How much fruit & veg do you buy per week?

Lamb IS in season in october. It is available all year round, but the peak in uk is aug-oct. They are born dec-may.

Yeah, I think apples/bananas/oranges and crisps/biscuits/chocolate are pretty similar in price/value, it's when you go for more exotic or out of season fruit that the gap widens considerably.

I mean, Tesco sells raspberries for £1.32 but they're awful - every time I've bought them, they're soft and go mouldy within 24 hours. If you want the decent ones you have to pay £3 or so which is a lot.

Today I’ve bought
2 punnets of strawberrues
2 of grapes
1 of blueberries
1 of raspberries
6 apples
6 bananas
6 oranges
3 kiwis

2 courgettes
lettuce
cherry tomatoes
broccoli
cabbage
carrots
2 cucumbers

I expect I’ll pick some more up mid week.

It's pretty similar, a six pack of crisps or a six pack of small budget apples are both about a pound.

I'd compare store brand biscuits and crisps with regular fruit and veg, and branded biscuits and crisps with premium fruit and veg, otherwise it's hardly fair.

Yes, sorry, meant with branded products such as Walkers etc.

There are multipacks of crisps etc for around 90p etc but I find these is around the same costing as say, a bag of oranges.

Crisps and biscuits don't cost £2 a pack @kcchiefette - you can get a double pack of Bourbon creams for 58p from Tesco, and a multi-pack of 10 bags of own-brand crisps for £1.35.

This is versus crisps, biscuits etc costing about £2 a packet.

Biscuits are about 60-85p for most types

I dont find fruit and veg too expensive, depending on what you get.

For me and DS in a week:

Bunch bananas (loose) - 90p
Granny smith apples - £1.35
Easy peeler oranges - £1
Punnet of grapes - £2
Raspberries - £1.35
Bell peppers - £1.35
Onions (red) - £1.35
Cherry tomatoes - 80p
Cucumber - 80p
Broccoli - 80p
Carrots (bag) - 35p

This is versus crisps, biscuits etc costing about £2 a packet.

The only fruit I eat is raspberries, I buy a couple of punnets a week at a fiver. DS has apples and bananas every day, that costs around £3 a week. Veg wise I usually buy broccoli, frozen peas, carrots, cucumbers and baby corn.

Strawberries are lovely from the markets from May onwards.

Cucumbers and jacket potatoes are the only things I buy all year round.

I really like Stawberries and Nectarines but they taste awful now.
Wasted buying strawberries. Eat a couple and can't finish them.
Even green apples are hard to eat.

I'm also in the midst of buying pots and compost to start growing veg on my balcony - I used to grow a lot but home life and work caused that to drop back.

But in my 3' x 5' space, I had baby spinach, broad beans, spring onions and leeks, courgettes, radishes, salad leaves, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mange tout, peas and french beans, as well as cherry tomatoes in a hanging basket and chilli's and peppers in pots. And dwarfs french beans and spring onions and salad in window box pots. Think of what grows high that can be trained up a fence and what can fit low down under that, mixing things up and growing things spaced closer together than the books/seed packets say. Use plenty of fertiliser and keep well watered. You can grow a surprising amount in very small spaces.

I should have said I had increased our food budget at home, and I was easily spending at least that just on myself here which is not sustainable. But I am slowly finding ways to reduce it a little - the small shops are very expensive and food is definitely more expensive generally here. But it is getting a bit better in the past few weeks.

@Whatevershallidowithmylife - that’s standard cress not watercress. Watercress is more a large leaf salad, and cress just a small peppery leaf for garnish. We started cress seeds a few days ago on windowsill as they grow really quick so instant delight for 3 year old. They have already sprouted in 3 days, and should be edible within 2 weeks

Strawberries are definitely one fruit I'm fussy with, will only eat British ones. So in season I eat them by the punnet!

Weirdly a strong memory with my dad - There's a tiny farm shop I stopped at one year with my dad, I got some strawberries as they were cheap and he commented how they never seemed to taste as good any more
Got back to the car, bit into one and it sort of exploded with juice, I remember my dads face of sort of oh my god. We got back out the car and bought a shit load more

"Lamb" be can anywhere between 10 weeks to 18 months old.

Yes, they're typically born in spring (in the UK at least) but they're slaughtered year round. Eating lamb in October doesn't mean you're eating out of season.

Shopping came this morning - apples, bananas, pears, oranges and grapes.
Will run out by Friday pm but that's ok as DS will go to his dad's for weekend and I am going to be out most of that time so don't need it sitting there!

Not much veg - just cucumber and tomatoes for our lunches. We have a variety in the freezer but I don't cook a meal until Wednesday (visit grandparents in the interim, bonus!) so to buy it now doesn't guarantee its still good.

It is just the 2 of us.

It's worrying how sone people seem to have no connection or knowledge about where their food comes from these days.

Anything from 10 weeks to one year old. But a one year old lamb will look, to the untutored eye like an adult sheep, not the cute little things you see gambolling in spring fields.

So lambs born in spring won't necessarily be eaten until late summer or even winter.

If you want lambs to be sold in spring for eating, they need to be born in winter.

What is it then if it isn't a young sheep

I wonder if some people think "lamb" sold in the shops is the small animals they see in the fields in April 🤔

It isn't.

@TempleOfBloom I think watercress is what we used to grow on cottonwood at school? Maybe try a packet of seeds?