Bought a bunch of butternut squash on sale at Daves Market for 29 cents a pound. That's a great price since most now charge 79 to 99 a pound. These were local grown and i love butternut squash that is mashed with butter and a little pepper or baked with brown sugar in the hole.

the trouble is whatever place harvested them , all the stems were broken off. If you leave just an inch of stem they will last for several months. Without the stems I will have to watch them and if they start going soft in a few weeks I'll have to process and freeze them That's not all that bad a thing as they will then be ready to eat just by microwaving them but I prefer to store them without using up the freezer space.

Anyway , the produce guys should know better than to take the stems off. Who knows , maybe that's why they were 29 cents a pound.

Anyway , the produce guys should know better than to take the stems off. Who knows , maybe that's why they were 29 cents a pound.
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-spence

this is grumpy old farts material

this is grumpy old farts material

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Same squash with no stems are back up in price today (69 cents a pound) so I guess the stem removal was not the reason for the discount. I wonder why they would remove the stems? maybe they can fit more in a crate? Oh well , I got 20 pounds at 29 cents so I'm all set for this year.