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12. Onions and potatoes. They're packaged for families of 4-5. I cook for two, and one eats like a bird.

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 02:33 PM

Aug 4

Potatoes come in 3lb and 5lb bags, onions now in 2lb. Most go bad, but for potatoes it's still cheaper than buying single potatoes. Our BLM funds at work in Idaho, providing subsidized water to a crop/soil combination that needs huge amounts of it.

I'm actually switching to getting my onions at Wal deMort (ewwww otherwise) where I can buy single onions. If I order them online, it seems they pick out the largest one(s) on the planet, so they may still go bad.

I really need to start a compost heap. Too bad I don't have a garden.

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