I refuse to buy a tomato or a pepper from my grocery store. I grow huge numbers of big, beautiful tomatoes and peppers in the summer-fall that I consume or give away. I do not try to sell any produce.
I freeze ripe tomatoes whole to use in chili, meatloaf, spaghetti sauce, etc., and dice and freeze sweet peppers to use in scrambled eggs, omelets, meatloaf, etc. over the winter.
I do not try to eat BLT’s in the winter. The thought of them is what gets me through the winter, and preparing the garden in the spring for the new planting.
I still have two little packages of cherry tomatoes in the freezer from last year. I’ve recently learned I can slip in diced canned ones for tacos in the winter and the family doesn’t complain. Can’t wait until the ones on the vine ripen.
But it’s bell peppers I’m craving. I’m not having any luck with seeds or transplants for some reason.
I do have a bag of jalapenos (not my garden) that I’m going to slice, seed, and freeze for poppers later - yum. Only problem is there is zero, zero, zero room in the freezer and I still have one tray of strawberries that need to get bagged and stuffed in somewhere.