--- title: Oprah Brings Avocados Grown in Her Orchard When She Travels description: Even Oprah is opposed to the extravagance of avocado toast — so much so, that she brings her home-grown avocados when she travels. canonical: https://time.com/5574283/oprah-avocados/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-19T18:21:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:42.982Z og:title: Oprah Brings Avocados Grown in Her Orchard When She Travels og:description: As one does og:url: https://time.com/5574283/oprah-avocados/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0026eb76291fcd5b/698948a6e76ad21cd063486e/oprah-brings-avocados-from-her-orchard.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 10th Anniversary Women In The World Summit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Oprah Brings Avocados Grown in Her Orchard When She Travels twitter:description: As one does twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0026eb76291fcd5b/698948a6e76ad21cd063486e/oprah-brings-avocados-from-her-orchard.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oprah Always Travels With Avocados Grown From Her Own Orchard Because 'It's Ridiculous to Pay for Avocados'  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 19, 2019 6:21 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: Oprah Winfrey speaks onstage the 10th Anniversary Women In The World Summit at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on April 10, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: Oprah Winfrey speaks onstage the 10th Anniversary Women In The World Summit at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on April 10, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)Mike Coppola—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 19, 2019 6:21 PM UTC Avocados, which [Americans reportedly spend $900,000 on per month](http://time.com/4861608/avocado-toast-cost-spending-americans-square/), have been a contentious topic of financial debate especially since Australian millionaire Tim Gurner claimed that [buying avocado toast was the reason why most millennials couldn’t afford to buy a house](http://time.com/4779855/avocado-toast-home-calculator/); now, it appears that self-made billionaire Oprah Winfrey is entering the fray with her own take on the outrageous costs of Instagram’s most controversial fruit. During an appearance on _The Daily Show_, Winfrey told late night funnyman Trevor Noah that she always travels with the fixings for avocado toast with her at all times. “I travel with my own bread and I bring my own avocados,” she said, before revealing that the avocados come from her own avocado orchard because she thinks “it’s ridiculous to pay for avocados.” The irony of Oprah growing avocados in her own orchard to save on the exorbitant costs of avocado toast were not lost on Noah, who teased the mogul about it. “I made my own avocados because they’re too expensive,” he joked. Since Oprah’s net worth is a whopping $2.9 billion, according to _Forbes_, and she owns multiple homes, including her primary home, a $52 million estate she calls, “The Promised Land,” maybe bringing your own avocado toast a la Oprah is the financial move we should all be making. 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