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Watching a guy at the Denver farmers market turn a single cabbage into three dishes changed my whole view on bulk buys.
He showed me how to use the leaves for stuffed rolls, the core for a quick pickle, and the outer bits for soup, which convinced me to stop buying pre-cut coleslaw mix and just grab the whole veggie for 89 cents.
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grantt111mo ago
That "whole view on bulk buys" sounds nice in theory, but it ignores the reality of time and waste. Most people don't have the spare hour to process one cabbage into three separate dishes. For a lot of us, that 89 cent cabbage would just rot in the fridge while we bought the convenient slaw mix anyway.
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taylor.paige20d ago
Yeah, the "spare hour" thing is so real. I get the idea of doing it all at once, but some nights just getting dinner on the table is the win. That mental load of seeing a whole cabbage and knowing you have to deal with it is a real barrier. Sometimes the cheaper option costs more in guilt when it goes bad.
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blairj551mo ago
But isn't the whole point that it saves time later? If you process the whole cabbage at once, you're done. You get your rolls for dinner, a jar of pickles for the week, and soup starter in the freezer. The slaw mix still needs to be turned into a salad, so that's a step either way. For me, the real waste is buying the pre-cut stuff and then still having it go bad.
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