How much fruit & veg do you buy per week?

Bag of carrots
Onions x8
Potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cabbage
2 bags of apples
Bananas
Clementines
Tomatoes
Salad leaves
Bag of rocket
2 twin packs of avocado
2 cucumbers
2 packs of bell peppers

Thats the standard weekly. A pack of celery one a month, maybe some pickled beetroot every other week. We eat a lot of veg - we aim for a low carb non-upf diet.

Loads of apples (cheapest)
Loads of oranges (cheapest)
Loads of bananas
Seedless grapes
Melon

Tomatoes
Cucumber x2
Lettuce
Carrots
Avocado
Peppers

Broccoli
Leeks
3 for 2 veg on offer

Frozen peas
Frozen corn

All Tescos, usually £30-£45 on that each week.

Just me - I order a veg box that comes every 2wks. It's £13, comes with recipe cards, from a local farm, so I batch cook that up.

Supermarket shopping was £40 a fortnight 5yrs ago. Now it's £60 every 10 days.

Lots on veg once or twice a week shop (x5 people) standard:
carrots onion celery peppers potatoes cucumber tomatoes
various salad avocado squash sugarsnap peas spring onions spinach mushrooms garlic spinach courgettes

fresh fruit
bananas apples black grapes watermelon

we gave cut back in a lot of meat to balance out

My thoughts exactly

Just for me
2 punnets of Strawberries,
2 punnets of Grapes.
2 bags of satsumas
7 Bananas
2 tins on mixed fruit
1 Cucumber,
6 Tomatoes
1 packet of salad.
Tinned sweetcorn,
tin of carrots
frozen cauliflower and brocoli,
1 baking potato
1 sweet potato.
Frozen stir fry
and a pack of frozen peppers and onions

Family of four, 1 at nursery and 1 at primary. Generally we buy;
3 bags of apples
6 banana
2 bags of oranges
2 punnets of grapes
2 whole pineapples
Berries/watermelon/melon
Seasonal fruit such as peaches
Pears
3 cucumbers
3 peppers
Carrots
1 or 2 avocados
Salad leaves
Cherry tomatoes
Other fresh vegetables depending on get we are having for main meals

Probably a good third of the shopping budget

Lots. 3 adults. We buy typically 18 apples, 8 bananas, 8 satsumas, , 8 kiwis, frozen blueberries and frozen raspberries, dried apricots and prunes. 2/3 bags salad, 7 peppers, punnet of mushrooms, bean sprouts , mange tout or sugar snap ,3 courgette, 1 aubergine , 1 red cabbage, large bag of carrots, a cucumber, 2/3 leeks, 1 broccoli, bunch spring onions, bag of potatoes, bag of onions, pack of tomatoes, garlic bulbs,celery head, net of lemons, 6 small avocados. Then I have lots of tinned tomatoes, chick peas, butterbeans, sweets, frozen peas, frozen spinach , frozen frozen green beans. All the fresh stuff is used every week and a good dent made in the frozen and tinned.
Shop at Aldi for £80-&90 pw including everything else too.

I buy lots; I always have to do a fruit and veg top up midweek too.
Usual order contains
2 cucumbers
Cherry vine tomatoes
Carrots
Spring onions
Brown onions
Courgettes
Broccoli
Baby corn
Mange tout
Mushrooms

Grapes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Raspberries
Melon
Pineapple
Apples
Oranges
Nectarines/peaches or plums
Kiwi

Plus anything else I see on my top up shop that usually ends up being pretty substantial.
Food has gone up a lot-I feel fortunate that we can get all this for our family.

Anyway, we buy a lot of fruit - twice a week. Apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, kiwi, plums, passion fruit.

Lots of salad veg - lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, radish, celery, peppers, carrots, spinach, rocket, fennel.

What are the cheapest types of veg where you live, OP? And what kind of price would it be? I eat homemade mixed veg soup most days so I'd basically buy whatever was most affordable. Put in all the stalks too, trimmings, everything.

Just you?

We spend that and there are six of us!

This thread is an eye opener for me on how much people spend on fruit and veg and the amount they get through!
Never buy out of season berries.Total rip off. Currently buy bananas, satsumas,British apples for fruit. Veg is usually onions,bell peppers,broccoli,leeks and potatoes. Frozen peas.Veg is very cheap to buy I find and we are eating more veggie and less meat based meals now.

We buy quite a lot of fruit and veg.

It’s by far the cheapest part of our shop every week though, much cheaper than the kids snacks and other fresh food like meat, cheese, butter, any processed food. So I tend to try to make it a big part of what we eat.

We buy probably 3 packs of apples, a big bunch of bananas, a melon, grapes, random other fruit. So the kids often have a piece of fruit with breakfast and then 2 more in the afternoon when they get home.

Plus we have at least one veg with every dinner, so steamed broccoli or sautéed kale or roasted carrots, but sometimes more like with a mostly veg based meal. I do grow a lot of my own veg, so I don’t have to buy all of it.

I would say I spend about £20-30 per shop on fruit and veg, in a shop that’s usually £100-120 a week, so I consider that quite reasonable.

I have kale and cabbage in the garden at the moment for extra greens, I throw in nettles too. I have peas and beans in, but not up yet. Raspberries and rhubarb are coming to life.

Family of 4
DH tends to shop rather than me as he likes shopping (weirdo) whereas I prefer doorstep delivery. We buy the same stuff though.

Bag of onions
2 garlic bulbs
Bag of potatoes
Red cabbage
White cabbage
Celery
Bag of kale
Broccoli (sometimes fresh, sometimes frozen)
Bag of carrots
Mixed peppers
Frozen peas
Frozen green beans
Frozen sweetcorn
Salad stuff in the summer
Bananas
Apples
Grapes
Strawberries/blueberries/kiwi fruit (sometimes)
Tinned pineapple chunks in juice

I buy lots of fruit and veg and feel unwell quite quickly without it.

ideas for making it cheaper:

• Pome and citrus fruits are cheaper than tropical fruits and just as good for you
• veg is cheaper than fruit so buy more. It’s also better for you than lots of fruit (no sugar)
• look for supermarket value ranges
• Cheap but very nutritious veg are cabbage, tomatoes, beetroot, onions, spring greens, cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, sprouts etc.
• Aldi and Lidl are good for cheap fruit and veg.
• Near me the local market in our town centre is also cheaper than the supermarket
• frozen veg is very nutritious - I like peas and spinach best. Tinned parents food too though I haven’t tried it much
• have a look at Oddbox, a delivery box for ‘ugly’ veg that supermarkets won’t sell

This week

Potatoes
Carrots
Onions
Garlic
Beetroot
Swiss chard
Mixed salad

Mushrooms

Avocado
Bananas
Grapefruit

We also have tinned pineapple, and blueberries in the freezer

Last year I planted runner beans and courgettes in a flower bed which cost about £6 in seeds and kept us in two green veggies all summer. My friend grows cucumbers in her sunny porch.

Fruit you have to buy seasonal, Tesco do bags of 6 apples or 6 pears for 89p which isn't bad although more than they used to be, 600g net of easy peelers is 60p standard price this time of year.

M&S yellow sticker time can be amazing. Last week I got 750g blueberries for 80p, 4 big juicy nectarines 45p , a punnet of cherries 70p and all lasted best part of a week. I also sometimes buy reduced apples and pears Tesco had the aforementioned apples and pear packs yellow stickered for 40p a pack I bought ten peeled and chopped it all stewed it with cinnamon (no sugar) and froze into ice cubes, it's lovely on porridge.

Also shop the offers, I got a melon a few weeks ago 1.20 but sliced up it was a lot of melon for the price.

I have found growing blueberries and strawberries in the summer really easy but I live in the south and they just grow in pots in the garden. Always people on Facebook or next door selling seedlings for next to nothing

Root veg is reasonable this time of year too

I now buy a lot of frozen and tinned fruit. I’m careful what the tinned fruit liquids are ie fruit juice or syrups.

I put each opened tin in a different small tub, some frozen fruit to defrost in another. Then each evening as I cook I make up a bowl of fruits for each of us.
I’ll often add some fresh grapes, a satsuma etc or other fresh fruits that I have.

I got fed up of chucking pears and apples etc a long time ago but the price of fruit has made me do this. Not sure if it’s cheaper but I definitely don’t throw fruit away anymore.

I’ve always bought lots of frozen veg but that’s more because I like at least three plus veg with my meal (I prefer not to eat potatoes) and I can’t be bothered with heaps of veg prep. Mid week I check what veg is in the fridge, I menu plan a fair bit meat wise but generally buy random veggies, then if there’s stuff I don’t think I will use I freeze it. Peppers, cabbage, bits of onions, spring onions get chopped and frozen into bags of stir fry veg. If there’s lettuce in the fridge not to be used or a bit past it I chuck it in at the end of stir frying veggies for a Chinese.

celeriac and parsnips I peel within a couple of days of purchasing and chop up into roastie size chunks and freeze, all ready to be thrown in the pot to par boil.
same with a swede, I cook and mash and freeze in useful size portions to microwave when needed.

I've saved money by buying frozen berries - I can't believe I used to buy them fresh tbh, the price difference is huge and since I microwave them with cinnamon and dump them on porridge it makes no difference.

Me, DH and DD4 for all breakfast, dinners and all lunches (except 5 if mine as they're free at work)
So
21 breakfast
16 lunches
21 dinners.

Weekly we usually buy
6 apples,
6 bananas
Bag of cheapest "easy peelers"
1 small punnet of blueberries Or 1small punnet of raspberries.
1 head broccoli.
500g carrots
3 peppers
3 onions
1 cucumber
1 x sweet potato

Monthly or so: frozen veggies
Peas, sweetcorn, green beans, spinach

Also a bag of potatoes that stays in fridge and lasts us a fair while.

Occasionally buy
Cauliflower
Aubergine
Avocado
Pineapple
Watermelon

A typical week for us - 3 adults, 1 teenager:

Potatoes
Carrots
Onions
Apples
Bananas
Satsumas
Some other fruit - whatever is on offer
Lettuce - iceberg for sandwiches plus salad bags
Cucumber
Cherry tomatoes
Peppers x 3
Avocados x 2
Green veg e.g broccoli, green beans

We always have frozen peas and tinned sweetcorn in, and other veg will depend on meals, e.g bean sprouts and pak Choi for stir fry, parsnips for a roast.
We also have frozen blueberries and raspberries for smoothies and to stir into porridge.

We only really buy berries and more exotic fruit as a treat, but I don't think we've especially cut down. I do remember a time when the dc were little (and we were skint) when we couldn't afford avocado even though the dc loved it. Grateful not to be in that position now although I know many people are.

Fresh-Bananas, oranges, grapes. Onions, garlic, potatoes, sweet potatoes, brocoli, spinach, leeks, red pepper, salad tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, aubergine, squash, mushrooms. Frozen- peas, mixed berries. Tinned- sweet corn, olives, 3 types of bean, tomatoes, lentils.
But apart from a bag of oats, rice, pasta, 2 loaves of bread and a carton of almond milk, that's ALL I've bought for my shop. The best way to afford the fruit and veg you want is to buy it instead of meat and fish.