Save-On-Foods at Saanich Centre, Thrifty Foods did last January, and I just saw it at the Market on Millstream.
Running out of spaghetti squash means it’s time for me to go grocery shopping. Running out of canned green beans means I’m probably snowed in or trying to exist in a post-apocalyptic world. I’m pretty sure those are the two veggies that can always, ALWAYS be found in my kitchen/pantry.
I almost always have romaine lettuce on hand these days, and the most favored dinner-side vegetable in our house is asparagus. Peppers, probably slide in to third, since I buy big bags of them at Costco, but they’d have to duke it out with mushrooms, as I love those too.
I have an organic veg box delivered every week, I don’t think I’ve ever had one without carrots in it. Through the winter, the staples are carrots and parsnips but probably the vegetable I buy most often would be onions.
Me too. Red bell peppers. They’re great raw or steamed or fried or baked or whatever. Stuffed, too. I like nuking them in butter-steam. Mmmm…
Great. Thanks! BTW, I did go by Pacific Rim Pizza on Broughton intending to try it. It was closed. Not sure about Market Square.
Back to the regularly scheduled program 
The humble tomato. I buy some almost every time I shop even if I have some at home, just in case the tomato burglar stopped by while I was out.
Probably zuchinni. It was onions before marriage, but Mr. Lissar hates onions. I toss zuchinni into practically anything with vegetables. After that, red peppers.
Celery. I add it to anything and everything.
Either the potato or the onion. I buy each in equal amounts.
Potatoes, onions and tomatoes, followed by corn and green/yellow beans.
We don’t buy tomatoes, except in cans or from farmers markets where we know they’ve not been refrigerated. Refrigeration makes tomatoes mealy and absolutely ruins the taste of them for us.
But!..
Come summertime, we feast on tomatoes! Our own! Mmm…
Favorite? Fresh white asparagus. (I only ever eat these in Germany; they’re never fresh enough here…).
Just about always have baby carrots and red peppers. I blame a former roommate for the red peppers. I’d never really tried them but they were his favorites. I never buy green ones anymore. (And I’m surprised to see how many people here have mentioned them. I thought it was pretty unusual to buy them…)
I buy frozen veggies at Trader Joe’s: baby peas, asparagus, and haricots verts. Always have vacuum-packed corn on the shelf, black and pinto beans, and other types of beans.
And of course there are the staples: onions, shallots, garlic, potatoes, sweet potatoes.
Usually have a vegetable of the week. This week it’s red cabbage. I’m thinking I’ll make red cabbage with cottage cheese dumplings…yum.
GT
My household loves roast carrots and parsnips, so I’d say that’s the number one.
Broccoli is a close second.
Then tomatoes.
Onions.
Garlic.
Then potatoes.
Then chickpeas (canned), which are delicious and versatile.
Then tinned tomatoes, which, added to chickpeas and spices, make the most superb curry.
Then lettuce, though this annoys the crap out of me because I spend so much time out of the house it tends to go off before I get a decent amount of use of it.
My favorite vegetable is yellow squash. However it is not the vegetable we buy the most of. We buy cabbage all the time because apparently Chinese food can’t be cooked without cabbage. Even dishes that don’t have cabbage in them require cabbage to be in the house. We probably buy 2-3 heads of cabage a week.
Am I the first to say spinach? Spinach is a godsend. Frozen spinach is wonderful in soups and casseroles; fresh spinach is great as a salad, or I also sautee it with garlic and balsamic vinegar. I happily sautee and eat a whole bag of it at least once a week, usually twice.
Most often bought and used are onions (which I agree with WhyNot are so much more about seasoning than being a vegetable), and even more so, broccoli. Broccoli is great. You can steam it as a side dish, make it a hearty part of a stir-fry (on V-Day, having a fairly empty fridge, I took some broccoli, steak, and garlic, and tossed up a nice beef and broccoli stir fry), toss it into a salad, or just munch with some ranch or dill dipping sauce as a snack.
Though my favorite veggie is cucumbers, which are rarely stocked in our house. My lovely Fumando does not like them, and I can’t do much with them for just myself beside toss them on a salad or chop them up as a snack food.
You could have cucumber sandwiches for lunch. Bread, mayo, cuke slices, and an unhealthy quantity of salt and pepper. Mmm.
Tomatoes and beans, all kinds of beans. I’m making a big pot of split pea soup later today, w/ ham, carrots, celery and maybe some onion. I almost always use dried beans and do the “soak over night” routine, much better than canned. I love beans.
I am intrigued. How do you roast a carrot? I mean, obviously you put it in the oven, but do you butter them or put them in a sauce or something?