Making Your Own Roasted Peppers

Making Your Own Roasted Peppers

There are too many prepared food items on our grocery shelves today designed for our convenience. If you took the time to set aside a few minutes of your meal preparation time, you could prepare many of them on your own.  Not only could those few minutes of prep time be a lot of fun, quite often the end result is cheaper doing it yourself.

For example, have you ever checked out the price of a jar of roasted red peppers at the grocery store?  I did a price comparison between the stores by my house and on average, a jar of roasted peppers is anywhere from $6.00 to $8.00 a jar.  Roasting your own fresh peppers is half that amount, plus, you know what ingredients you are using – just the peppers and not any of the preservatives used in the liquid of the jarred version.

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