Reply #43: Yes, I know - and I am working in that direction for frozen ones [View All]

[csziggy]

But the health food store has a poor selection of frozen vegetables and they are way over priced. The supermarket chain I go to has their own brands which are pretty good, though not organic all they have in the basic vegetables are the veggies themselves. At my age I will take a chance on pesticide residue and the like. After all, I grew up around the plants where they were producing that stuff, so I had plenty of exposure growing up!

Last year I was enrolled in a community supported agriculture program with a local organic gardener and I am still using up some of the vegetables we got from her that I blanched and froze. But that was a big problem for me since I had surgery in June and some times could not process the vegetable before they went bad. The CSA was not a good match for us - far too much of the kind of produce neither of us like and not enough of what I do like and use.

Once I use up the old vegetables, I plan to visit the local farmer's market on a regular schedule and get back in that routine. But it will be another month or so before the freezer is empty of old stuff!