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To be completely honest? Grapes. The really nice ones that have actual flavor to them. Green are my personal fav, but really, any type of grape makes me happy to see at a party. Plus they're easy finger food!

I'm always pleasantly surprised by fruit or vegetable platters too, tbh. Especially if there's a nice dip to go with them.

I find veggie platters to be a little hit or miss for me, but that's just because I feel like so many of them are the generic carrots/celery/not-very-good tomatoes you buy pre-made at the store, but if you had a really good one? With various bell peppers, and really good cherry tomatoes? And, idk, picked onions (is that a thing people eat just by themselves? I don't like them myself) that could be good.

My SO loves onions so if I make a veggie platter it has green onion spears on it.

Also I usually put things like Endive and mushrooms and radishes and whatnot on there, along with the generic carrot/celery/cherry tomato/broccoli/cauliflower etc. because I am very serious about my vegetable platters.

I have also never bought one premade because THE HORROR.

Lucky. :/ Most parties I've been to have those premade ones, and it always makes me sad. If they were potlucks, I could bring good ones, but noooooo.

I don't understand it. I guess people just don't want to put the effort in, because for real, making one from scratch is $3-4 and ten minutes of your time whereas buying a premade one is $12-15 and old, crappy vegetables.

Look, I'm not saying that veggie trays aren't that expensive, because they are, but where are you that you can make a complete veggie tray (with more than one vegetable) for $3-4? Because that is literally impossible where I am, unless you have your own garden. That's just the tomatoes around here, or a couple of peppers. That's not a full tray.

3-4 mushrooms = $0.15
1/2 bell pepper = $0.20
1/2 head broccoli = $0.40
1/4 head cauliflower = $0.35
1 endive = $0.78
3 green onions = $0.30
3 carrots = $0.40
3 sticks celery = $0.35
1 box cherry tomatoes = $1.69

Prices approximate, generally sale priced since I very rarely buy things that aren't on sale. So.... the cherry tomatoes are the big expense, really. The rest of the stuff I just use later to make other things with. Depending on the party I also have 2-3 other food choices around so it's not like I make a vegetable tray fit to feed an army lol.

I have never been able to buy foods at these prices, like, ever. Bags of carrots are more expensive than that, and if you're only going to buy three, you're probably buying from like, an organic vendor where the prices are way high.

Though, I'm seeing where the difference is; you're assuming you've already bought the bags of veggies, and you're just portioning out the amount you're using? Like, one bag = $1.20 with nine carrots, so technically for the platter, you're only using $0.40 of carrot. On my end, I live alone, so buying a whole bag of carrot isn't really economical, unless I'm using them for a party or something, in which case I'd have to buy the whole bag, and it wouldn't matter how much the party platter technically cost, I still spent money on the whole bag of carrots.

Well, see the thing is I use all of those things in my regular cooking. Even if I were to buy a specific vegetable just for a platter, I would just be using the rest up myself anyway. :)

Wait. Wait. Don't they sell carrots like... by the carrot where you live?! You actually have to buy a whole bag??! D:

What is this madness?!

That's fair. Goodness knows I would eat the fuck out of those peppers, though I'm still confused about where you're buying them so cheaply. :( Red peppers are my favorite thing, and I eat them like apples. (Which naturally turned bad for me last time when I bit into one and found the mold after the fact. >_>)

I mean, you can buy carrots by the carrot, if you're buying the expensive gourmet organic ones? But then the price/carrot is too expensive for me, you know? It adds up, even when I wish it didn't. :(

I get regular and imported carrots (the fist sized Asian variety) as well as new carrots (with the tops) at my grocery store. The normal kind are usually on for around $0.79/lb, or ~$0.15/carrot which is significantly cheaper than the bagged variety if you're looking to only purchase a few. The imported Asian ones can go as low as $0.69/lb on sale and those are usually the kind I buy since I only need to get 2-3 of them and it's the same as getting 4-6 normal carrots.

The kinds of bell peppers we have are the pricy organic ones and he sweet bagged kinds and those can run you around $4-5 a bag for 3-5 peppers. However, the ones I get are $2.49/lb which works out to around $0.70-0.80 for one medium bell pepper.

...I now wish I could send you some peppers because there's clearly some produce witchcraft going on.

Edited 2015-12-05 01:48 (UTC)

I did just check, and Walmart (only place with their price online, but generally one of the cheaper places if you're not buying in bulk) has them for $0.86/lb, but I feel icky knowing that now because I hate Walmart. :I I have never seen the Asian variety, though. Peppers are between $1.50~$1.99/pepper, though I don't like the green ones, which probably is messing with the price.

I'm 99.9% sure it's because I'm in a college town, so they jack up the prices, but that might be my bitter student ass talking.

I wish. I like bell peppers. Except when they're moldy. :(

Oh don't worry, I'll be over here joining in your hatred of Wal Mart and being bitter about living in a University town lol.

The worst part is that it's not even a proper goddamn Walmart! It's just a walmart supermarket, which sounds weird to complain about given that I do hate walmart, but as much as I hate it, I don't have a lot of money, and Walmart is cheap, and there have been many times where I've had to put off buying something Important until I could go back to my hometown and go to the walmart there ~~or get my Mum to buy it~~, because everything around here is so expensive. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻.

I count myself pretty fortunate in that I have a local supermarket chain with pretty ridiculously low prices that I can shop at without having to resort to abandoning my morals re: megacorporations.

Otherwise I'm pretty sure I would have never made it through my degree lol.

I do have a decent supermarket here, but it's specialty is bulk items (not like, a costco or a sams club or like that, but bulk items nonetheless).

I meant, less perishable Important Things, like, bras, socks, clothing, stuff like that. Unfortunately, Walmart is the only place I have found that has bras in both (a) my size and (b) price range. There is a nice store in my hometown that sells them, but they run in the $40~$50 range which is a bit much for me.

That's fair. Underwear buying is a giant chore, and moreso for women with the whole having to get decent fitting bras thing. I can see it.

It's the worst. :( I hate it so much.

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