What fruit actually gets eaten in your household?

[HappyTrance]

When I buy fruit I find too much of it gets wasted if we don’t eat it straight away.

It’s only me and one teenager at home and I try not to waste food but this week I threw out some strawberries which went mouldy and the bananas went brown before we ate them. We also had blueberries and avocados this week and did eat them. It doesn’t help that neither of us particularly like fruit but I buy it to make sure my dc gets a balanced diet or they would be living on chips.

What fruit do you buy and what do you eat or end up throwing away?

Have you tried frozen berries? We only ever have those, much cheaper and no waste. We eat apples a lot as they last ages

We buy apples, pears, bananas, plums, nectarines every week. Occaionally oranges, strawberries and raspberries. Loganberries if we can ever find them.

All gets eaten within the week. Basically, we like fruit.

It’s really annoying because dc both like completely different fruit.
I don’t really eat fruit, I’m more of a veg person.
we usually have
For DS -
braeburn apples ( DS won’t eat green apples)
bananas
pineapple
mango
watermelon

for dd
blueberries
grapes ( green & red)
satsumas
strawberries

sometimes I buy pomegranate, not often though.

We eat apples, bananas, pears, and berries every week.
Sometimes buy oranges, grapes and pomegranates.

Four adults.

Easy peel oranges and the small pears, asda do value packs of them, we get through two bags a week. Anything else is a bit hit or Miss.

grapes
bananas (mashed on toast, mmm)
raspberries (put a handful in a glass of white wine!)
apples
satsumas
pears (buy the ripe and ready to eat ones)
watermelon (I slice it up and put it in a bowl in the fridge for east snacking)
strawberries (I don’t get a look in, DS inhales them)

I sometimes throw away bananas if I forget about them and forget to make banana loaf
Sometimes I forget to eat the raspberries, they seem to go mouldy quite quickly even kept in the fridge
Sometimes satsumas are too big a bag for us to get through

Making a fruit salad and keeping in a bowl in the fridge is a good way to have easy breakfasts/puddings over a few days. Add a tin of pineapple in juice.

Any fruit leftover by Sunday, gets made into some sort of dessert.

Apples, oranges, bananas, melon, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, nectarines when they're in season, grapes, cherries, plums (in season), pears

Apples, pears, plums, nectarines, sometimes bananas and grapes.

Nothing gets wasted.

My DjH likes raspberries, blueberries, oranges, grapes, apples and bananas I'm not fond of fruit so I buy those and he eats them.

I buy:

apples - mostly eaten but some thrown away if too soft
bananas - usually about 3/4 eaten in smoothies
strawberries - nearly always all eaten either on their own or in a smoothie
raspberries - always all eaten in smoothies
blueberries - usually all eaten in smoothies
grapes - about half eaten

DH and I eat more veg than fruit and DD1 is very picky.

We eat a lot of berries, apples, grapes and oranges/satsumas. I eat dates and in the autumn I buy a lot of figs and plums
My son has berries every day with yoghurt. He usually has a piece of fruit with lunch.
We have an allotment and grow most of our own now - particularly berries and plums. I try to eat more seasonally now, I haven't bought berries for about two years.
Today we planted an apple tree, pear tree and plum tree. Fruit gets frozen or made into jam or smoothies if we can't eat it all.
Very rarely throw fruit out.

Every week we eat a mix of Granny Smith apples, grapes, bananas.

if I buy berries especially strawberries or raspberries I make sure that either the dc or I eat them within 48 hours as they deteriorate very quickly and I can’t bear the waste. Sometimes jazz apples.

occasionally buy pineapple melon or mango to chop up. Much better value than the pre-cut that are very tempting to save time.

occasional lime or lemon to chop into drinks. Grapefruit very occasionally.

I’m the only fruit eater and all I buy are apples and bananas and tinned fruit.

Bananas only as I've convinced them to add to breakfast

I think it would be helpful if posters could give an idea of ages of children!
When mine were toddlers,every fruit would be eaten.
Now as pre-teen and teenagers... bananas and raspberries are the only thing I can get them to eat. And they could well go off either in the next week!

Fresh strawberries and bananas.

No fruit gets wasted here. Any fruit that is left after a week, before I go shopping, gets turned into fruit crumbles or fruit pies.

Bananas
avocados
blueberries
kiwi
dates

Its really only me that eats them though. DH will occasionally buy grapes but teen is not a fruit eater, although we do manage to get veg into meals.

I only buy fruit in season and nothing imported (I’m in Australia so everything is grown here and there’s no need to eat imported fruit).

Year-round we eat pink lady apples, oranges, bananas, berries (usually raspberry or strawberries), avocados.

When in season nectarines, plums, mangoes.

I do prefer veg and will make a soup if I’ve got any hanging around.

We put left over fruit and avocados in the freezer. Banana skins turn black and get used for banana bread. Avocados need to be defrosted but turn out just fine, and left over bits of fruit go into puddings or cakes.

There is literally no amount of fruit I can buy that will not get eaten.
My family are a plague of gibbons leaving nothing but peel and pits in their wake.

I love fruit but seem to get through less myself these days as I don't snack on it. I have berries on my cereal sometimes and I always eat an apple after lunch.

Every week I buy strawberries and blueberries (for DS), bananas (mostly for DH although DD now likes them too), apples (for me and DS), most weeks kiwis (we all like them!) and plums (me and DS, in winter satsumas and/or oranges. DD is pretty fussy - she prefers raw veg to fruit - but will eat melon and mango!

On Sundays I do a "fruit platter" for dessert which DD loves, DS hates - usually consisting of slices of apple, banana, sometimes oranges, kiwis etc.

Rarely throw fruit away unless DS not around to eat the berries and they go mouldy!

Normal to have in bananas, grapes, pears. Apples half the time. Over the winter also citrus most of the time, and then melon, stone fruits and berries in summer.

Apart from citrus and bananas, the birds and squirrels will clear up anything that gets a bit old, but very little does as I'll tend to have a bit of a fruit-eating session if I notice it's not being eaten quickly enough. Bananas go into banana bread if left too long.