Avocados are a delicious but frustrating fruit.
Despite buying them 'ripe and ready' they remain hard as stone for what seems a lifetime before turning soft, brown and unappealing the moment your back is turned.
A crafty mum has shared her very simple process for ensuring her family have perfect avocados all year round.
The founder of the popular Facebook page 'Slow Cooker Recipes & Tips' revealed she found a way to freeze sliced avocados fresh out of the skin, making them easy to use in meals and sandwiches.
"This is a little trick I've been doing with avocado," she explains.
"I heard that you can buy it frozen, but was never able to find it anywhere. So I thought, 'why not freeze it myself?'. It works amazingly well."
She says you can stop the fruit browning in the freezer but only if you follow her instructions, as reported by the Daily Mail.
After buying a fresh avocado, cut it in half, take the pit out and slice it or cut it into chunks.
Lay it all out on a tray lined with parchment paper and freeze. Remove the frozen slices after one day and put them all into one bag and throw them back in the freezer.
Freezing them separately first prevents the pieces of fruit from sticking together and allows you to use it one slice at a time. Genius.
The mum says they stay green and she throws them in smoothies or lets them thaw and has them in sandwiches.
Other people who had never considered freezing avocados are loving her trick.
"I had no idea it froze," one wrote. "I hate wasting the left over avocado as no one else eats it in my house."
Another said: "This will change my life! I bought frozen avocado and it was horrible."
A third replied: "This is the solution to my ever squishy avocado issues."
