We stopped at a farmstand today and as is normal for me wherever I shop, I look around for clearance, discards, discontinued, etc items.
While looking around at the farmstand I found a 'last chance' section. The items on the shelf were damaged or past their prime and were half price. That's where I found these carrots ...
I felt of them and decided that they were still useable. We finished our shopping and headed to the check-out counter but instead of charging us 50% off the original price they gave them to us free of charge along with this cantaloupe that had a ding in it ...
The ding was very minor, and we enjoyed it with our main meal of the day after we got home.
It was delicious and there is plenty to enjoy over the next few days as well!
What about those slightly limp and discolored carrots?
I turned them into 8 pints of carrots for our pantry. There wasn't anything wrong with any of them that sitting in a bowl of water for a little while didn't take care of!
For such a time as this, we need to check out the 'discards' wherever we shop!
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Great find! Those carrots are like money in the bank!
ReplyDeleteWe found fresh one pound bags of Fresh Express coleslaw mix 3/$2 at the salvage grocery store. Then I submitted my receipt to coupons.com which made the price 3/$1. I am going to make freezer slaw to tuck away for later. Today we bought almost ten pounds of chicken thighs for .68 a pound. I was really excited about that deal!
Lana, the coleslaw mix is an excellent buy, but you hit it out of the park with the chicken!
DeleteI totally agree with you on this. I shop at a variety of stores, depending on where I'll be and what I need. While some stores don't mark down their produce, ever, two of my stores do. Meijer will mark down their prepared fruits and bagged/pre-cut vegetables. I won't go thru a whole melon before it goes bad, but I will occasionally purchase pre-cut on mark-down. At Berkots, they regularly have a cart with marked down produce, typically packaged up and for $1 or less. I'll grab the over-ripe bananas for making bread, peppers if I have something on the menu where a little shrivel won't matter, potatoes that are irregular shape, or half-cuts of cabbage or small heads of lettuce. It still has value in my household, and selling it at a discount is still valuable to the store. Win-Win.
ReplyDeleteLori, you just never know what you'll find but by having a pantry building mindset, I can always come up with a way to preserve it that we will use!
DeleteWhat an excellent deal for you, and for the farmer, who found someone who would use them.
ReplyDeleteLaurie, we feel really blessed!
DeleteWe found a few deals at the orchard yesterday. Broccoli crowns were $1.79 per pound , cucumbers were 3 for a$1, green peppers were 40 cents source. We bought 3 pounds of broccoli, ,3 cukes, and 10 large peppers. The total came to $10.37. We belong to their loyalty club so we got $5 off, making that purchase $5.37. We also were able to get 20 lbs. of peaches for $1.89 per pound. In the grocery store they're $3 per pound. So far I 've frozen 5 quarts, made a peach cobbler,and have more to process tomorrow. We're finding better prices going directly to the orchard and farms
ReplyDeletefor most of our needs if we're not going it ourselves. We are so thankful that this is available to us and we can support our local agriculture.
Cookie, you got a lot for $5.37!!! We don't have many orchards near us, we have to go north to visit orchards of any size.
DeleteI buy "ugly" produce often at our local farmers market. My mouth never cares whether it was a pretty vegetable or not.
ReplyDeleteAnne, I love your name for 'last chance' foods!!! Just because it's 'ugly' doesn't mean it's not good.
DeleteI did this all the time at one point and these days I'm back at it, looking for stickers marking down produce that is a little marred or dinged, marked down bakery items, meat etc. We opted to buy two packets of 10 formed hamburger patties last weekend that were marked down to $3 per package! That was two pounds of meat in the package. It was a little pale looking the way beef will get as the blood drains from it but they tasted good and weren't quite out of date, just fine to bring home and cook a few fresh, then freeze the rest.
ReplyDeleteTerri, it really good skill to practice, isn't it!
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