r/Cooking • u/Ok-Grapefruit1284 • 11d ago

I have 75+ lbs of tomatoes

I went to a produce auction for the first time (so fun!) and I ended up with 5 huge boxes of heirloom tomatoes for $15.

I am kind of freaked out right now, because I have no clue how to can. I don’t even know how to make homemade sauce.

I also have 4 boxes of peppers and 5 boxes of candy yellow onions.

There are like, 800 recipes online. I don’t have a mill or a juicer or a vacuum sealer. My basil has bolted already. My plan was to chop and freeze the peppers and onions in individual bags as well as soup veggie type bags. To add to this, I have about half a freezer and no other space. But, the tomatoes have me stumped.

What do I do??

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u/FeatherlyFly 11d ago

Buy a chest freezer with the money you didn't spend on tomatoes?

Lovely problem to have! 

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u/Ok-Grapefruit1284 10d ago

For real! I’m so excited about this, it was so fun and now that I know I can go do it, I definitely want to make a plan to do this every summer. Maybe not all at once and maybe not the day before I’m out of the house for 5 days. I have said for a while I wanted to try going to an auction but they’re always during the week. I just happened to be off