So today's asparagus grew way down south.

Shipping, storage, many middlemen.

Maybe tariffs? Oh no, but he said everything's lower. My oh my.

So my late mother used to always have it with Easter dinner. She made a great cheese sauce to go with it!

but I'm not as big a cheesehead as the rest of my family. Your way sounds better! I think I'll try it next time.

with a white sauce with a hard boiled egg sliced on top of it. Hence, on special occasions I do same. It may sound odd but it is great!

Is mostly grown in South America, and some is from Mexico. It didn’t grow this time of year except in tropical places or South of the Equator.


Chief countries that send asparagus to USA stores

1. Mexico
2. Ecuador
3. Peru
4. Canada (in the spring and summer).

Nearly all of the fresh asparagus in the U.S. is imported. In 2024, for example, the U.S. imported 515.4 million pounds of asparagus, valued at $646.7 million. Of that, almost 155 million pounds (30%) came from Peru.

Though Mexico claims the title of the largest exporter of asparagus to the U.S. — representing roughly two-thirds of U.S. asparagus imports — Peru’s unique location and climate gives it an interesting asparagus superpower over the competition.

Southern Specialties of Pompano Beach, FL notes Peru is an important source of both green and white fresh asparagus because it provides consistent volume of high-quality product almost year-round. The company is a grower, importer, processor and shipper dealing in Peruvian asparagus.

The majority of Mexican imports happen from January to May, according to data from the International Fresh Produce Association.

When it comes to Peru, it also has a constant presence in the market, which only reduces when Mexico reaches its peak production,” the group noted in a late 2024 report. It also pointed out Michigan, the largest domestic producer of asparagus, has a short season from May to June.

Simply put, Peru supplies the U.S. consumer with quality asparagus during a time U.S. is not in production.

MUCH higher tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products!
It may be smart to stock up on canned asparagus! yuck!

The batches are the right size to avoid waste and the sprouts replace lettuce and so on for all of my greens needs
If I want fresh produce, I buy it in season, just like my parents did, when the average family could afford groceries.
It is awful that the healthy food we should be eating is spiraling out of reach, even if you buy local.

what kind of sprouts/seeds do you use?
I used to buy alfalfa sprouts, but they disappeared.
They're expensive when you buy them, so growing them seems a worthy endeavor.

You can use (seeds) radish, mung bean, broccoli, red clover......and a bunch of others I can't think of off the top of my head.

Make sure you rinse them frequently. I love love love sprouts on sandwiches, salads, and as toppers (soup and about anything else)

My daughter got me started a few years ago. She got me a sprouting jar kit, with several sieved lids, different sized holes. She gets me bags of mixed sprout seeds. Right now, I'm using organic Sprout House Veggie Queen, which has French and Green Lentil seeds, red clover, Daikon radish and fenugreek. I have some High Mowing packs. One is all broccoli and another is mixed sandwich booster. They take about 4 days to sprout and last several days in the fridge. I like to make a basic salad with the sprouts and whatever fresh veggies I have, or wraps.

If you start, hope you enjoy the experience

was $1.69 a week ago and today it's $4.69 I think romaine hearts were $8.69

When were there this week, it was $7.99. And there's not really a tariff excuse I don't think, plenty of wheat grown in the USA.

I think it's not just the tariffs, we continue to be ripped off by greedy corporations, and the Trump/GQP aren't going to do anything but help them do it by gutting CFPB and putting their rich cronies in charge of all the "independent" regulatory agencies that might act to help us.

The Trump regime is one colossal LOOTING job happening against the citizenry. These fuckers should be IN JAIL.

Read that somewhere recently (sorry, can't remember where for attribution).

Will be my next No Kings protest sign.

Is going to be hearing a lot from customers.

3 organic romaine hearts (bag) are $3.99 where I am (365/Whole Foods brand).

Northern Virginia. Safeway, Giant, Harris Teeter.

I like buying my meat there

Here in SW Oregon, it costs $4.99, and the heads are fluffy.

$2 at Trader Joe's

Gas.. $2.24 regular at Costco Denver

weeks ago I made a pork veggie stir-fry and the vegetables cost more than the meat!

Going down.

price gouging is the reason.

because the dirt cheap undocumented labor is gone and the people left won't work for so little. Or nobody shows up, at all.

Cheap labor conservatives are in for a very rude awakening and that awakening is going to start on the farms.

since growing seasons in the states are pretty much over. Many of our "fresh" veggies and fruits come from Mexico and points south.

Can you say import taxes?

This was a discount grocery store.

I couldn't believe it.
The other produce was more reasonably priced.

Sent a notice on Facebook . Because of bad weather - flooding, high heat etc her lettuce would be 4 times the price.

Some of whatever;
lettuce, cabbage, parsley, apple/pear, carrot, daikon/radish, cucumber, or celery, + crotons, shredded parmesan.
Seasonal Additions; mandarin/grapefruit slices, berry fruit, melon.
I have old Tupperware that keeps all of what I will use the next time.
So it's a little of this and a little of that.
Never the same. Never boring.

When we visited Germany, we had the best schnitzel or bratwurst with POTATO SALAD.
If anyone has a recipe for German potato salad, the vinegar not mayo kind, please post.

Quantity matters. I'm sure it would be more if for, say, 6 or 7.

https://www.heb.com/search?esc=true&q=romaine%20hearts (not sure if that's good for an individual store, which is where I searched ... online.)

$0.31/oz if chopped into pieces (and not organic)

and harvested year-round by people of Mexican/Central American ancestry, some here legally, some not. I suspect a lot of agricultural workers are afraid to show up for work snd I expect things to get worse and prices to rise even more before Donnie and his minions are done