One of the goals of my Costco run last week was to get some frozen vegetables. Since the pandemic, grocery stores seem to have gone more towards pre-packaged vegetables, as opposed to pick-your-own, and I end up with a crisper full of vegetable soup before I can eat them.
I hate wasting food.
Since I have a 17-cubic-foot freezer, I decided that bulk
and frozen is the way to go. So I slapped down $50 for three bags’ worth,
partly based on recos in the Costco sub on Reddit.
(For comparison, $50 at Wegmans would get me three containers
of mushrooms and an 8oz package of haricots verts, none of which I could pick
for myself out of bins.)
First out of the chute was the Provençale Vegetables; I had
them as a side for salmon with rice on Thursday, and hokey smokes! Spread them
out on a pan with a splash of olive oil in the toaster oven—so good I considered
making a second serving.
(Sheet pan and vegetable mélange are coming up soon on the rota.)
And that’s my gratitude for today: that having the freezer makes it possible for me to solve the veg intake/food waste problem, and that it turns out to be delicious.
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