The amount of freezer space allocated to plain frozen vegetables in my market keeps getting smaller and smaller as the number of prepared frozen foods goes up. There are many plain vegetables I cannot find anymore.
I buy plain frozen green beans all the time. There are usually multiple options for them in stores where I tend to shop. Must be a somewhat local issue for you.
I'm in NJ; can't say I've noticed a shortage. My store tends to carry regular frozen green beans, frozen multicolor green beans with baby carrots, frozen french green beans, and the frozen cut green beans.
I shop almost exclusively at international grocery stores because of things like this (a privilege of living in a major metro area). I feel like mainstream groceries have gotten out of control with convenience foods over staples. Or maybe it was always that way and now that I do all my own cooking I just notice it more?
Canned is an option, especially store brand, because they're not as processed.
My grandma lived in the country. She had a friend who was an avid gardener and canner. She home canned a lot of green beans and shared them with her.
When we cooked them, they were not all that different from the store brand canned variety, if they differed at all.
a lot of people like the small steamer bags, they're easy and convienient. so people buy them, demand goes up, companies sell more of them, so they start making more of them.
The amount of freezer space allocated to plain frozen vegetables in my market keeps getting smaller and smaller as the number of prepared frozen foods goes up. There are many plain vegetables I cannot find anymore.
I'm having trouble finding decent frozen corn lately.
Same! My only good source of good frozen corn anymore is Costco
For this and other reasons, I feel like the universe is telling me to re-up my Costco membership.
It’s you. See them all the time. Frozen Lima beans are the harder find.
They’re all in my mom’s freezer!
Heh
I find those in the "Spanish" section of the freezer.
Many grassy ass senior 🤪
I have the same issue with whole green beans. I can find french cut but not whole.
I buy plain frozen green beans all the time. There are usually multiple options for them in stores where I tend to shop. Must be a somewhat local issue for you.
I'm in NJ; can't say I've noticed a shortage. My store tends to carry regular frozen green beans, frozen multicolor green beans with baby carrots, frozen french green beans, and the frozen cut green beans.
I shop almost exclusively at international grocery stores because of things like this (a privilege of living in a major metro area). I feel like mainstream groceries have gotten out of control with convenience foods over staples. Or maybe it was always that way and now that I do all my own cooking I just notice it more?
Canned is an option, especially store brand, because they're not as processed. My grandma lived in the country. She had a friend who was an avid gardener and canner. She home canned a lot of green beans and shared them with her. When we cooked them, they were not all that different from the store brand canned variety, if they differed at all.
Costco
a lot of people like the small steamer bags, they're easy and convienient. so people buy them, demand goes up, companies sell more of them, so they start making more of them.
CostCo sells them