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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Well, "not too bad" is probably an apt description. Fresh is best, frozen is second best, canned is if neither fresh nor frozen are available.
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i say that because i like peas, but they're not my favourite vegetable, so i don't eat them too often to begin with. usually i have a small can or two of them on hand as "emergency rations" if i don't manage to go to the shop. i buy most of my vegetables fresh, although since i got a refrigerator with a freezer i've been keeping things like frozen spinach and cauliflower always in there. also, my new favourite thing in the world is pre-chopped frozen onions. i hate chopping onions because they make me cry so much, but i just can't cook without them !
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Freezer space is at a premium here, too, but it tends not to be an issue because frozen stuff tends to be consumed almost immediately. (Vegetables, at least. Meat may stay in longer.)
I'm just curious about Parisian food shopping. Frozen foods are handled by separate shops devoted to them, and are not sold in regular food markets?
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no, we have frozen foods in regular grocery markets too, however there is also a chain called Picard (it turns out they have a site :
http://www.picard.fr/) which is shops which sell *only* frozen food, of all sorts : individual raw ingredients (chopped onions, cauliflower, raspberries... also fish and meat, of course), mixes you just have to cook (or unfreeze, like for mixed fruit salad), portionable purées and soupes, prepared meals you just have to heat, desserts, ice cream... pretty much anything, really. but only frozen stuff. i shop there very occasionally, partly because i never got in the habit really since i didn't have a freezer before, partly because my freezer is too tiny for me to buy much frozen food so mostly i buy a few standard ingredients and the rest fresh. i wouldn't go at all, but there is one literally right next to my house. but they have a much wider selection that a standard grocery store, for obvious reasons.