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There will always be articles filled with gloom and doom, we have to learn not to believe everything we read.
My heart goes out to people in CA who make their living from any form of agriculture, be it meat, produce or anything else. Let's hope the rains will come soon. As for avocados, we are still getting plenty in our stores at a reasonable price. In fact they have been on sale lately at WalMart. I don't shop at WMart often but for a couple of reasons have been there this past couple of weeks and found them for .68 each. Here, that is cheap. Yes, I believe they are from Mexico.
There will always be articles filled with gloom and doom, we have to learn not to believe everything we read.
My heart goes out to people in CA who make their living from any form of agriculture, be it meat, produce or anything else. Let's hope the rains will come soon. As for avocados, we are still getting plenty in our stores at a reasonable price. In fact they have been on sale lately at WalMart. I don't shop at WMart often but for a couple of reasons have been there this past couple of weeks and found them for .68 each. Here, that is cheap. Yes, I believe they are from Mexico.
The last ones I bought were 4/$1 for the smaller ones. In that 90% of the produce from the western states of Mexico go past of us, you can always seen to get a ton of avocados cheap.
The last ones I bought were 4/$1 for the smaller ones. In that 90% of the produce from the western states of Mexico go past of us, you can always seen to get a ton of avocados cheap.
Haven't seen them for a quarter, but Aldi's has the small ones for not much more. I do like the little ones, with only 2 of us, they are perfect, but it seems 1/2 the time when I buy them, by the time they ripen they are spoiled. Being raised in S.CAl I have a pretty good idea how to get them ripe, so I don't think it is anything I am doing.
Haven't seen them for a quarter, but Aldi's has the small ones for not much more. I do like the little ones, with only 2 of us, they are perfect, but it seems 1/2 the time when I buy them, by the time they ripen they are spoiled. Being raised in S.CAl I have a pretty good idea how to get them ripe, so I don't think it is anything I am doing.
We started having that problem with the avocados we were buying from one of the grocery stores. When we'd go to use a ripe one it would be almost completely brown inside. Even ones that weren't quite ripe would have a lot of brown spots. We never had this problem before, but over the last few months it seemed like just about every avocado from this one store was bad. And it wasn't that they were bruised, they were just bad avocados. So we bought some from another store, and they ripened perfectly. We've been buying avocados from them for about a month now, and haven't had a single bad one. There was even one last week were we thought it felt a little too ripe, but once cut open it looked perfect. If it had come from the other store, it would have probably been black inside from how soft it felt.
And the store that was selling the spoiled avocados had gone up in price in the last few months. They used to always be about 88 cents- $1 but are now $1.25-$1.50. Now we are getting them for just under $1, and sometimes on sale for 3/$1... normal sized avocados, not those small ones that Aldi's sells.
We started having that problem with the avocados we were buying from one of the grocery stores. When we'd go to use a ripe one it would be almost completely brown inside. Even ones that weren't quite ripe would have a lot of brown spots. We never had this problem before, but over the last few months it seemed like just about every avocado from this one store was bad. And it wasn't that they were bruised, they were just bad avocados. So we bought some from another store, and they ripened perfectly. We've been buying avocados from them for about a month now, and haven't had a single bad one. There was even one last week were we thought it felt a little too ripe, but once cut open it looked perfect. If it had come from the other store, it would have probably been black inside from how soft it felt.
And the store that was selling the spoiled avocados had gone up in price in the last few months. They used to always be about 88 cents- $1 but are now $1.25-$1.50. Now we are getting them for just under $1, and sometimes on sale for 3/$1... normal sized avocados, not those small ones that Aldi's sells.
Thanks, I was tempted to get a few of the small ones at Aldi's today but opt for just one at our local grocery store. It was .99 and usually they are very good ones. Yes, we have seen them as high at $1.49 a few times. Being from Ca originally I know when the avocado season is in full swing and that is pretty soon; Dec and Jan are usually the good months. I am not sure about Mexico.
Saw avocados from New Zealand yesterday at the store.
Small to normal size were .33cents and the large ones 1.50.
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