if you use for stir fries and things, you can chop, bag and freeze and just throw in the frozen bits when you need them. we do this with fresh capsicum all the time during summer when the plants are giving lots of them - freeze them chopped up ready for cooking, then drag out what we want when we want them. we use a lot of frozen capsicum and it still holds the taste - is great in things like fried rice, stir fries etc