Now that looks Welsh. Glad I didn’t have to learn to spell it as a kid 
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This is a thing about me. I cook for sport. I almost never get “convenience” foods, because I like doing the work.
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If I had the greenmarket as my source, I’d do this. But at the store, I can buy florets when I want to eat them and slaw when I want that. Also, price.
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I can’t do the chopped garlic or chopped ginger.
I freeze the fresh ginger and saw off hunks as needed.
The convenience thing for me lately is to buy corn on the cob semi-husked , to cut down on our green bin and compost. I don’t eat much corn. My DCs eat it pretty much daily. Our fridge is also too small to store 2 dozen ears of unhusked corn on the cob.
Also, I have started buying pineapple peeled and cored. Same price whether it’s peeled or not at one place where I shop. Again, to save compost and green bin space. I know it’s nicer cut fresh, but I’m not the one eating it, and the person eating it doesn’t mind the pre-peeled and cored.
I buy parts of watermelon, because of space constraints, and I’m the main person who likes it.
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Yesterday I was at the farmers market where one can drop off compost. As I approached the big bin to dump my bucketful, there was a guy there stripping off the husks from his newly-purchased corn and dropping them right into the bin.
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Same 3 for me, too.
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We used to have a bin available for husking corn at my indie grocer next to the corn for sale, for as long as I can remember, but municipal Public Health made them take the bin away!
There’s still a bin for removing carrot tops, at the same store. Inconsistent! Also, a sign telling people they can only remove carrot tops if they plan to purchase the carrots. Some psychos had been removing the carrot tops of carrots with tops, that they had no intention of purchasing! 
There are plenty of 5 lb and 10 lb bags of cheaper topless carrots available for purchase, at all times.
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Interesting. The Wegman’s near me used to have a husk bin, pre-pandemic. I haven’t noticed if they still have it.
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I guess it would be bad form to snatch a bunch of discarded carrot tops out of the bin…
I love to make chimichurri out of them.
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Why? One person’s trash is another one’s treasure 
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Every now and then I ask the checker, “Guess the impulse buy”. I pretty much only do this when I’m not buying a lot and there truly is an impulse buy on the belt and also when the store isn’t terribly busy.
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I’ve asked for tops for feeding chickens and got a bunch of boxes for free. So…ask.
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I have friends that raise rabbits and they did the same thing with similar results. They were careful to ask when the store was not busy, which may help.
I think most grocers hate to see food go to waste, in large part because they know just how much still gets thrown into the dumpsters. I am food bank donor and I know the grocers go out of their way to get us un-opened cases of food and to advise us of what is on sale and what food banks run out of fairly frequently.
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Picky eating thread: my dog’s better your dog because he’s eating kennel ration, my dog’s better than yours.
Or, I’m a better parent because my kid eats everything…I’m a better parent than you are and I sure want you to know it. And if you were only as good a parent as I am, your kid will always eat everything.
It’s not a competition, whether you are a parent or a non parent or grandparent. Looking at other people’s grocery carts and judging, that you are better, is … dare I say, “picky”? And not warranted? Because you don’t know them or their children or their circumstances? Or anything about who they are buying for and why?
Non parents are really good at criticizing people who are parents. Parents are also really good at criticizing other parents, even when they know nothing about the possibly traumatic backgrounds of the children, who might have been adopted well past infancy.
I was amazed at seeing young women with three full grocery carts while visiting friends in Salt Lake City. My friends are not Mormon, and I didn’t know much about Mormons at the time. I was informed that some Mormons are required to keep a certain amount of non perishable food supplies at home at all times.
Also, sometimes those grocery carts are full of stuff that volunteers are buying for group homes, or other circumstances.
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Making oneself familiar to a store Mgr has its perks and you are spot on regarding the stores waste issues.
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Today my cart said that Mr Autumm2 is a. Dry happy guy because frosted mini wheats were finally on sale and I he also scored some Raisin Bran crunch. Little one got honey bunches of oats. Yes I bought 18 boxes of cereal today. That should keep mornings happy for a little while round here
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Our fur babies can be expensive!
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