I buy them at Thanksgiving because one year I couldn't find them at Christmas. Other years I've seen them marked down close to Christmas.

Don't you use the dried cranberries for nut bread? I would think the fresh ones would be too tart and could pop in the bread. It'd be the same as putting fresh grapes in baked goods instead of raisins.

I can get them here, but there is an Ocean Spray facility not more than 20 minutes away and growers everywhere - all up and down the beach area. We're a cranberry haven.

Still, I rarely try to store or keep fresh (frozen) after harvest season. Trader Joe's has them dried but chewable like raisins and I bake with those, add them to green salads - a lot. They stock those with a little sugar added and those without. Trader Joe's price is better than Ocean Spray's and the quality quite good. I don't have a dehydrator to dry my own.

I use to cut them in half so they don't pop. The bread is sweet so it is a nice contrast. I use the recipe on the bag.

You should be able to find them frozen year round.

Piles of them at WalMart the other day.

Sams club had them the other day, as did our Shoprite here in NJ.

I couldn't find any at the Walmart here. I wanted to make cranberry walnut pie, and realized I had forgotten all about it this year, so thinking they would have some, I looked....nope. I considered making it with raspberries, but told myself....you don't need to eat that....so put it off until next year's cranberry season.

I did a survey of all the supermarkets around here via their listings on Instacart, where they're good about marking "out of stock" but only presence in your cart after they've been picked by the shopper are a guarantee:

All the high end stores have both Ocean Spray and some kind of organic, as well as house brand.

The discount stores are all out.

In between all have some cranberries, but they might be off brand or only Ocean Spray.

Do you have a snooty store near you where you DH hasn't tried?

Pillog -no snooty stores unless you mean Traders Joes and Whole Food. He went to all the regular food stores like Safeway, etc.

Well, if you haven't tried those, it might be worth calling them. It's the stores like Safeway, here, which were hit and miss. The snooty stores are local, and the ones that have all the flavors of Jell-o--but for a price. :) And all the imported wines and cheeses and perfect produce.

Is he possibly looking in the wrong place in the store?

Not that it helps, but I did see Ocean Spray at our regular market yesterday. TJ’s also still had some for $2.29. Definitely call to check. I tend to but A LOT in the Fall for the freezer to have all year.

I think maybe he didn't look in the right places. My local markets (which I think are not that far from your local markets) still have them.

I bought some organic ones in Nov., but I didn't see any in Dec. - at least, not at the stores I shopped.

There was a dip in the production this year - something like 5%.

because they are limited seasonal items in the midwest, I can about 8 pints to ... tide us over.

I checked online at Walmart. The one I usually go to is out. However when I checked others nearby, about half had them.

Yes....and I have a couple of packages in the freezer. We are in Cranberry Bog area, so

we can find them a bit later than some areas, I think. Couldn't have turkey without them. :)

Was told on the 19th that they (Giant) hadn't been able to get any fresh for two weeks. Fortunately there was one bag of frozen behind the raspberries, so I got my pies.

DH even asked at the different stores and they said that they didn't have any.

Often I can find them at Trader Joe’s when the supermarket is out of them. I didn’t look for them this morning when I was there because I still have some.

Our Walmart had plenty yesterday.

Rusty

My Target has Ocean Spray for $1.99