Tuesday, September 27, 2011

$5 Guacamole

While I was shopping at Publix on Saturday, I came across a great sale on avocados. The giant green-skinned avocados were on sale from $3.49 each to $1 each!! They were not quite ripe yet, so I bought 3. Californians: you have to understand that 1 of these giants is akin to about 4-5 Hass avocados. They are huge! They are a bit softer in texture than the Hass variety, but still very delicious. I used up 1/2 of one on a few salads over the weekend, but yesterday I realized that they were ripe and it was do or die. So, I decided to make a huge batch of guacamole. I used 2 large avocados, 4 large cloves of fresh garlic, 1 lemon, 1 red diamond tomato (a HUGE one), 2 small red onions, 1 tbsp kosher salt, and a generous sprinkling of onion powder and garlic powder. I ended up with a ridiculous amount of fresh, delicious guacamole and decided to experiment with freezing it. I froze 5 ziploc bags of it and kept a 12 ounce bag in the fridge. I ended up with 59.9 ounces of guacamole for about $5 with all the ingredients I used. You pay about $5 for a 16-oz container at the market!!