Tinned Vegetables Cheaper?

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

Yes you can definitely find fresh vegetables for good prices here. They seem to be more expensive than in Europe (sorry, I don't know about Canada) but not too bad either. I just think all the food (except junk) is little more expensive here anyway.

One place you may want to check is the "international stores" like Global Foods Market (but I don't think they are all over the US... you'll probably have to find out which stores are in your area). I have noticed that some of the common vegetables are less expensive there than in normal groceries stores. Example, I always buy avocados there because I can get at least 2 for the price I'd pay for one elsewhere.

Edited November 29, 2008 by Cecile and Bryan

[Reba 2]

Yeah, I've never been able to figure out why the selection of fruits and veggies is so much less around here than back home. I mean really, the growing season is nearly double that of most of Canada, and yet I can't for the life of me find parsnips or rhubarb on a regular basis around here! And usually whenever I *have* found parsnips, they're old and wobbly. I don't think I saw any rhubarb this year at all. We couldn't even find any seeds or plants to put in our garden for crimeny! It grows like a weed up home, and can't find it here to save a life!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I actually found some rhubarb corms at a nursery earlier this year - they need to be planted in the Spring and I guess I won't get a crop until the following year - if it grows. I suspect that the growing season may just be too hot for rhubarb and possibly parsnips. I actually have a funny story about rhubarb in Krogers. I was looking through the vegetables and saw what I thought was rhubarb. No way, I thought, that's great! I looked at the tag to see the price - and it was identified as swiss chard. Now, I know what swiss chard is like as well and this was definitely not swiss chard. No prices for rhubarb anywhere. I asked a store employee, and he said - oh yeah, that's swiss chard! So, I bought the 'swiss chard' and had several wonderful meals of lovely homemade stewed rhubarb:-). Oh - and Joe had never had rhubarb before in his life and he hasn't really lived in many Northern states, mainly just Southern ones.

Edited November 30, 2008 by Kathryn41

[PlatyPius 5]

Yeah, I've never been able to figure out why the selection of fruits and veggies is so much less around here than back home. I mean really, the growing season is nearly double that of most of Canada, and yet I can't for the life of me find parsnips or rhubarb on a regular basis around here! And usually whenever I *have* found parsnips, they're old and wobbly. I don't think I saw any rhubarb this year at all. We couldn't even find any seeds or plants to put in our garden for crimeny! It grows like a weed up home, and can't find it here to save a life!

That's because rhubarb is one of the most horrible "foods" known to man. It is an offense against nature to eat it, and I think is grounds for removal from the US.

[Marilyn. 340]

rhubarb is awesome.. my mom always had a rhubarb plant....

my hubby had never heard of it and I haven't seen it anywhere

[PlatyPius 5]

You can buy it around here. It's going to be an upper-Midwest-only thing, I'm thinking. For the most part, anyway. I could be wrong, but this seems to be the region for it.

[Reba 2]

My hubby hadn't ever had it either. I did find some either last year or year before that, and I made a strawberry rhubarb pie and he loooooooooved it! Now I can't find it It should be easy enough to grow in the early season or later down here I'd think.

I wonder if I could order it frozen from somewhere on-line...?

Edited November 30, 2008 by Reba

[trailmix 77]

You can buy it around here. It's going to be an upper-Midwest-only thing, I'm thinking. For the most part, anyway. I could be wrong, but this seems to be the region for it.

Honestly, you are right, rhubarb is pretty horrible. That said, put enough sugar on it and i'll eat it

I can only assume it is so popular in the North because it will actually grow there and keep coming back year after year regardless of the weather. Who doesn't have at least 1 rhubarb plant in their back yard in the great white north??

[Flames9_RN 358]

You can buy it around here. It's going to be an upper-Midwest-only thing, I'm thinking. For the most part, anyway. I could be wrong, but this seems to be the region for it.

Honestly, you are right, rhubarb is pretty horrible. That said, put enough sugar on it and i'll eat it

I can only assume it is so popular in the North because it will actually grow there and keep coming back year after year regardless of the weather. Who doesn't have at least 1 rhubarb plant in their back yard in the great white north??

Love Rhubarb pie and crisp!! Raw rhubarb is extremely bitter, but prepared properly it rocks!!

[PlatyPius 5]

You can buy it around here. It's going to be an upper-Midwest-only thing, I'm thinking. For the most part, anyway. I could be wrong, but this seems to be the region for it.

Honestly, you are right, rhubarb is pretty horrible. That said, put enough sugar on it and i'll eat it

I can only assume it is so popular in the North because it will actually grow there and keep coming back year after year regardless of the weather. Who doesn't have at least 1 rhubarb plant in their back yard in the great white north??

Love Rhubarb pie and crisp!! Raw rhubarb is extremely bitter, but prepared properly it rocks!!

If creosote is "prepared properly" it probably tastes halfway decent too. Doesn't mean it should be eaten.

[trailmix 77]

If creosote is "prepared properly" it probably tastes halfway decent too. Doesn't mean it should be eaten.

so true, enough butter and sugar can fix anything, really all other foods are merely vehicles for butter and sugar.

[PlatyPius 5]

If creosote is "prepared properly" it probably tastes halfway decent too. Doesn't mean it should be eaten.

so true, enough butter and sugar can fix anything, really all other foods are merely vehicles for butter and sugar.

This is the correct motorcycle.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

The only thing that bugs me about buying veggies at Aldi is that for some reason they shrink wrap and use those horrible styrofoam plate things. Why do they need to shrink wrap broccoli or squash? Bugs me...but its more than a $1 cheaper for broccoli there than elsewhere in town. We also have a BiLo that is good for a few sale items at least every other week.

Check where they came from. It is usually the sign of a Dutch or Spanish greenhouse. I thought it was a little odd when I lived in Germany to see veggies wrapped too. When I saw peppers here wrapped like that at Meijer, I looked at the country of origin and sure enough, the Netherlands.

[TayL 0]

You can buy it around here. It's going to be an upper-Midwest-only thing, I'm thinking. For the most part, anyway. I could be wrong, but this seems to be the region for it.

Honestly, you are right, rhubarb is pretty horrible. That said, put enough sugar on it and i'll eat it

I can only assume it is so popular in the North because it will actually grow there and keep coming back year after year regardless of the weather. Who doesn't have at least 1 rhubarb plant in their back yard in the great white north??

Love Rhubarb pie and crisp!! Raw rhubarb is extremely bitter, but prepared properly it rocks!!

I LOVE raw rhubarb. My family has three rhubarb patches in our backyard (yes, I'm still in the great white) and ever since I was a tiny child, I've been running out into the backyard all summer long to gnaw on raw rhubarb. I make amazing rhubarb, strawberry rhubarb and rhubarb custard pies. I make stewed rhubarb to put on ice cream as a sauce. I freeze a HUGE amount of rhubarb every summer for use in the winter.

I'd never even IMAGINED that it might be hard to find in the south... That kinda sucks!

[Reba 2]

ok, now I'm craving rhubarb

We used to eat it raw as well. Its a great source of fiber