In article >,
brooklyn1 > wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:55:29 -0500, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > zxcvbob > wrote:
> >
> >> The selection of plain frozen vegetables at the grocery stores is
> >> getting smaller and smaller because they are being pushed out by
> >> "microwave ready" bags of vegetables. One of my favorite frozen vegs is
> >> french cut green beans (they are great in stirfry) but most of the
> >> stores have stopped selling them altogether to make room for microwave
> >> bags of peas or broccoli or whatever (in addition to the regular bags of
> >> peas and broccoli that haven't totally gone away yet.) It's also
> >> getting hard to find frozen okra that's not already breaded.
> >>
> >> Is everybody so busy now that they can't spend the 10 seconds to open a
> >> bag and dump it in a covered glass bowl? Or even just stab a few holes
> >> in the plastic bag? Or are they just stupid?
> >>
> >> Of course the microwave bags are 12 ounces instead of 16, and they cost
> >> a little more on top of that.
> >>
> >> Bob
> >
> >Braise and freeze your own fresh when on sale.
>
> Methinks you mean *blanch*.

Sorry, yes I did mean Blanch.
>
> I've never seen those microwave bags for stand alone frozen veggies,
> however I've seen nuke bags/boil in bags of veggie recipes, like a
> blend in a sauce... creamed spinach is common. I often buy huge bags
> of oriental stir fry blends that contain enough pouches of frozen
> sauce to treat the entire bag... I sometimes save a few sauce pouches
> for ramen... the pouches are like 6 ounces and warn not to nuke, but
> to soften in hot tap water. Walmart and Sam's Club has a huge
> selection of bulk frozen veggies at good prices... I have to control
> myself not to buy more than I can fit in my freezer space.

So get a bigger freezer. <g>

Saves on gas and now that that is going up again, it's a real factor.
IMHO the cost of fuel is what drove us into this recession in the first
place. Now it's going to happen all over again and make it worse...
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