Originally Posted by
milepig
We hit up the grocery store salad bar for ingredients we need for something we're making - onions, celery, carrots, mushrooms, etc. They're pretty much chopped and ready to go and cheaper than the same stuff in the produce section. We can take exactly how much we need, and it just gets weighed at the cashier and we're good to go.
Ours has a bulk prepared vegetable selection in bins. I think they run about 1/2 the price per pound of the salad bar. Sliced or diced onions, bell peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, etc. No bacon though.