Another pet peeve of mine

[ozark]

I don't do much cooking but I do like to make a good salad pretty ogten. To do this I go shopping for the vegetables and find that they have everything in packages. You buy a package of about a half dozen vegies and you have enough ingredients to feed a family of ten a good sized salad. Naturally since it is just my wife and I and since we are both small eaters most of what I buy has to be thrown away. It will keep in the refrig a few days but unless you want a big salad every day there is still a waste. I wish they would put it out and let us purchas the amount we need for the meal we plan. But they are there to sell it and could care how little is eat. Any comments to help me change the world?
What brought this to mind is visiting with family members who live in Germany and I am told they can buy one stalk of brockley or calaflower or whatever. Ozark

[whyohe]

i have seen some grow there own in half wooden barrels. get a tomato plant, a bell pepper plant, and a package of of lettuce seeds and plant near house. me and the wife run into same thing. but since we both work we dont have time to tend to plants.

[Buckrub]

Dunno, Ozark......both our grocery stores have a produce section.....I can buy one potato or one red pepper, whatever. They have a few packages, but you can buy singles.

Maybe the Leslie SuperCenter is just not well stocked!!

But.....your point is valid. It's just two of us also, and TOO MANY things are packaged in big bulk and we waste it. Sometime back, groceries became a 'convenience item' and that mattered way more than what additives were in it to preserve it, or how much salt it had in it it, or sugar, or anything else.

Now they are swinging back the other way......telling us we're fat and that we can only have X and Y to eat, the rest is 'not good for us'. Big Brother knows what's best, right? And what's best is the ONLY thing you can have, you don't get to choose, right? That's good, right?

Right?

I know in Chicago, you can walk to a small store and buy one loaf of bread (not wrapped, just baked) and one stalk of celery, etc........we spent a few weeks doing that one time.

Course, we couldn't shoot river otters out our window up there..................so........there's always trade-offs!

[chuck41]

Down here we have dandelions growing in the yard. You can go out and cut enough of them for just a salad for two and don't even have to go to the Leslie SuperCenter. (Of course in my yard you can cut enough for a family of 27.)

[ozark]

i am slow to catch on. Spent all morning looking for the Leslie Supermarket without luck. Then it dawned on me what you guys meant. Many grows gardens and you are calling them Leslie supermarkets. When it gets dark I will gather all I want in the amount I want and my plan is to have what is called a wilted salad. Cut lettuce, green onions, radishes, and put them in a bowl. Heat a bit of bacon greese and pour over it hot followed by some heated vinigar poured in the hot skillet and poured over that. Eat with corn bread and problem solved. No waste and what little my wife and I eat surely they wont mind. Speak to you later from the hereafter or maybe the hospital. Ozark.

[chuck41]

Shucks, if I had known you were looking for a wilted salad I would have recommended the local dumpster.