More reasons to love Foodsavers

This cilantro was purchased Oct 28 and immediately sealed in a vacuum canister. I opened it last night. Can you imagine cilantro lasting 1 day short of a month and all it has is a couple of yellow leaves? I cannot tell you how much liquid cilantro I've dumped in my compost before I bought my Foodsaver.
I bought this lettuce the week before Thanksgiving 2007. No! I didn't open it last night but I did open it (by the photo timestamp) Dec. 22. That's a month! Nothing brown but the stem where I'd already cut some leaves.
Leaves require a canister, not a vacuum bag and you are NOT to wash them first. I'll try cilantro and lettuce in the same canister next time. This will be handy when all my lettuces are ready to harvest at once.

I bought mine at Costco after researching and hearing owners discuss them for a year and saw their price drop. I realized later it was $129 only because a new model was coming out but it was a good deal and included a huge roll of plastic to seal and 3 sizes of containers. The 1/2 qt size fell out of the fridge and cracked in two a month later and the 1.5 qt size suddenly has a crack one year later (sure no vacuum packing with an opening in the container...).

I've since bought a set of 3 square, squat 24 oz containers that are good because they're stackable in the fridge. I don't have to eat leftovers every day when I do a mass cook-in because they'll keep for much longer than a week. One thing doesn't keep a week: bread with no preservatives - but it does keep freshly soft for 4-6 days.