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How Much Are Sweet Potatoes?

Marilyn Sue McClintock

8 years ago

We did not grow our own this year, too much going on. So I bought some yesterday at the Dollar General store. They were three pounds for a dollar. I bought six pounds. I like them candied, no marshmallows, just baked with butter, in a casserole with crunchy topping including pecans fixed like my Mother used to fix them, fried with butter and brown sugar. How much are sweet potatoes where you are?

Sue

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nancyofnc

8 years ago

North Carolina is the number one producer of sweet potatoes in the US, 40% of the nation's supply. We have a Ham 'n Yam festival in Smithfield in May where huge crates are set out with paper bags for anyone attending the event to fill for free. Most of the restaurants offer baked sweet potato and fries. Sweet potato pies far surpass pumpkin and are home baked year 'round.

In the chain grocery stores the prices are about 89c but the farmers markets have them for 25c to 35c per pound most of the year.

They keep a long time open in a cool dark pantry but not near regular potatoes, onions, or apples. Don't refrigerate them unless they are cooked or they will become bitter. Cook them with the skins on for the best flavor, and eat the skin too for more nutrition. The county extension agencies discourage backyard gardeners from planting sweet potatoes to prevent potentially harmful blights, pests or bacteria's from affecting the big farmers cash crops.

If you have a sprouted sweet potato, cut it and suspend it over water with toothpicks, put it on your window sill and soon you'll be rewarded with beautiful leaves as the vines and roots grow. My mom grew them that way from the earliest time I can remember, and pinned the vines to her curtains over the sink where they grew happily into the winter.

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grainlady_ks
8 years ago
They are 33-cents/pound at Aldi.
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ci_lantro
8 years ago
No good deals on sweet potatoes up here on the Frozen Tundra. Aldi up here sells them by 'the each'...normally 79 cents each. Last week, they had them on special for 49 cents each which is about the best deal I've found. I bought six. Average weight a little over 11 ounces.

Winter squash is the normal Thanksgiving side in these parts. No doubt because we can grow great winter squashes but the growing season is too short and generally too cool for sweet potatoes.
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party_music50
8 years ago
Typically .99/lb here (or more) and I love them!
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lindac92
8 years ago
$.79 a pound last week.....
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annie1992
8 years ago
They are 99 cents a pound at the local Meijer, but I saw Aldi was running a sale, 3 lbs for $1.49. I still need to pick some up.

I don't grow my own, they don't do well for me, and so I've given them up, I can usually buy them far more cheaply than I can grow them, I get little skinny fingers instead of nice thick sweet potatoes.

Annie
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ci_lantro
8 years ago
Aldi special this week--sweet potatoes are 39 cents each, not per pound. I'll pick up a few more, cook them and freeze. (Cooked sweet potatoes freeze well.) I don't have much luck storing them...least not for over 2-3 weeks. Prolly has a lot to do with how they've been warehoused & how long they languish in the bins at the grocery.

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