Cooking Vegetables
Varieties
Sales Strategies
- Many consumers only think about vegetables in terms of side dishes, but cooking vegetables make a tasty addition to many entrees. Offer recipes for stuffed peppers, stuffed potatoes and stir fries.
- Root vegetables have recently been lauded for their health benefits and their versatility in being a carb replacement. Play on those strengths in signage and sales. You can also cross-merchandise them with soup fixings.
- Grilling season offers up a fresh opportunity to promote cooking vegetables as many of these veggies go great on the grill. Cross-promote potatoes, peppers, artichokes and onions with grilling utensils, spices and rubs.
- Samples can help familiarize consumers with lesser-known vegetables.
- Include cooking vegetables in all of your holiday promotions. Asparagus is a favorite around Easter, and broccoli and green beans are a popular side dish for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Don’t forget pumpkins, sweet potatoes and cranberries for those fall holidays. Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are a great time to promote a mix of vegetables that consumers can grill.
- Let your consumers hunt for their own great pumpkin in a pumpkin patch them while using pumpkins to boost the sales of other fall vegetables, like squash.
- During the winter, create a soup vegetable display. Include leeks, celery, potatoes root vegetables and fresh herbs.
Dynamic Displays
- The cooking vegetable category is best displayed in small groupings of similar vegetables. Potatoes and onions are a natural pairing while broccoli, green beans, asparagus and artichokes often find themselves grouped together as they can be served as a stand-alone side dish. Squash, turnips and rutabagas make an eye-catching display when grouped together.
- There is some cross-over with salad vegetables, so decide where those cross-over vegetables work best in your store. Tomatoes and peppers may move better when grouped with the salad vegetables.
- Don’t let your greens get lost in your lettuce display. Give them some space and offer up recipes and cooking tips to get consumers thinking about the many uses of greens.
- Include garlic in your tomato and herb displays to get it moving along with these popular items.
Perfect Pricing
- Because of the variety available within the category, combination pricing promotions are difficult for this category.
- Most vegetables in this category can be priced by the pound or by the piece, whichever works best for the target consumer base.
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Green Gardens Produce
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Fertile, 56540-9167
Minnesota
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Rutabagas, Zucchini Squash
Yokiel Darin
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Freeborn, 56032-0089
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Peas
Derrydale Farm
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Belle Plaine, 56011-4411
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Garlic, Peas
Deweerd Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Pipestone, 56164-1754
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Peas
Danville Dairy
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Minnesota Lake, 56068-3211
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Peas
Dry Creek Farms
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Goodhue, 55027-8145
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Peas
Do Over Dairy
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Rollingstone, 55969-4107
Minnesota
Cooking Vegetables:
Peas
Salad Vegetables:
Radishes
D & D Johnson Farm
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Young America, 55397-9413
Minnesota
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Beets, Onions, Bulb, Potatoes
Salad Vegetables:
Spinach, Celery, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Radishes, Tomatoes
Wei Amador Hill Farm And Orchard
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
North Branch, 55056-6807
Minnesota
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Melons:
Watermelon
Stone Fruit:
Cherries
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Eggplant
Grain Millers Consumer Products
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Eden Prairie, 55344-7268
Minnesota
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn
