"Thelma Roslyn Lubkin" > wrote

> Nancy Young > wrote:

> : carrots. If I want the thick ones, the kind I like for pot roast or
> : stew, I have to buy the gigunda bag, a lifetime supply.
>
> My markets have good-sized unbagged carrots. I usually buy
> only three or four at once since I don't use many carrots.

Only unbagged carrots I ever see are the ones with the leaves
still attached, and while gorgeous, they aren't very big, either.

> I am reminded that I recently visited my kids in California
> and found that their local supermarket carried only the enormous
> varieties of onion: I'd need to make three meals to use up one
> of them...and the [non-organic, not even 'cage free'] jumbo
> eggs that I buy for $1.19 a dozen were selling for $3.99.

I had to laugh at your description of the onions in California. Went
food shopping in San Diego a couple of times, the size of the
produce was hilarious. Green peppers the size of a cantelope.
Etc. Try stuffing one of those, feed a family of 4.

nancy