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The Chopped Onion Project. Is there a limit to cutting costs?

By The Busy Budgeter | 3 Comments | This post may contain affiliate links

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Can you be too cheap?

 

-the chopped onion project-

 

Can you ever be too cheap? Don't cry dying the chopped onion project! www.busybudgeter.com
Chopping onions to save a few dollars. Seems simple huh?

I realized just how many onions we’ve been using lately. Rather than buying the 12oz bag of chopped frozen onions for $1.00 at Giant, I considered buying onions in bulk to chop myself. Wegmans has a 10 pound bag of onions for $6.99. I could use my mini food processor to dice them two or three at a time while I made dinner. “Easy!”, I thought.

As the tears poured down my face and my eyes burned so bad that I thought I was doing permanent damage, My husband kept saying “Are you OK? This doesn’t look like a good idea”. Then, when I noticed my 17 month old son rubbing his eyes on the floor next to me, I realized that I actually have limits to frugality. In total, It took me about 15 minutes to chop and package those onions to freeze. Those 15 minutes felt like about 10 hours and I still feel like all I can smell is onions when I walk through the kitchen.

At the end of the day, I saved $5.81 for enough onions that will likely last me through three months. While a savings of 54% is pretty impressive on a whole food, it wasn’t enough to endure the noxious fumes that plague me to this day. At the end of a year, I would have saved $24.

We’ll just live recklessly and buy the frozen chopped onions, ’cause you know, we’re extravagant like that:)

You can save so much money for this chopped onion project but you might cry! www.busybudgeter.com
Don’t be deceived by the ease of the mini processor… You’re about to cry.

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  1. Rosemarie Groner says

    August 11 at 11:17 am

    I love minced dried onions! I use them in so many recipes (and weirdly on pizza). They sell a spice jar of them for $1.00 at Aldi, but with the size, Costco was likely cheaper.

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  2. JC says

    October 14 at 12:54 pm

    This all the way! I’m in the US and have never even heard of frozen pre-chopped onions. Granted I grew up in a house hold that cooked from scratch with whole food, so I never even though of another way. I probably chop an onion or garlic for dinner every single night, and it takes me maybe 2 minutes.

    Also If you light a candle near your work space it helps to remove the oils in the air that make you teary.
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    • The Busy Budgeter says

      October 14 at 1:57 pm

      Good idea JC! I’ve now decided that whole onions are the way to go. (Which you already knew!)

      Reply

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