Can You Find Frozen Blueberries in the Stores These days?

[jazzcat]

I'm going to a friends for Thanksgiving and will bring dessert. I will bring a pumpkin pie, and want to bring a blueberry pie as well. My friend said the canned stuff would be OK. The thought of this sounds horrid. I'd rather get fresh/frozen berries.

[Peggy]

Hi Beth!

I see frozen blueberries in the freezer section of my grocery store year round, so you shouldn't have a problem. Blueberry pie sounds like a nice change from the usual Thanksgiving desserts. I'm thinking about making the Cranberry Upside-Down Cake from the November issue. It was a big hit at our Supper CLub.

Peggy

[jazzcat]

I felt a bit silly asking thee question about the blueberries but I never look for frozen ones.

That Cranberry Upside-Down Cake Sounds wonderful. Maybe I'll make that to take to my Mom's or make it there next weekend for my Thanksgiving with her.

[Melman]

I buy frozen blueberries all the time. Even though I'd rather have the fresh ones, they're pretty good for this time of the year. Our Publix stores carry them...usually just under $2 a bag.

[Angela]

I find frozen blueberries at my grocery store year round also. They always work just as well as fresh.

[KelLeg]

Bought some yesterday! Did you hear about the study that says eating a lot of spinach and blueberries helps you keep your memory when you age (actually, it did this in rats!). There could be a run on frozen blueberries...hurry!

[beejayw1]

I see their frozen fruits (including blueberries) all the time all over the place (CT, NH, PA).

In the summertime, I go wild picking blueberries (other berries, too) and I freeze all I pick (Rinse - not necessary - and place in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Freeze solid and put in zip-loc bags. Thank you, Martha Stewart).

Last year, two good friends stopped overnight on the way over and back from their honeymoon in Maine. In return for my hospitality, They brought over a gallon of wild Maine blueberries that they had picked themselves. I stuck them in the freezer and used them through the winter for Blueberry Buckle and waffles and other such goodies. I was sad to see the last of them.

Imagine my surprise when, on a horrid, yucky late February day, I discovered a forgotten baggie full of those little treasures! Blueberry waffles!

[Mamasue]

jazzcat....if you have a Trader Joes near you then you will find the little wild blueberries frozen which are great! I have a couple bags in my freezer just waiting to be used.

[LGBurns]

Originally posted by Mamasue
jazzcat....if you have a Trader Joes near you then you will find the little wild blueberries frozen which are great! I have a couple bags in my freezer just waiting to be used.

I do too! And not only do they have yummy wild blueberries but you can get organic ones for too--and they are really reasonable. Once again, hurrah for TJ's!

[Wendy w]

And a 3rd hurrah for the Trader Joe's frozen blueberries!!!;)

[SandyM]

I WANT A TRADER JOE'S IN MICHIGAN NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[jazzcat]

No Trader Joe's here. I'll look in Stop and Shop. Diana mentioned Cascadia Farms? Maybe I'll find those. BTW, do you thaw your berries before making the pie?

[Vanessa]

Jazzcat...you will find blueberries, strawberries, rasberries and a mix also peaches in bags with other frozen products. If I recall around Thanksgiving they puit them on sale. I getmine at Giant in mD but I am sure any big supermarket will have it.

[Wendy w]

Originally posted by SandyM
I WANT A TRADER JOE'S IN MICHIGAN NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Sandy,

Your mournful plea tugged at my heartstrings & jumpstarted my memory. I have recently seen flyers in TJ’s advertising for employees in MI & OH locations. I just called the headquarters this morning to find out the where and when for MI. Nothing is nor will be concrete until leases are signed, etc. They are looking in the suburban Detroit area for maybe 2002 or 03. When it happens, they will put it on their website. I had really hoped to make your day.:(

I see that they now have one open in Dublin, Ohio so you and DH may have to take a weekend road trip. I’m sorry that I don’t have better news for you as you want it NOW and I can’t blame you. At least there is hope in the future. Hopefully, they will hurry the H*(+ up!

[SandyM]

Yay Wendy!!! Okay not so much yay for now, but definitely yay for later!! In the meantime, I may have to pack a cooler and head south to buckeye country.......

Thanks for the information - what a sweetheart!!! :D

[Wendy w]

No problem, Sandy. It breaks my heart to see anyone (especially us "foodnerds":p) deprived of a Trader Joe's. My sister will be happy too and I will no longer have to haul their delacacies along with me when I visit.

[TheresaM]

Actually my Stop and Shop sale flyer, this week, list Wyman's
wild Maine blueberries or raspberries, 12 ozs frozen bags for
$1.99 each. I'm buying some for the Gingercake, May 01 recipe.
Thought this would be a different dessert for T-day.

[jazzcat]

I did find the Cascadian Farm Organic Blueberries in Stop and Shop. Now I'm all set. I haven't had Blueberry Pie in such a long time.

[mcraig13]

Recently I wanted to make the blueberry pound cake. No frozen blueberries in sight and the fresh ones available were just too costly. I opted for the canned ones and they worked great in this recipe. Not a good time for blueberries.