Sweetie, in about half the US, for about 8 months of the year, there ARE no local fresh veggies available. The “fresh” that is here is imported from God knows where, enormously expensive and been off the vine for days by the time we get it. Frozen has all the nutrients of fresh because its frozen the day its picked,…

this article doesn’t take into account people who garden or who have their own nut and fruit trees. When the kids were small we ate tons of apples because my parents and my husbands grandparents had apple trees that bore on opposite years. I canned applesauce, we ate them fresh, frozen in desserts or as part of meals…