Pre-chopped onions. In a bag. Am I alone in this?

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I am prepared to be told that this is my own dirty little secret but still. Pre-chopped onions. Who would not buy?

Still pretty good value. I hate skinning the buggers and chopping them makes me cry. Pre-chopped onions are the way forward!

I used to but frozen chopped onion all the time but then we moved to NZ and you'd need a second mortgage to but them here.

I do have little tubs of minced garlic, chilli and ginger in the fridge which are brilliant. The little tubes of herbs used to be a lifesaver too, but then I discovered almost all of them contain milk (why???) so with a dairy allergic DD, I've had to go back to the fresh ones again.

I think they use some slightly dodgy chemicals in the fresh prepped veg to keep it from going off. It also tastes odd - the carrots for example seem to seal off round the cut edges.

The frozen ones don't hold the texture either.

It's alright in a push but nothing beats actually cooking from scratch and prepping veg. I do buy prepared packs to make soup and blend down so I'm not religious about it but it is most emphatically not the same.

I did not know one could buy pre-chopped butternut squash! Where from? I use other convenience vegetables, when I have freezer space, especially spinach, as fresh is so frustrating, goes off so quickly and cooks away to nothing.

I've always got the little frozen cubes of chilli in the freezer.

I buy them in Asda or Iceland. Asda do unfrozen ones as well.
Iceland have a brilliant selection of frozen veg.
My local butchers now sell pre peeled potatoes and ready cut chips.

I buy these!!! I absolutely love them!! They are genius!

My husband moans because they are 50p.
What a tight arse

YOU HAVE OPENED MY EYEEEESSS!
I HATE THE LITTLE BUGGERS!

right wheres my purse-tesco here i come

nothing beats actually cooking from scratch and prepping veg

I'm sorry, but cooking from scratch and prepping veg is soul destroying

If I didnt wear contact lenses I would think this was a great idea but chopping onions doesnt make me cry as I wear contacts. Im guessing these are the bog standard onions too, I only ever use red.

I guess if you work long hours or have a busy life then why not but personally I like chopping stuff up and I would assume that freshly prepared fruit and veg would taste better.

Now if you had said Jif lemon was a great idea then I would you really can't beat a freshly squeezed lemon.

vvviola - I buy fresh basil and sage, chop a whole bag with scissors then freeze with a tiny bit of water in ice cube trays. They last months. Glad you said about the milk as im intolerant and that wouldnt have even crossed my mind.

Bike, Iceland stock two ranges of frozen jacket potato, and I think the "Something Farm" ones (begins with a "B" think) are better than McCain's.

nothing beats actually cooking from scratch and prepping veg

Prepping veg is something I often have no time to do, as I need to have dinner ready and eaten within an hour on some weeknights.

And you are still cooking from scratch; the veg may be frozen but is still uncooked.

I want them! i can't get them anymore. YES i know an onion is a quarter of the price but my eyes really react so badly. i have a spoon hanging out of my mouth, the extractor fan on, candles lit and i'm still blinded by the fumes. So if the shops are listening, please bring back onions in a bag!

I always buy pre-chopped onions.

I've no feeling in my hands due to a neurological illness.

So I find it hard to chop them, and if I cut myself, I don't feel it.

Frozen pre-chopped onions from Farmfoods are a essential for me (along with peppers, mushrooms and leeks!

economically frozen spinach is brilliant. About £1 a kg compared to £4 or £5 per kilo. If you are cooking it down anyway its a no brainer!

I discovered ready peeled potato's the other day, they will change your life!!!

Holy shit Ishy - where did you get those?

I want some now!

Hold a teaspoon upside down in your mouth while you chop them and you don't cry

Which way around is upside down? I suppose that you mean the scoopy bit is on your tongue? And this makes your eyes not react to onions how?

To me, pre-cut onions tend to have a slightly BO smell.

We've got shit hot knives so chopping onions is fine and not something I find a chore. Before my milk allergic son came along I used to love frozen mash and I find making mash such a chore, now I do it with almond milk and olive oil so no shop bought stuff anymore. Waitrose frozen herbs are brilliant too, I couldn't do without them.

Potatoes

I had a massive debate with the guys in my office about these not long ago. They couldn't get their heads around it. I felt like a right pariah, but like I said to them, it makes my life easier and that makes me happy, so

I wonder if them living a 10 minute drive from work, and me living an hour's drive has anything to do with it? I don't think they get how much of that early evening is taken up with driving. Especially when you combine it with having a 3yo to get in bed by 7pm. I don't have time in the week to peel onions!

I quite like chopping and prepping veg, I find it therapeutic after a hard day at work and the commute home. I wear lenses so chopping onion poses no challenge. I have a carrier bag on the worktop and peel straight into that (we're in a third floor flat so no option to have a compost bin. Which annoys me greatly as we recycle everything else. LB Southwark - pls provide compost bins. Kthx.)

However, I hate peeling and chopping or crushing garlic. Bastard papery bits of skin everywhere ggggrrrrrrr. Even my beautiful mezzaluna has not taken away the garlic paper rage... so when I discovered pre-chopped frozen garlic in Tesco I nearly cried with joy. It comes in little cardboard pots. They do coriander and chilli too. I ruddy well love it.

I can't prep veg as I have carpal tunnel badly enough to be unable to hold/chop/peel veg. Frozen pre prepped veg is the only way I am able to actually cook these days!