Canned vegetable prices... latest paradigm

No berating from me, I'm in the same boat, lol! The best price I've seen advertised around here is at Reasor's (a small local chain) at 5/$3.00, or 60 cents a can. I'm headed to Aldi's tomorrow to see what theirs are and stock up at one or the other before it gets any worse.

2/$1 is the best I've found around here since Spring. Associated Grocer stores had them at 39 cents last Apr. or May, but I haven't seen those prices since. If I were you, I'd go fer it at 2/$1, especially if you can get name brands.

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HyVee has corn and green beans for $.39 ea this week. Other than that, 2/$1 is about as good as I've seen lately.

Dave

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This thread is timely for me.
I have to go buy for the Boy Scouts food drive tomorrow.
It gives me an idea what I'll find out there.
I don't buy many canned veggies.
I'm thinking of actually trying to coerce the manager into giving me a break on some items!
Wish me luck!

Aldi beats everyone around here.I think they are 40cents a can.We raise a garden so we seldom buy veggies.

Canned goods are 14.5 oz now, and if I am not mistaken that includes the liquid. So maybe 10 oz of actual veggies in the can? Frozen are still 16 oz packages except the "steam in" packaging for the most part. And that is all veggies, no liquid. So I buy frozen, I think they are a better buy and the quality is better. I understand wanting canned veggies for pantry stocking, but if you just want the most bang for your buck look at frozen. Last good recent sale I saw was .59 for 16 oz frozen bags of Hy Vee brand.

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Hard (but not impossible) to imagine anyone being so uppity, "berating" anyone who buys canned vegs, for whatever reason.

Most of the ones we get are vegatables and water

We had too much water and then none, so our garden stunk this year, also.

DW does the shopping, but I would think canned goods would be going up, just like verything else.

Today, At Wal Mart and Brookshires in closest town, most cans of regular size were .68 to .86 a can. This isn't counting the specials. I'm going to another town tomorrow to get some things and will see what HEB prices are running here.
ED

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So making a suggestion is uppity? Sorry you took it that way, it was only intended to be helpful.

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My opinion has always been similar to Mo Cows. When discussing most bang for the buck, if you have the freezer space, my math has always worked out to buying the frozen veggies. That and I like the taste of frozen better than store bought canned. (Just my opinion) Though everyone's situation is different and some would rather store in a pantry without worrying about a loss of electricity ruining their food. In those cases, canned would be better.

I will have to work out the direct cost comparison between the 2 again. May end up changing my mind again about which one I like.

I would much rather have my home canned over any bought, though like some here, I didn't get much anything out of the garden

I didn't really see where you, or anyoneone else in this thread, was actually berating Texican, for his canned goods purchase.

My response was in reference to his OP, about being "berated".

No offense was meant.

Texican

If I may ask - What is the source of your water - what keeps you from getting water to the garden?

We use rain we are blessed with but by July at the latest we have to run a genny and pump 700 feet up grade to storage tanks. My goal is to one day get a cystern in to catch rain,

Rick, the garden is 40' higher than the lake... I did get a 4Hp trash pump this spring, for the wildfire threat, and to keep the orchard alive. I watered the garden (half an acre) every other day, a good soaking, but nothing would grow... it was a hundred hereabouts already in April, and no ground moisture at all.

A greenhouse is in my future... next to the house. I've been thinking about breaking some virgin ground 'below' the lake, where there's always some ground moisture seeping through... trouble is, a good rain in a normal year puts it all underwater. Toyed with the idea of making a rice crop there.

On the frozen vegetables being a better buy, that may be true... but freezer space is precious. We currently have two full sized iceboxes and four working freezers... the freezers are at least 80% full all the time, with meat and cheeses... high protein/caloric foods. I do keep enough canning equipment/supplies on hand to can all that excess meat, if we get in a long term grid out scenario (more than a week).

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Thanks for clarifying! I thought you took it as "uppity" to suggest frozen instead of canned. "What we have here is failure to communicate" a la Cool Hand Luke.

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Another vote here for frozen, if possible.
Can get get 2lb bags for $1 when they're on sale.
Plus seems like they go a lot further than canned vegetables.
Have seen canned green beans going for 33¢ for Thanksgiving.
Usually canned is between 60¢ and 75¢ now, if lucky get the 2/1$.


p.s. How the heck did I miss the second page?

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We had the Frys/Kroger buy-10-for-discount to 49c sale here too last week. I made several trips there with several round trips each time to mildly stock up on those Del Monte brand cans. Some of the stuff is generally pretty pricey, ie, spinach, carrots, mixed vegs, green beans, as well as the usual potatoes, corn, peas. Looked clearly less than at WalMart so that makes it one to look over for me. We just don't produce near enough from hobbyist-level container gardening to do serious home canning.

Aldi has some a little less than .50 per can & usually of good quality. Canned fruit of any kind is around .80 even at Aldi.

Garden failure here due to extreme heat and (@1-*$!!!) rabbits eating sweet potato vines, green beans and cole crops. Heat prevented good pollinization on the sweet corn. I don't have freezer space for bags of frozen veggies either but I watch sales and buy frozen veggies too. Pop them into the dehydrator, vac seal in extra quart jars and I'm good to go. Rehydrated, they taste just like they'd been cooked from frozen state. Three things though--you must own a dehydrator of some sort, you must own a vac sealer that has a jar attachment and you have to remember to soak the dried veggies in time for dinner.

MOgal, very good tip. I may start making a point to watch for frozen veggie sales, I've always thought the price on many of those per unit weight look very economical. Plus, we do have a dehydrator, vac sealer, jar attachment and tube, and supply of empties.

DryHeat, I guess I was a bit over the top saying you MUST have a dehydrator and a vac sealer plus attachments but I have found that commercial or homegrown dehydrated products stay fresher tasting longer in a low O2 container. Tomatoes in particular will oxydize, turn black and taste nasty if not vac-sealed. Sometimes they do anyway, depending on variety.

Another thing you might find helpful is measure out what the package says is a portion and dry it on a tray by itself. After the product is dry, measure it again so you know an equivalent moist:dry when you're ready to use it. I usually mark the lid with that info. I save recycled canning lids for vac sealing in jars if the sealing compound is sound. And I do store with a ring on the jar, something I don't do with canned foods. If the vac seal fails, the ring will keep the lid in place and protect the contents from mice.