Pickled vegetables
Vegetables preserved in brine or vinegar — fresh summer crop kept tart and edible into the cold months.
Pickled vegetables in a dream are the dream's image of fresh summer crop kept usable into the cold months by being made tart. The pickle is a compromise; the vegetable is not the same, but the vegetable still exists. The dream brings the pickle when something in your life — a friendship at distance, a memory of a summer, a piece of training kept for later use — has been preserved by a process that changed what was preserved. Pickled vegetables eaten with thanks in winter are the dream affirming the keeping. Pickled vegetables thrown out because they are not fresh is the dream noting that the preservation was honest and the cost of it is being held against the supply.