Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Here is a weird note, in the frozen food section of HEB at a very reasonable cost one can buy a box of frozen avocadoes that are sliced into quarters and smaller sections!

I know avocadoes are pretty cheap in Mexico (a friend who travels to Mexico told me he never buys avocadoes in the US, only in Mexico, as they are sold for 5 to 12 cents each!), but here in Texas they are expensive (about 80 cents for the regular size ones and $1.30 for the large ones.

My guess is they have a lot of left-over that are ripe avocadoes and figured a way to quick freeze them. I bought a box with a clear plastic pouch in it. I then let them thaw for an hour, then microwaved them for 30 seconds. They tasted just like fresh avocadoes and are much cheaper than fresh avocadoes plus they are just the tasty meat, no pit and are ready to fine slice or turn into guacamole dip.

I also was given a quick tasty dinner treat by a friend from Columbia. Take a large avocado and cut in half, removing the pit from the one side. Mix in a bowl shredded and cut white chicken with a little mayonnaise (at HEB a local maker called Dukes makes a much better mayonnaise that the regular brands), then lightly mix some small cooked green peas to this and fill the space where the pit was. Serve cold, great taste and has a great look to it.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

around $3-4 here

gastech1949 Loc: Imperial Beach, CA.

3 for $5 here in San Diego at Grocery Outlet, but Hard as a rock and take 3-5 days to ripen.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

If you put avocados in a paper bag with a banana they will ripen quicker.

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

My mom made on picnics avocados stuffed with mashed avocado a hard boiled egg some salt pepper olive oil. She stuffed rind halves with that mixture.
Coming from Chile we eat avocado on toast like butter breakfast tea time or anytime

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Interesting, how does your friend get them across the border into the US?

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

And, once ripe, they turn rotten in a day. They go from rock hard to rotten. LOL

agillot

They used to be 3 cents in Tijuana .

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

The paper bag, yes, but the banana, all you need is the upper part of the banana and it will also work. But here is a delightfully weird truth, if you can get the banana stalks from a supplied, place them in your yard and as they age slowly work them (as in day after days) across the lawn/garden until you reach the edge of the property or area infested by fleas. Fleas will easily burrow into the 'skin' of the stalk, but once in the flea is trapped inside the stalk never to escape. This is common practice in may South American countries.

More on bananas, you can use fresh ones, or totally turned ones, even the discarded skin, this is a secret of thoes that grow roses, a bananas is the perfect "miracle grow' for roses. My sister learned this from an elderly lady that had roses all around her home in Louisiana. She generally dug up her rose bushes every other year and put bananas in the hole and replanted the ball-ground-rose bush.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

The drug cartels have a large impact on the price of avocadoes as they have basically enslaved the farmers to grow them and the cartels take the money from the sales from the farmers.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/19/1081948884/mexican-drug-cartels-are-getting-into-the-avocado-and-lime-business