I have pondered this and looking on the positive side these would be awesome for people that perhaps have seizures and are concerned about using sharp knives. Could be handy for the elderly that have arthritic hands and find it painful to chop veggies.

Onion is not the only vegetable packed this way. There is quite a lot of others. People with arthritis or injuries to their hands use them. They have difficulty peeling and cutting some types of vegetables. These containers are firm plastic so they can be rinsed and put in your re-cycle bin or even washed thoroughly in soapy water and re-used. When they mark them down the often lose money on them but that is better than just throwing food and container straight into a bin, then to landfill.

I was always told you have to use onion right away after you cut it because it absorbs all kinds of nasties really quickly and its really dangerous to eat.

Not something I would buy but if someone else wants to then they will stock to demand.

I can understand helping those with disabilities. Certainly wouldn’t be something I’d buy – $10/kg for onion is ridiculous even if it is cut – doesn’t take long to do.

I understand the concern about the waste of plastic.
I also understand that for some people that are either time poor or just hate cutting onion, that this can be very handy.
But there was already frozen packaged diced onion and there is also awesome machines that dice onions for you in a jiffy

I wouldn’t buy it regularly, but there would certainly be the odd ccassion it’d be a lifesaver.

Interesting at the price reduction so I don’t think a huge demand. It’s not hard to cut up an onion and much cheaper to do your own. I use a Tupperware slicer so everything is contained within the unit and no tears for me.

I prefer to cut up my own veg to my liking and desired size.

They used to sell diced onion in the freezer. They were 2kg bags and I’m not sure if they also had 500gm bags. They were very handy to have. Since I don’t use onions very often now I dice a few onions and then put them in my freezer in re-usable containers.

If someone wants to buy it , is their choice, I cut up what I need and to use, pity to see some wasted. Price is reduced, so not selling as fast. Different stores have more call to purchase then another. if not selling well Coles can always stop supplying . depends on demand.

I walk past these pre-cut vegetables and laugh. Look at the cost of the onions, $10 a kilo. However, for someone with a disability, I imagine it would be of great benefit.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 01 Jul 2019 , 3:38 am

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  Wow! – $10 a kilo for onions! Goodness!

It’s lazy – but people are clearly buying it. I wouldn’t.

Also about the packaging, you cannot put these containers in the Redcycle bin at the supermarkets, they go in the recycle bin, so please look up online what you can put in your recycle bin and what goes in the redcycle bin at supermarkets, and I wish they would empty them more often, every time I go there to put plastic wrappers in they are full.

Make sure you rinse them before use, you can pick up a lot of germs from pre-cut food. I personally don’t buy because I like to cut up my veggies fresh, once cut they loose a lot of nutrients.

I don’t seethe problem. I have no need for it, but others might be stoked to not have to dice an onion!

It’s lazy shopping in my estimation, but if it wasn’t selling then it wouldn’t be on the shelves.

I would buy it if they had it cut up really small like in Maccas cheeseburgers. Otherwise I do it myself, as eye watering as it is.

Who cares, what ever works, if it sells then people have voted

Not something I would buy. But if they sell it, it means there are people buying it, so there is enough market.