Cauliflower$$$

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  • Posts: 1,649 Member
    East coast here, just outside DC. Trader Joe's and Aldi both have fresh cauliflower for $2.49. It hasn't changed in eons.
  • Posts: 2,724 Member
    I finally decided to try the recipe for cauliflower fried rice. Yesterday I went to my nearest Winco, and cauliflower was $5.00 a head!! There was even little black spots on them. Needless to say I did not purchase any. Whats up with that?

    Your grocer was saving you from making a horrible mistake...

  • TeaBea wrote: »

    I agree with this.

    I'm all for adding cauliflower (and other veggies) to things to reduce overall calories. But for me cauliflower rice is not a life long substitute for rice. Will people be eating cauliflower pizza crust long after the weight is gone? I don't think so.

    I eat rice, I eat pizza crust. There's nothing wrong with that.

    I have actually made a pretty tasty cauliflower pilaf.
  • Posts: 4 Member
    Do you have an ALDI near you? I just paid $1.49 a head on Saturday at ALDI! Granted I'm in the midwest so things are cheaper anyways, but anywhere I've gone ALDI has been much cheaper
  • Posts: 701 Member
    Just cut off the black spots
    But seriously $5 a head is supercaulifraudulisticpricegouginglyatrocious
  • Posts: 3,979 Member

    What about farmers market?

    In January? Most of us, I think, do not live in a climate where that's possible.

    Cauliflower has been that expensive here too recently because of the California thing, so even though I like it I've switched to whatever I can actually find at a reasonable price at my grocery store. Fortunately I like almost all vegetables so I'll get whatever's available and not heinously overpriced (which is...not a lot, right now, thanks again to California and our terrible dollar.)
  • Posts: 3,670 Member
    edited January 2016

    I don't mind that other people use cauliflower in different dishes, I just don't think it's accurate to say that cauliflower is an amazing rice or potatoe substitute, because it isn't. I've tried cauliflower hash browns, cauliflower cheese bakes, cauliflower rice, cauliflower mashed potatoes, cauliflower pizza crust, etc. But it's a poor substitute for starchy foods. Maybe that's just me, IDK.

    The other thing is, I find nothing wrong with eating potatoes. They're fiberous and full of potassium.

    I've been finding that since I've been eating low carb, cauliflower, mostly roasted until it's chewy and browned, makes an excellent emotional substitute for starchy foods. I don't call it "rice" or "potatoes," but it's delicious and makes a good based for some of the toppings I would have previously had on pasta, rice, or potatoes.

    I'm staying away from starchy foods to lower my cholesterol - MD's suggestion.
  • Posts: 688 Member

    Agreed. I like cauliflower (and potatoes).

    There's a dish served at a local Indian restaurant around here that's cauliflower fritters served with a sauce like Chinese-style sweet and sour pork but spicier (an Indian/Chinese hybrid). It's called Gobi Manchurian. It's delicious and constantly making it on local newspaper top lists. I'm sure a bunch of people around here would clutch their pearls and insist that it's no substitute for pork, but I mention it because you might like it and it's probably pretty similar to your buffalo bites.

    gobi_manchurian.jpg

    That sounds (and looks) delicious. I'm a happy meat eater, carb eater, grain eater, and mostly everything else under the sun, but I like anything that tastes good and I don't really care if it comes from stuff that seems unusual and nontraditional. I just like it to taste good, whether it's as a substitute for something else or in its own right. I'm certainly not complaining when one of those good tasting things is on the lighter end of the calorie spectrum now and then too.
  • Posts: 10,740 Member
    Buy frozen cauliflower. Same thing, but cheaper.

    yup

  • Posts: 28,053 Member
    I don't like canned tuna. I wouldn't jump into a thread about it and ridicule others' use of it or use of adjectives to describe it. Because no one cares that I don't like canned tuna.

    I like using cauliflower as a non-starchy veg just fine. What I don't like is using it as a starch sub.
  • Posts: 1,179 Member
    edited January 2016
    Ok, I do apologize if my comment came off hurtful. I should have prefaced it by saying that I personally don't like cauliflower as a substitute for potatoes or rice. But there is also nothing wrong with potatoes, even diabetics can get away with sweet potatoes or white potatoes in smaller amounts than the rest of the population.
  • Posts: 151 Member
    cauliflower is cheap where i live. i live in a farming state, that has gotten rain for months now. not sure how calif grow, but i think our rain might have something to do with it. i think its about .90 per head around here (united states dollar). do you have an aldis? they have really cheap produce, if not try frozen.
  • Posts: 13 Member
    Just cut off the black spots
    But seriously $5 a head is supercaulifraudulisticpricegouginglyatrocious

  • Posts: 13 Member
    True that!
  • Posts: 30,886 Member
    I don't like canned tuna. I wouldn't jump into a thread about it and ridicule others' use of it or use of adjectives to describe it. Because no one cares that I don't like canned tuna.

    I really hate canned tuna and usually say nothing about it, but if people were going on about how canned tuna was just like tuna steak or a great sub for salmon I might mention that I hate it and love those other foods.

    I love cauliflower (it's about $5 a head here at the moment, which is worth it to me--everything is off-season), but I HATE it when people claim its a great sub for potatoes (which I love) or rice (which I like much less than cauliflower), let alone the pizza crust thing. Sure cauliflower is great, but not because it can pretend to be other foods.
  • Posts: 30,886 Member
    peleroja wrote: »

    In January? Most of us, I think, do not live in a climate where that's possible.

    Oh, our farmers market is year round. Will it have fresh veg? Obviously not.
  • Posts: 4,926 Member

    Agreed. I like cauliflower (and potatoes).

    There's a dish served at a local Indian restaurant around here that's cauliflower fritters served with a sauce like Chinese-style sweet and sour pork but spicier (an Indian/Chinese hybrid). It's called Gobi Manchurian. It's delicious and constantly making it on local newspaper top lists. I'm sure a bunch of people around here would clutch their pearls and insist that it's no substitute for pork, but I mention it because you might like it and it's probably pretty similar to your buffalo bites.

    gobi_manchurian.jpg

    I'll look for that. I made this recently, and it was very good. She's a recent MasterChef contestant.
    http://www.prettypolymath.com/2015/07/14/vegan-buffalo-wings/
  • Posts: 1,197 Member
    First mistake is buying any produce at Winco!
  • Posts: 1,197 Member
    The other day at Trader Joe's, cauliflower was $1.99/head. I bought it:)

    Probably not from the US, avoiding the price hike :)
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