SOS Tips: Smart grocery shopping

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7. Buy foods that are in season and stock up your freezer

In winter, just as in summer, it makes sense to buy food items that are available for sale in large quantities at low prices. At the end of summer, you can easily stock up for winter, without too much hassle.

You can roast peppers on the barbecue or in the oven, peel them and put them into small bags in the freezer. You can also make ice creams or sorbets with strawberries or other berries. Or how about freezing blueberries on a tray and then, putting them all together into a freezer bag? Making soups and apple sauces are also other ways of storing seasonal foods.

And all this at a fraction of the winter prices. You can see this using peppers as an example: they cost $11/kg in winter and $1/kg in summer.

Read our companion post SOS Tips: Stocking up for winter.

This text was prepared for the July 2, 2009 episode of Par-dessus le marché. Prices have been updated on November 7th, 2014. Watch the corresponding video.

Updated: November 7, 2014

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Cinzia Cuneo

Italiana di nascita e canadese d'adozione, Cinzia ha deciso di coniugare le sue competenze professionali e la sua passione per la buona tavola sviluppando un servizio per aiutare i numerosi «aventi bisogno» a riprendere il controllo della loro alimentazione. Così è nata SOSCuisine. Ingegnere di formazione al Politecnico di Torino, Cinzia ha conseguito un Master's Degree in scienze applicate all'École Polytechnique de Montréal.