Did I Miss Blueberry Season?

chisue

10 years ago

$2.50 for a pint of blueberries at the end of July? (The week before they were $1.)

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User
10 years ago
It's hit and miss around here. I walked into HEB about two weeks ago and they were $.87 per pint. I think I bought 16 pints and froze several.
pkramer60
10 years ago
You may missed it. About 3 weeks ago I bought them for .49 per pint. No I am seeing anywhere from $1 up to the $2.50.

If you are near Niles, Il, check out Jerry's for his sales. Cantaloupes are 3 for $1 this week and they are really good.

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chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
pkramer -- Thanks for thinking of me. I know Jerry's! My DIL shops there. I'm seldom close enough to make that trip logical.

Gosh...I guess I did miss the season! I might not have questioned had I not seen news about cherry growers dumping their fruit -- price support action.
lily316
10 years ago
Yep. Blueberries for 99 cents a pint are up now to 2.99. Cherries are going up in price too. I love them and they were as low as 1.99 but now 4.99 in some places.
Vertise
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Always $5 here for a pint (not organic) but they did have a 2 for 1 sale this week.
chessey35
10 years ago
I've been paying 3.99 for 18 oz. but I find they're necessary so will usually pay whatever the price. I'm not a big fan of frozen ones in my cereal.
lily316
10 years ago
Good news. Maybe I spoke too soon. A pint of blueberries tonight...one dollar. Yay.
Cookie8
10 years ago
We still have cheaper blueberries too. Not sure of the price. Just got back from traveling through Northern Ontario so we had a few stops to eat some wild blueberries on the roadsides.
chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
Surprise! I got a 32 ounce tub of big, fat Michigan blueberries at Costco today for $5.

Cookie -- Your 'scavenging' reminded me of seeing a Gypsy encampment in a forest preserve with the women picking raspberries beside the road. Took me back to my childhood, when they would travel along the Des Plaines River, going north in the summer and south in the fall. Sometimes they'd run a little carnival.
Marilyn Sue
10 years ago
Blueberries were ripening here in central Indiana the first of June. Amber froze several bags of them from her bushes. I just had the girls plant a few bushes for me this year. Will see how they do. They had a few berries on them but the deer or something ate them and the bushes.

Sue
chisue
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks for the timeline, Marilyn Sue. I'd just thought of end of July as peak for what comes into my Chicagoland area. (I hear you about the deer eating fruit AND bushes. We have a line of arbor vitae along a fence between our yard and a deer path along a creek. They are gorgeous and green on our side; bare on the creek side.

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