I usually don’t buy large amounts of veggies at a time, unless I can get a good deal on them. My last grocery shopping trip found me with 2 bags of onions and 8 green peppers!! I already had a partial bag of onions at home, and 2 green peppers. I almost didn’t get them, but the deal was just too good, and I had a little extra room in my budget.
What in the world was I going to do with so many veggies?!
Insert handy dandy food processor.
I seeded the green peppers and threw them into my food processor. Chopped it up for a few seconds, and bagged them up in freezer bags in “cookable” portions.
I ended up with about 10 little baggies of green peppers all for $1.78…or .18 cents a bag!!<br>
I removed the outsides of the onions, cut it in half and threw them in the food processor. I already had one bag of onions on my list for the week, so I just chopped up one bag of onions. It yielded 10 little baggies of chopped onions, in 1 cup portions. For these onions it only cost me .59, or .06 a bag!
This is much cheaper than using those dehydrated onion pieces, and can be used almost interchangably. You end up with almost twice as much onions for a 1/5 of the price.
This definitely works for me! A little time here, will save tons of money later!
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Good for you! I’m reeeeally wanting a food processor. I keep telling my husband I NEED one to save us money:)
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That great. I do the same thing occasionally, but I chop mine by hand. That food processor would really be nice!
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Oooh, I had the most amazing stuffed pepper recipe I was going to pass along to you (we only get to have it when peppers are cheap!), but it won’t work with chopped up peppers. Well, I guess it could be modified … hmmm … let me know if you want it! It’s spicy, though, so my kids don’t like it.
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How clueless am I? I had no idea you could do that in a food processor, now I want one. Great tip!
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What a great buy! I love to keep extra peppers and onions in my freezer. It makes cooking so much easier.
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I do the same thing with onions. Although I chop them by hand so I don’t usually do as many at once. It’s great when you can just pull them out of the freezer!
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I’m doing more and more of this all the time…makes dinner time so much easier during the week! Awesome job.
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Truly, I only grow Green peppers in the garden, for freezing. If you have a bumper crop year, it can be so cheap! Onions, to grow I found harder, but the local farmers market sells each of these really cheap too.
I have a ton of green peppers in the freezer, in snack size baggies, from the summer still! I ran out of the onions though….
holi
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Now you’ve inspired me to actually use our food processor! I’m always dumping in frozen green peppers and onions into food and this is much better than the frozen bags I buy that are already pre-cut!
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