How much fruit & veg do you buy per week?

I tend to buy seasonally so at the moment lots of root veg that ends up in soups and casseroles, I’ll buy tinned tomatoes and sweetcorn, frozen green beans, peas and broccoli and always have onions and potatoes/sweet potatoes in the house.

Fruit wise I’ll buy bananas, apples, easy peelers and blueberries fresh and frozen berries for smoothies and to have for breakfast with yoghurt and granola. I’ll occasionally buy fruit to make a dessert eg cranachan or a fruit pavlova but otherwise fresh soft fruit is a summer treat.

Carrots
Broccoli, two heads
Onions
Celery
Frozen peas and sweetcorn mix, eg
Tinned tomatoes

Apples
Sometimes bananas

I've got an allotment and freeze green beans, plums, blackcurrants, gooseberries, blackberries and raspberries for the winter. In summer I grow strawberries.

How are you eating at least an entire punnet of berries, 2 oranges and a punnet of exotic fruit every day ... But somehow claim a pineapple won't last? If you're eating that much fruit, you'd demolish the pineapple in 2-3 days..

And if you're eating presumably 2 punnets of pre-sliced mango (assuming, because you say it's £5) again, you'd eat that much in 2 days... So how come they don't last? A mango would cost you £1.50(ish) ... Not sure why you'd spend £5 on a pre-sliced one?

Also, if you're buying 7 aubergines a week, why would they be £1 each??

just curious! Wondering if it's just a "lazy" habit you've got into buying pre-sliced mangoes and pineapple?

It’s not insane if you like them and happy to pay the price.

They really aren't. Just like out of season apples.

But this is why people think fruit and veg is expensive, buying imported, out of season soft fruit is insane.

I buy them 12 months of the year - they’re lovely.

They're not...

I am gobsmacked by people buying fresh strawberries and raspberries in February. You are all mad. They will be super expensive and tasteless.

@hangingonfordearlife1 bow about spinach in your curry? Or a totally veg curry? Carrots, celery and mushrooms in your spag bol? Stuff that veg in! 😊

I buy onions, garlic, potatoes, green pepper, carrots, mushrooms, tomato, cucumber and lettuce every week-
Fruit-strawberries, apples, tangerines and bananas, sometimes grapes and nectarines just depends whats on offer.

We tend to eat curries, chilli, spag bol, chicken, rice and salad etc and dont have meals which include extra veg on the side so dont bother with brocolli, cauliflower sort of things.

Pre cut fresh mango/pineapple/melon. As it’s only just me a whole one gets wasted before I can eat it and I’d rather pay more for less food waste. Buy at Waitrose or my local farm shop as Sainsbury’s and Tesco fruit seems to go rotten faster. All adds up.

Precut mango = £5
Nice raspberries = £3
Nice strawberries = £3
Blood oranges = 4 for £3
Precut Pineapple = £4

That lasts about two days and is about £72 a week on fruit. Often more though. Then I buy vegetables (eat a lot of them) - aubergines I can get through 7 a week. So that’s £7 right there…

If you like really good quality meat and fruit then it does add up quickly

I don't stick to the same things every week, I tend to look at what's on offer and plan my meals around that. We changed to frozen broccoli, sweetcorn and cauliflower which seems to have saved us money.

I found a receipt from 2021 recently and seeing the price increases was shocking. I've thrown it away but the ones I remember were 1kg onions 50p and whole cucumber 39p. Both of those things cost double that now, so its unsurprising people are cutting back.

You're buying out of season, heavily packaged fruit that must be transported a long way and stored carefully.

Seasonal things are much cheaper.

Supermarkets are more expensive than markets.

@user1471428569 - we buy fresh berries sometimes as it’s one thing fussy toddler will actually eat. So although we also buy frozen and seasonal veg, I don’t mind the odd punnet of fresh berries.

They are actually being grown a lot more in country where we live now (Central Europe), our blueberries last week were grown here in greenhouses. So cost a bit more than seasonal, but from about 2hr drive away.

Oh, I forgot spinach, which we buy regularly.

There's rarely* *any waste, and I tend to freeze things like the cauliflower/broccoli stalks, etc, to use in soups at a later date.

At this time of year, though, my mainstays are apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, mixed peppers and onions, including spring onions.

We also occasionally buy mangoes 🥭 when needed for a recipe we love (mango chicken).

I also make tons of apple sauce when apples are cheap and we have that throughout the winter

We eat quite a lot veg but more in summer I think

I get a lot of whatever fruit is on special- this week it was grapes, last week strawberries

Then the usual bananas, I'd say two bunches a week

Veg would average 4/5 onions, 2 kilos spuds, a broccoli, carrots and a cauliflower. Try and eat spinach too

3 adults, although 1 doesn't eat every meal with us. I've been buying strawberries, raspberries and blueberries (requested by 1 adult) for about the last 3 weeks, Probably 1 of each punnet every 10 days, which I wouldn't usually do out of season.

Instead, we normally have a 1kg bag of frozen red berries and a 400g bag of blueberries 🫐 in the freezer for smoothies and breakfast toppings.

Generally I go shopping about once every 10 days and always buy:
14 bananas 🍌 (2 packs of 7)
12 Granny Smith apples 🍎 (2 packs)
5 oranges 🍊
1kg wonky grapes 🍇 (2 punnets)

Every few weeks, I'll mix it up a bit and also buy 2 or 3 other items such as:

a punnet of plums, nectarines/ peaches 🍑 or kiwi fruit 🥝 or
a bag of pears 🍐
and some tangerines/clementines/satsumas, etc.

I also buy dried fig, dates, prunes, apricots and sultanas, and every few months, or as needed, I'll buy lemons 🍋 and/or limes.

I generally buy what's on offer (the same with all my shopping).

Veg-wise, every shop we buy:

2 iceberg lettuces 🥬
3-4 cucumbers 🥒
12 salad tomatoes 🍅 (2 packs)
2 bags of mixed peppers 🫑 (about 1.2kg in total)
1 bunch spring onions

Sometimes these salad items require topping up before I would do another main shop.

We also always have in stock (either bought frozen already, or bought fresh and stored, then frozen if necessary):

potatoes 🥔 red+white (baking, roasting, mash)
brown onions🧅
red onions
garlic 🧄
Ginger, fresh 🫚 which I freeze
mushrooms 🍄‍🟫
aubergines 🍆 which I prep and freeze
leeks which I prep and freeze
Broccoli 🥦 usually bought frozen
Beetroot, cooked
Cauliflower, usually bought frozen
Peas 🫛 frozen and mushy (tinned)
Green beans, usually bought frozen
Carrots 🥕 usually bought fresh
Edamame beans
Broad beans
Sweetcorn/corn on the cob 🌽
Avocados 🥑 bought when on offer and frozen
Courgettes

I also regularly buy cherry tomatoes, and once every few months, I'll buy these, as needed:

celery
butternut squash
sweet potatoes
mangetout, sugar snap peas
and any other veg as required for a recipe I'm making, eg, beansprouts.

I also keep a stock of tinned and dried pulses, as well as tinned tomatoes and a few tins of sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots, etc.

I would estimate that just over half the cost of my shopping (if not more) is spent on fruit and vegetables of some description.

If it wasn't for my adult dc (19) still living with us, I wouldn't buy fresh berries out of season at all, though.

I've definitely noticed a large increase in prices, too, often alongside a decrease in the size of the product.

I like them all year around

I live in France and spend about 30€ per week for 2 huge bag for life but only with in season fruit and veg.

For 2 adults,

• 800g rhubarb made into a crumble eaten over a few days (2 supermarket packs)
• bag of spuds
• 250g tomatoes punnet for lunches and snacks

• mixed peppers bag of 3
• frozen peas
• frozen mixed veg
• pak choi x2
• radish bag for snacks
• bananas bunch
• half a dozen apples
• sprig onions loads

Why are you all spending so much on berries that are out of season?

Usually three adults at home

Weekly fruit:
5 bananas
5 apples
Grapes
Punnet raspberries
Punnet blueberries
Bag satsumas
Pineapple or melon or mango.

Weekly veg:
Carrots
Brocoli
Green beans
Spinach
Courgettes

Weekly salad
Pack of little gems
2 bags salad leaves
Tomatoes 8
Cucumber x 2
3 mixed peppers
2 to 4 avocados

Always in:
Frozen peas
Potatoes
Garlic
Red and white onions
Shallots
Tinned tomatoes

There is never any waste

Oh and generally a bag of frozen fruit once a week - cherries normally. Frozen spinach and frozen cauliflower once a month