eat one with a spoon, but I don't (anymore!). I usually have it in a salad, or on a sandwich, or today along with some salmon and a hb egg (cleaning leftovers out of the fridge :) ) My DH will not eat them, so when I do buy one, I'm committed to eating the whole thing, so I have it 3-4 days in a row, then not for another few weeks.

I think the key to the lemon juice trick it to make sure you leave the pit in and don't remove the little stem piece either (if you can help it. I do this and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap without problems.

My hand has healed since my avocado/knife incident (trying to get the pit out)! DH and I love them in our southwest salads, but the kids don't like them at all. I try to buy small ones so I don't have leftovers because a leftover avocado just sits and calls my name! Once I took a tiny bit of tuna (like a 3 ounce can) and drained it and put it in the avocado half and ate that for lunch. Yum!

Originally Posted by malinakrome:

The avocado advice is helpful, it is hard though because no one in my family eats it but me so I feel so much would be wasted. How do you keep leftover avocado fresh? Or do you just toss it? At 1.50 - 2.00 a piece around here I would hate to throw it!

This is one of the reasons I don't buy them as often as I'd like to. No one else but me will eat them and I usually only eat 1/2 at a time, then I've got another half that usually sits until I have to pitch it out. The half that I don't eat right away, however, I leave the pit in just in case I decide to use it for something else and then put it in the fridge. I'm real picky about my avocados, though, I like them room temperature, not cold. So once they go into the fridge, 9 times out of 10 I don't eat the rest of it.

I count my lettuce too, my cucumber, etc. Though I never even thought of my supplements! Darn. Now I have to figure that out LOL.

Ketchup is normally around 20 cals per tablespoon, which can definately add up. Mustard is supposed to only be five, though.

I too love avacado, but no one else around me eats it, so I do end wasting quite a bit when I buy one. But I only used about a TBspoon per serving.

I'm the only one in my house that will eat avocado plain (my SO will eat guacamole, but not an avocado by itself). I usually eat no more than 1 oz per day (which is about one-quarter of a Hass avocado and 50 calories). I try to pick out the smallest avocados I can fine.

Generally I leave the skin on the avocado and just cut away one-fourth of the fruit at a time, leaving the pit intact. Then I put the part that I'm not eating (that still has the pit in it) in a ziploc bag and throw it in the fridge. The part exposed to the air will brown, but it still tastes fine. It's a pretty thin layer that turns brown, so you could just cut it off if you don't like it.

When I buy an avocado, I try to make sure I have four meals planned with it (e.g., 4 lunches) so that I'll use the whole thing in a week or so.

And I count all my veggies, but I'm pretty fast and loose with lettuce and radishes. I suspect that my dinner salad has more than the cup of lettuce I count for it and I know it has more than the ounce of radishes I count. It's stupid; lettuce and radishes have so few calories, I don't know why I don't just count them accurately. Everything else (including cucumbers, spinach, and definitely any fruit) I weigh and count accurately.