Login / RegisterM&M Meat Shops pre-diced onions can save you some tears
Hands up if you like chopping onions. Anyone? Anyone? Frozen, pre-diced onions from M & M Meat Shops (various locations) can save you some tears. This new product is super-convenient because you can dip into a bag as necessary—great for those times when you want just a bit of onion for a dish but can’t be bothered to peel a whole one. It also simplifies barbecue season for the hamburger crowd: pour out as much chopped onion as you need and fry it up from frozen. A 750-gram bag sells for $3.49.
This is hella smart idea. No preservatives other than the freezing process, I assume?
I can't tell you how many onions I've thrown out that have gone bad waiting to be used.
I had to double-check the date stamp on this post. Nothing new about these at all; M&M has had them for years.
Not that I would ever buy them at what works out to about $4.65/kg (or $2.11/lb), when I can buy them fresh individually for $1.08/kg (49c/lb) or less — i.e., under 1/4 of the cost — at the neighbourhood produce store.
That means I could buy up to about 3.2 kg of fresh onions for less than the cost of this 0.75 kg bag and I'm still saving money even if a few of them spoil and get thrown out. Mind you, as a singleton I only buy them 2 or 3 at a time — just enough to last a week or two — so I don't even generate that much waste in the first place.