Onions

Aldi have 3 large brown onions for 69p! 😃

We have always grown our own onions and garlic, so easy and no pesticides

V3ra

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I buy frozen chopped onions. No waste and no painful streaming eyes! 😭

It doesn't say on the page where the onions are grown. Does the pack tell you?

Chopped frozen onions are very convenient but does anyone else find they contain excessive amounts of water & dilute some sauces?

I think that Spain seems to be the leading country for our imported garlic, before China.

Wet weather ruins crops. Dry, hot weather ruins crops. At 99p a kilo you must have had two enormous onions for the price you paid, 1.1 lbs each!

DH had the best onion crop ever we’ve been giving kilos to the neighbours

Notagranny44

I think that Spain seems to be the leading country for our imported garlic, before China.

Yes, there is Spanish garlic in supermarkets but you have to check the label carefully!

I like to keep a bag of frozen fruit ready to put a handful on my porridge. Today in Lidl I asked why they had no stock and was told they have discontinued it till after Christmas. Can any one make any sense of that? I certainly can't. They obviously realise there are other supermarkets available, or are they all conspiring.
Lidl did have bags of brown onions in their special offers display 79p/kg

I'm away this weekend, I'll have a look when I get home and let you know 👍

That was in reply to cc!

Try Aldi - cheaper than Tesco for onions

I buy loose onions and chop and freeze them. Everything is so expensive now and I can’t say I've noticed onions being excessively priced. I do wonder how young families manage, I'm on my own and find it goes up almost weekly.

Allsorts

I buy loose onions and chop and freeze them. Everything is so expensive now and I can’t say I've noticed onions being excessively priced. I do wonder how young families manage, I'm on my own and find it goes up almost weekly.

That's a great idea and much more environmentally friendly. The plastic packaging is my pet hate with frozen veg.

Garlic in the UK makes the best big heads if planted roughly this time of year and harvested in the summer.

Meanwhile it takes up quite a lot of land. We used to grow organic garlic for sale in local shops and the quality of the harvest was always dependent on the weather. If you got a lot of rain at the wrong time it spoiled the look of the bulbs and the preparation/tidying up was labour intensive.

It's probably cheaper to grow somewhere with a warmer (more reliable) summer.
Garlic from the Pyrenees used to be particularly good.

Our allotment has given me enough red and white onions for winter! However due to the strange weather this year we were worried if we were going to get anything at all ! Potatoes were disappointing so we are rethinking for next year! So I assume farmers will be doing the same! Look how may fields were waterlogged this year and it tells you everything! Aldi and Lidl are not as expensive as other supermarkets tbh

So do I, red and white.

@Allira. We buy garlic sent from the Isle of Wight in our local greengrocers

local greengrocers

What's that?

We had three or four, the story of their demise is interesting but not for GN!

I buy my fruit and veg in the market in a local town. Wednesday and Friday there is a fabulous fruit and veg stall in the market square with a dozen other stalls.

Gosh never knew there was such a thing as frozen chopped onions.

Aldi for me every time, cheap as chips.

The problem with both Aldi and Lidl is that they seem to tuck themselves away on inconvenient sites with nothing else on site.

I shop mainly in Waitrose and Sainsbury's because, like the market, they are tucked into town centres and you can do other things at the same time. On Saturday we went into our local town nipped into Sainsbury's, then collected a prescription from the chemist before having lunch out and buying some bread in the market. All within about 300 feet of the car park.

cc

V3ra

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I buy frozen chopped onions. No waste and no painful streaming eyes! 😭

It doesn't say on the page where the onions are grown. Does the pack tell you?

No there is no mention of where the onions are from.

Most supermarkets have frozen chopped onions in stock. My local Waitrose does, and DD buys them variously in her local Saisbury's and Tesco.

I buy chopped frozen onions.