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:)
That great. I do the same thing occasionally, but I chop mine by hand. That food processor would really be nice!
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.
How clueless am I? I had no idea you could do that in a food processor, now I want one. Great tip!
What a great buy! I love to keep extra peppers and onions in my freezer. It makes cooking so much easier.
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.
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
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!