How much fruit & veg do you buy per week?

Family of 5, the 3 dc are between 11-16 years old shopping averages £190 a week. This week I bought:-
2 punnets red grapes
2 punnets green grapes
6 red apples
12 green apples
14 bananas
12 kiwi
4 punnets blueberries
2 packs of 3 passion fruit
2 nets of easy peelers
1 watermelon
2 mangoes
2 punnets strawberries
2 punnets raspberries

vegetables :- 3 packs mini peppers
3 packs mini cucumbers
3 packs sugar snap peas
2 broccolis
1kg carrots
2 packs of 3 normal peppers
3 large cucumbers
2 packs of 6 vine ripe tomatoes
1 pack baby plum tomatoes
500g Brussels sprouts
500g mushrooms
2 packs tender stem broccoli
cauliflower
spring onions
1 kg brown onions
2.5kg Maris piper potato
2 packs green beans
savoy cabbage
3 bags of bistro salad
3 packs of 2 corn on the cob
3 packs of baby corn
bag sweet potatoes

2 packs of frozen peas
1 pack frozen sweetcorn

Can you buy frozen or tinned to top up your intake?

its because she's spending £5 each on pre sliced mango and pineapple every other day!

Well, I don't have access to either of those things so I wouldn't know.

There's no way that imported strawberries that have been stored for X amount of time taste the same as a local strawberry in season that has been freshly picked

As I said, I don't notice the difference but then again I don't think most UK-grown supermarket strawberries are much to write home about anyway. They all taste of nothing to me 😂

If DH didn't like them I wouldn't buy them.

Haven't cut back. Actually maybe buying a little more as I'm trying to eat more fruit. This week we've had:

Fruit
2 packs of grapes
Sweetclems
2 x bunches of bananas
Pack of 6 apples
3 x pack of apple slices
Big Watermelon
Usually get pineapple but I forgot to order one.

Veg:
Lettuce
Cucumber
Cherrie Tomatoes
Grapevine tomatoes
Onions
Carrots
Peppers
Avocados

They definitely don't taste the same. The problem is people have got used to poor quality food so they think that's how it's supposed to taste. It's the same with chicken. Cheap massed produced chickens that never see the light of day, and are pumped full of chemicals to make them grow quick for a high turnover are no where near the the flavour and quality you get from a free range or organic chicken.

There's no way that imported strawberries that have been stored for X amount of time taste the same as a local strawberry in season that has been freshly picked

Is that £200 on food for just you or £200 on groceries including laundry detergent, dish soap etc

5 kids and 2 adults, we get through a lot. Kids are fruit mad and DH loves smoothies

25 bananas
4 punnets grapes
3 bags of oranges
6-8 avocados
2kg carrots
bag of frozen sweetcorn
3-5 broccoli
fresh corn cobs
1kg each red and white onions
3 heads of lettuce
10 pink lady apples
frozen peas
2-3 leeks
2 Butternut squash
3-4 cucumbers
6 tomatoes (only one eater in this house)
9-12 peppers
Lots of spinach
Bag of frozen berries (good for jam too)
occasionally green beans.

We eat lots of veg, and I use leftovers for batch cooking at the end of the week

@lifebeginsaftercoffee That is not true - soft fruit like strawberries are significantly cheaper in the summer, especially in farm shops and on market stalls.

2A 3C. this week:

cabbage
mini corns
mangetout
leeks
potatoes
carrots
onions
broccoli
tender stem broccoli
peppers
celeriac
tomatoes
cucumber x2
rocket
cos lettuce
radishes
herbs
sweetcorn
tangerines
bananas
raspberries
blueberries
apples
pears
kiwis
lots bananas
grapefruit x2
lemons
limes
large oranges

plus meat, dairy etc Shopping bill £135. We eat quite healthily.

I may well do this. Thinking of getting a plum tree but will take ages for it to bear fruit.

I get a large fruit and veg box delivered and base meals around it.

Typical week might see us buying bananas, apples, strawberries#, raspberries#, big bag of mixed salad, cucumber, three sweet peppers, onions or red onions (probably alternate 1kg a week of each), cauliflower, 1kg carrots, broccoli or cabbage, fresh herbs (mostly parsley or coriander). We also every couple of weeks buy something else to make soup - this week it was leeks, last week parsnips, the week before a big box of mushrooms.

#I know, they're better in summer, but DD and DW still enjoy them out of season. I don't usually bother with tomatoes in winter though. They really are mostly pointless.

No more expensive than in the summer and they taste pretty much the same.

Forgot sweetcorn!

I buy the same every week;
I don't really eat fruit at all.

Carrots
Onions
Celery
Mushrooms
Garlic
Cabbage
Broccoli
Leek
Potatoes sweet potatoes
Chillis
Tinned tomatoes

This week I also bought
Cucumber
Salad tomatoes
2 bags of iceberg

Same here bought blueberry bushes, cleared a part of garden for simple fruit and vegetables.

I live alone and tend to buy:

apples
oranges
pineapple
dates
fresh or frozen blueberries
plums
lettuce
tomatoes
beetroot
peppers
olives
peas (frozen)
spinach (frozen)
baked beans
courgettes
Aubergines
potatoes
sweet potato
celery

Some of the above I’ve grown and will grow again. Stepdad has an allotment and gives me anything he has a glut of so chard, courgettes etc.

People have come to expect to eat seasonal fruit/veg all year round. I agree that imported fruit/veg that has been picked and stored and then flown miles to the UK is tasteless.

When I was growing up in the 60s/70s, we used to go to "pick your own" strawberries in the summer, then later on it would be plums and my mum would make jam and plum pies. Then at Christmas it would be satsumas. Now you get these all year and people moan about the COL and climate change. Of course out of season fruit and veg are expensive you're paying for the luxury of it being imported.

@Devilshands you are spending £200 a week on food for one person and you eat stuffed aubergine every day? I mean I love stuffed aubergine but it isn't exactly an expensive meal. Your budgeting is insane!

I am vegetarian so fruits and vegetable make most of my food shopping.

I have decided to start a small vegetable garden in my back garden to try to grow my own and also some berries. I bought a lemon tree too.

Basically I thought it might be a good way longer term to cut down on my food costs.

Just 2 adults here.

I spend around £20 -£25 a month on fruit and veg which is a third of our weekly shop of £60 - £75.

Bananas
apples/pears
Satsumas or nectarines
1 punnet mixed grapes
1 punnet of blueberries or raspberries/strawberries
Occasionally a melon
Frozen berries in freezer

Salad is usually lettuce, spinach or rocket with cherry tomatoes and occasionally cucumber and celery.
I buy onions, carrots, broccoli, peppers and mushrooms
Potatoes
Broccoli and courgettes occasionally. Sometimes red cabbage.

Frozen peas and sweet corn and butternut squash.

We manage our 5 portions a day from that usually more.

This week we got:

Bananas
Oranges
Strawberries
Apples
Tomatoes
Red peppers
Cucumber

But we eat a lot of frozen veg on top of that.

A family pack of recipes mango is £5 in my local Waitrose. It’s 450G. I have mango as a snack and in salads. So it really doesn’t go far. Ditto with pineapple which I add to my meals and have as a snack.

Without fail every whole mango I have bought has always been black inside. I prefer to pay more and know I am getting something good. With pineapple at 450G a pack which is £4 lasts two days. A whole pineapple would either be rotten or end up rotten before I ate it as one is about 1KG

An aubergine in my local Waitrose or farm shop is £1 per aubergine. I have stuffed aubergine as as a meal (with Moroccan spiced lamb mince and it’s incredible). I have that seven times a week either as a big lunch or dinner…

I could get cheaper from Sainsbury’s but quite frankly the quality of their veg is average at best and rotten at worst. The pre-cut fruit is much the same! At least in Waitrose or my farm shop their precut isn’t rotten. Admittedly I could buy cheaper but good quality food and not wasting food are my big things I’ll never let go!