I don't care for these Save a Lot tomatoes

Most of the time , like even here the prices are low just so they get rid of them. I think that is what happened to you there.

that does happen a lot even here in Mexico you think that you getting a great deal and the next thing you know you have as in your case a woody type or tasteless tomato sorry that you had that happen to you

I have that to be true of many things that are "bargains". Whenever I'm trying something at a really cheap price then I'll only buy a very small quantity. If I hate it then I'm at least not out too much money.

I think it is important to check out their supply source before you let your money leave your wallet. I am sure the attendants around would have the info for you and I wouldn't touch them if I know it is imported from a far place. Normally, a good tomato is glossy, smooth, plump and not overly ripe are the ones to buy. It might surprise you, but the aroma of the tomato is the best indicator of quality – even more so than color. Bring the tomato to your nose and smell the stem and you’ll know. Anyway, I hope you can return to the store and complain about what you had bought, I don't think you should put up with it especially when the store is selling "bad" products. Please don't throw them away as this will be injustice IMHO.

hi dear PQ too bad the tomatoes looked good but were not really good. Happens here as well, I will not forget the nectarines we got us some day in summertime. They looked perfect and were still firm the way we love eating them, and when we cut one it has brown spots inside and the others as well so we had to throw away all of them.

Those tomatoes were most likely frozen and sold for fresh. In places like SAL I would just purchase boxes, canned or dry goods...never fresh foods. Plus, you have no idea what the turn around is in those places. Not like in Walmart of regular supermarkets. They have a time frame to toss food by whether it looks bad or not. Instead of eating those tomatoes in a salad or on a sandwich why not stew them or crush into a small pot of sauce. Then they won't be so bad since there will be herbs and spices along with paste to give them new life again. Then when you can go back to your grocery store for tomatoes you plan on eating.

They probably did get frozen, maybe in transport. Still good in a sauce or soup, though.

i know just what you mean. its more like having cardboard on your sandwich. i to have been disappointed by things i bought cheap at like the dollar or 99 cent store. yet ive also been very pleased with some things being especially high quality for less. we just never know. then when we go back to get the same things that was great, never find them again. someone else found out and beat us to the good stuff

I don't know why they are mushy. I would be disappointed as well. You could ask the store for a refund. I will say that I have not had many problems with the SAL produce before. I always carefully inspect it before buying it though. I smell, feel and thump is necessary. LOL! I hope that you don't give up on cheaper produce.

!! We don't have a Save A Lot here, but oh I've gotten some icky tomatoes before. Blech is all I can say - we want the nice, juicy ones for raw eating. If I only got one or two (which is what I'll only buy if I'm only making a salad for us), then I might toss them. But if it's a bunch that I bought, I'd save them for cooking - especially for soups. Ahhhhh, it's not always easy just looking from the outside how tomatoes will be in the inside!

Sorry to hear about your tomatoes. I usually buy at King Soopers. It has been a long time since I shopped at Save a Lot. It is possible that they were frozen.

In fact, to get the most lycopene into your system from tomatoes you need to cook them, so it isn't the end of the world if you have to cook a batch of tomatoes you bought. When I was growing up we used to eat tomatoes as fruit and I loved them. I was quite surprised in my later childhood or teens to find them served as vegetables. I don't think they produce tomatoes like that anymore.

i'd say tomatoes cost a lot in your place. it's 1.50 euros a kilo here in rome. however, this is beside the point. i think those tomatoes are over ripe. they were late in picking those. you can make pasta sauce from these. just put them in a pot, add olive oil, garlic, and basil. let it boil for a few minutes. this is a nice and simple pasta sauce that's very popular here in italy.

I live a few doors away from a Save A Lot store, and do a fair amount of shopping there. It is convenient for sure, but I am careful not to purchase produce except for what I can use within two days. They go bad faster. I'm not sure where they are getting their produce from, but some of it hits their stores looking shriveled up, or looking good, but in their "last days" of useful life. I find their roma tomatoes to be okay, but I feel them, and they are slightly soft, so I know I have only a couple days to use them. I bought a box of grape tomatoes from their and a few days later, they were shriveled up. I can buy a box somewhere else for money, but they will last a week. I once walked into Save A Lot, saw cucumbers that were not there yesterday, so either they just came in (or were sitting in the back room). They were all wrinkly, so I walked away from there. I've come to the conclusion that I will buy only canned and boxed goods, and some frozen and dairy items, but no more produce or meats from them.

Sounds like false economy to me, and yes I have been caught that way to, I have thought I have been clever at finding the same product so much cheaper, and then realizing just why they were cheaper! I guess you learn the hard way, still, you know where to get them next time and where not to. But it does make you wonder the origins of why they are so cheap and how they are made cheap!

So, you bought pesticide-coated tomatoes that had been shipped across the country, and you are surprised that they are disgusting? Buy fresh. Buy local. I'm certain that there are growers in your area who have good tomatoes. Likely, there is a farmers' market or CSA very near you.