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Cooking & Baking

MissMillie

(38,954 posts)

29. If you're thinking of giving some away

Reply to Danascot (Original post)

Sun Aug 13, 2023, 08:52 AM

Aug 2023

Think of your local food bank/food pantry.

Obviously a lot of those places have issues w/ storing fresh produce. But honestly, I don't think they'll have to worry about storing fresh tomatoes for very long. The tomatoes will be taken before they go bad.

The folks who rely on the food pantry don't very often see fresh produce there.

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What to do with a ton of tomatoes? [View all] Danascot Aug 2023 OP

you can freeze or dehydrate them Kali Aug 2023 #1

Give them to me? irisblue Aug 2023 #2

Make salsa and freeze it griffi94 Aug 2023 #3

tomato salsa freezes just wonderful. i have frozen it in bags and also little plastic containers Trueblue1968 Aug 2023 #26

Many options, surely bucolic_frolic Aug 2023 #4

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Trailer bucolic_frolic Aug 2023 #8

Ah, memories of the Great Zucchini Glut of 94' Pencougar1 Aug 2023 #5

Friend had a zucchini glut Warpy Aug 2023 #30

Give them to a local food bank. Diamond_Dog Aug 2023 #6

This! Lunabell Aug 2023 #11

That's what I'd do..food bank or spread the bounty Deuxcents Aug 2023 #17

These are great suggestions! Danascot Aug 2023 #7

I would make a big MOMFUDSKI Aug 2023 #9

The postal carrier dweller Aug 2023 #10

free bag of tomatoes sign Tetrachloride Aug 2023 #12

When I had lots of them Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 #13

Cowboy Caviar Botany Aug 2023 #14

I freeze them Cairycat Aug 2023 #15

We grow lotsa zucchini and tomatoes... MiHale Aug 2023 #16

Sauce Master (not a plug) usonian Aug 2023 #18

Canning time! Emile Aug 2023 #19

+1! Lots of memories of canning tomatoes with my parents. Can them in the summer and we had mitch96 Aug 2023 #24

Get a large kettle, and no_hypocrisy Aug 2023 #20

Starting to have the same problem Bayard Aug 2023 #21

We have a neighbor who puts a table out front by the curb. We all contribute and take. Nanuke Aug 2023 #22

Google "horiatiki salata" eppur_se_muova Aug 2023 #23

I peel and quarter mine zeusdogmom Aug 2023 #25

Gazpacho! It freezes beautifully. hatrack Aug 2023 #27

What kind of tomatoes? Retrograde Aug 2023 #28

If you're thinking of giving some away MissMillie Aug 2023 #29

LOL - I made a rule in our house: tomatoes with every meal. Vinca Aug 2023 #31