Is it just me, or have frozen vegetables improved greatly over the

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past 10 or 15 years.

I mean . . . maybe they've improved the way they can flash-freeze them or something, I don't know. But I just had some Birdseye mixed veggies that taste damn near fresh off the vine (or plant or whatever) :)

[Left Is Write]

1. Possibly. I get some very good frozen veggies too.

[Floogeldy]

2. I think so

Have you heard that radio doctor, Dean Edell?

Well, he said that frozen might be better than some fresh because the frozen veggies are more likely to have been picked and frozen in a ripened state, rather than picked early to ripen in transit, like the ones on the shelf in the store, maybe.

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5. That makes total sense to me :)

And I do love my veggies. Don't get me wrong, I'm a meat-eater too, but I love my veggies :).

[mcscajun]

3. Yes, they have improved.

IQF (Individually Quick Frozen) is the improved technology. If you're buying your frozen veggies in bags, and they're loose, they're gonna be good. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

4. oh boy and how. they get better all the time ; I got some real

skinny green beans in a HUMONGOUS bag @ COSTCO and they have really been good. I think they would make excellent green bean casserole

[mondo joe]

6. Get some baby white corn and just DEFROST IT - don't cook or

even heat with warm water.

It's perfect.

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7. Sounds tasty :)

I used to just pick fresh corn off the stalk and eat it raw when we had our garden while I was growing up.

Fresh corn tastes awesome . . . and it's sweeter than most candy :).

[mondo joe]

10. For REALLY tasty defrost the white corn, add red bell pepper, avocado,

colantro, salt and lime juice.

Doesn't need any oil or butter or sugar at all. And you would not believe how often I'm asked to bring it to a dinner, or how often I'm asked if it's fresh corn. I always just respond "Isn't it good?"

[flamingyouth]

16. Yeah - that sweet white corn is the best

Trader Joe's often has a good kind. I love making chowders out of it in the winter. You can rely on the taste of it, whereas you never really know how an ear of fresh corn will taste, I've found.

[Catshrink]

8. How's Quinn?

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11. He's good! He's too damn picky with his food though

I'm trying to get him to eat healthier and all he wants is the same old food he'd been eating.

I'm trying to follow Lorien's advice and feed him high-grade organic food and such, but he's not havin' it.

Althea will eat pretty much anything though :)

[Catshrink]

13. Do you mix them?

For me that's the tried and true way to change their food. I haven't had a problem for a while though -- my cats will eat anything!

[ET Awful]

15. I try that, and he doesn't go for it.

He'll poke at it and sniff at it, lick it a few times .. . but unless he's redally hungry, he'll either walk away, or try to bury it :)

[flamingyouth]

17. Gee, I can't imagine Quinn being picky

Just looking at his picture, he looks like he'll go along with anything you wish - not. ;)

[ET Awful]

18. Are we talkin' abou the same Quinn?

:) :) :)

[flamingyouth]

19. OMG - that is the cutest photo ever!!!!

:loveya: I love Quinn!!!!

[Catshrink]

20. He is DU's mascat!

[BornaDem]

9. Don't know. Gave up on them many moons ago. Maybe I will have to try...

them again is you say there has been an improvement. With the exception of corn (canned) and stuff I freeze from my own garden, I haven't bought anything except fresh vegetables in probably close to 20 yrs.

[MidwestMomma]

12. I though it was just me!

I bought some frozen broccoli the other day and cooked it and it was dang delicious. I thought it was because I was really hungry but maybe they have gotten better. :)

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. Yes and No - Frozen vegetables ARE better than "store fresh"

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Not so much because the freezing methods are better,

But that our "fresh" veggies at the store contain so little real nutrients anymore.

To get them nice red tomatoes on the shelf, they hafta be picked green most of the time. In effect, rather than turning red from ripening while filling up with nutrients (and taste) they are really rotting their way to redness so they look good in the store.

Frozen veggies can be allowed to ripen to their fullest, as the shipping problem doesn't exist.

So yup -

Frozen veggies are most likely the most nutritious and natural(and tasty)

They don't even require the preservatives that canning does.

Other than farmer's markets,

"Fresh" veggies don't exist anymore -

(sigh)