Fucking tomato ban...

[Jenne]

Most of our food budget goes towards buying fresh veggies and fruits week after week.  We eat canned sometimes and then frozen even more rarely, but we eat a LOT of fresh stuff here.  I never buy frozen meals, unless they are potstickers.

That being said, all the co-ops here are out of town--I'd use up too much gas buying into them because there's so many farmer's markets around SD, esp this time of year.  Which reminds me--better hit one of those this Sunday.

[Triple Zero]

FYI, frozen veggies keep way more of the nutrients and flavour than canned food.

[trippinprincezz13]

FYI, frozen veggies keep way more of the nutrients and flavour than canned food.

I do have to agree that while I try to buy fresh as often as possible, if I'm feeling lazy, want to have emergency back ups, or the fresh stuff just isn't looking good, I prefer to buy frozen over canned. The frozen stuff, while not always great, usually looks and tastes better than the canned. The canned stuff just always seems so soggy and blah to me. I'll buy canned tomatoes but that's about it.

[Jenne]

I don't like eating the canned shit, I just cook with it.  And usually dishes that by the time the veggies are in and done, it doesn't really matter (well, yes, it does, but you know what I mean) where they came from.  I don't like using frozen because of the reconstitution afterward.  Maybe I'm just not used to it *shrug* but I HATE frozen green beans after they are thawed.  I like me fresh or canned, period.  Weird, I know.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Unless you cook the hell out of them, frozen green beans are definitely not all that great. Cooking the hell out of them achieves a similar effect to canned.

Pretty much every other veggie, though, is better frozen than canned.

[Triple Zero]

of course it also differs whether you froze them yourself or bought them frozen in the store. the industrial freezing process is much better at keeping the flavours and nutrients than just flopping it in a baggie in a below-zero freezer.

[trippinprincezz13]

Maybe I'm just not used to it *shrug* but I HATE frozen green beans after they are thawed.  I like me fresh or canned, period.  Weird, I know.

Eh, that's true. The frozen green beans are pretty gross, but pretty much everything else I've had frozen is better than the canned. I don't like canned or frozen green beans, but we don't have them very often, so when I get them I get fresh.

[PeregrineBF]

Frozen peas are great. Like veggie ice cream dots...
but fresh everything whenever possible. Except pickles and such, sort of ruins the point.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Frozen peas are great. Like veggie ice cream dots...
but fresh everything whenever possible. Except pickles and such, sort of ruins the point.

FRESH PICKLES HOT OFF THE VINE!

[Triple Zero]

i still kind of wonder what a non-picled pickle (gherkin) tastes like .. i've never seen one. i guess something between a small cucumber and a zuccini?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Exactly like a small cucumber.

[Nast]

Interestingly enough, there's also a variety of cucumber called the Mexican sour gherkin that has a particularly sour flavor, so it already tastes half-pickled. But without the pickling, of course.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow, really? I want to try that!

[Nast]

I've never tasted one, but they look really cute:

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

in case anyone cares, the ban was on big tomatoes, not the little grape tomatoes, or the cherry tomatoes that come on a vine, so you can still eat tomatoes and not die