How much fresh fruit do you buy in your weekly shop?

[RainbowSlidders]

Today I bought the following for a family of four, 2 adults and 2 teens. It got me thinking that maybe we aren’t eating enough fruit as a family? The kids do have carrots/celery/cucumber/red pepper with hummus or frozen berries and Greek yogurt after school, plus there is always three or four types of veg or a salad involved with dinner.

16 bananas
2 nets of normal oranges
2 punnets of blueberries
1 honey dew melon
12 apples
2 punnets of grapes.
will probably buy another bunch of bananas towards the end of the week.

Parents and 1 child at home (last year of primary).

I don't buy fresh berries/expensive fruits. We can't afford it. Child gets it as a treat. I often buy some on Fridays instead of sweets.

We aren't vegetarians but vegetables are important ingrediens. We cook mostly from scratch. We would love to buy more 'luxury vegetables and fruits'.

This week delivery from Tesco.

Child's packed lunch:
5 orange, 5 red apples, 5 plums, 2 cucumbers, 1 kg carrots, 1/2 kg small tomatoes, 5 red baby bell peppers, 1/2 kg blue grapes.

Dinner/fruit to eat over the week:
1.5 kg potatoes, 1 kg betroots, 1 kg carrots, 1/2 kg red onion, 700 gr broccoli, 3 leeks, 1 cauliflower, 600 gr sprouts, 250 gr mushrooms, 3 avocados, 2 lemons, 3 corn cobs, garlic, chieves, 10 tangerines, 10 bananas, 10 apples, 5 pears, 3 grapefruits, 1 muskmelon.

Not fresh but related: 200 gr nuts, 200 gr raisins, 1 glass of olives, 1 glass of pickled cucumbers, 1 kg of froozen peas, 3 cans of sweetcorn, a bag of dried lentils, 2 cans of tomatoes, 1 can of chickpeas.

I probably buy about 5 bananas a month.

Live alone

Bunch of bananas
Pack of 6 apples
Raspberries- punnet
Lemon/lime for recipes
Frozen - one bag mixed berries

In summer I eat strawberries by the punnet so maybe add 4 punnets a week!

2 adults and 2 children (9 and 11). Weekly shop as a minimum has:
24 apples
12 bananas
Bag of clementines
Pack of grapes
Pack of strawberries
Pack of blueberries
4 x 1kg bags of carrots
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Cabbage (for the rabbits)
Green beans
Frozen peas or sweetcorn
Bag of salad leaves
Half a cucumber
Yellow pepper
Cherry tomatoes
2 big bags of potatoes
We nearly always have 'something with veg' for tea, fruit in DH and I packed lunches and extra for snacks, and yoghurt and fruit for puddings.

You said, and I quote, “it’s not needed for a healthy diet”. Not that YOU don’t need it for a healthy diet.

I’d argue that for some people, particularly those who don’t like veg, or for those who, like me, have IBS and a lot of veg (as much as I love it) makes me poorly, it IS needed for a healthy diet.

As a PP said, 2 portions of fruit per person per day. Apples, bananas and whatever is in season.
Veg is potatoes, onions and garlic, carrots, peppers, salad ingredients, courgettes, mushrooms and avocado. Currently lots of cabbage and cauliflower.
Frozen spinach, green beans, minestrone mix, oven chips and berries.

Quantities vary dramatically and the amount I bought seems about average for 4 people.

I can’t remember who asked but yes as a general rule we eat a lot more veg/salad than fruit.

Pretty bloody obvious when I say in answer to the question NONE

Jeez what is it about posters on MN that they read what they want to read?

There's another poster quoting me going on about beans , Ive never even bloody well mentioned beans - I said VEG and Salad Veg

Tend to eat more frozen berries out of season so this week has just been a couple of bags of easy peelers and some lemons and limes

Will pick up a fruit platter tomorrow if one is yellow stickered at M&S (usually are)

Large punnet of blackberries , blueberry's and raspberries. Half dozen bananas .
Am shocked at the price of fresh fruit tbh and might start growing some of my own

2 adults, 2teens here. We buy fruit every three or four times a week and it always includes
4 bananas
bag of apples (6 in a bag usually)
bag of pears (4 or 5 in a bag usually)
bag of kiwis (6 in a bag usually
punnet of raspberries
punnet of grapes
and something else which might be a pineapple, melon, punnet of blueberries or some plums
DD and I eat plenty of veg too; DH and DS less so!

There are only 3 of us. We get about 12 bananas, grapes, cherries and apples/pears. We eat far more veg.

Are you normally this aggressive?

You made a blanket statement that wasn’t correct.

My shopping has just arrived. 2 adults and 16yo bin.
I punnet grapes, 2 bunches of bananas (will buy more, bin only likes them green) 10 oranges, 10 apples, 2 bags of frozen berries.

I’m not a big fruit fan, but I do really like veg. We’re a two adult household.

We tend to buy:

A punnet of plums (only for DP)
Bag of tangerines (only for DP)
A punnet of grapes
Two avocados
Watermelon - I struggle to cutting it up, so I tend to buy it in packets (I’m expected to get flamed for this)
Strawberries
Passata (if that counts!)
We occasionally buy apples too, but they must be Pink Lady.

In terms of veg, we buy:

Two packs of corn on the cob
A cucumber
Peas
Lettuce
A brown onion
Spring onion
Tenderstem broccoli
Potatoes (to make our own chips)
I buy Lazy (pre-chopped) garlic, due to accessibility.
Sometimes sugar snap peas, parsnips and carrots but we haven’t bought any in a few weeks now.

You made a blanket statement that wasn’t correct.

hence the aggression 😂😂

The PP said fruit isn’t necessary for good health. She’s right, if you eat a sufficient amount of vegetables there is no need for fruit. She wasn’t incorrect.

I get you, @suki1964. A lot of 'salad vegetables' are technically fruits anyway, like tomatoes, capsicum peppers, jalapenos, olives, cornichons, capers, squashes, courgettes, aubergines, sweet corn and green beans, of which I eat a lot, even on a restricted diet that rules out many vegetables like onions, garlic, leeks and cabbage.

Funny old world.

Not much fresh fruit in winter tbh.
Maybe a bunch of bananas and a net of oranges between 4 people.

I buy plenty of berries and cherries in summer, apples and pears etc in autumn. But in winter we just have extra veg instead.

@FrustratedandBemused I think @HÆLTHEPAIN was referring to the below?

"Even if you follow the NHS 5 a day - its 4 portions of veg - 1 of fruit"

I will only eat/serve berries on the day I bought them.. but fruit that keeps longer I'll keep 2/3 days. I don't do a weekly shop, just buy when I need for me, dh and two adult kids.

I can go days without fruit.

Never without veg but often my shop might not have fruit in. We don't snack much and I dint make many puddings.

So half my shop can be veg but can also have zero fruit (unless we're being pedantic and counting tomatoes as fruit)

Few punnets of blueberries
Bananas
Satsumas

Your fruit shop seems perfectly reasonable. We are a family of 5 with 3 teenagers and buy a lot of fruit (and veg).

One weeks shop would be:
7-10 bananas
18 apples
punnet of grapes
1L carton orange juice
1L carton apple juice
then either a punnet of strawberries or raspberries or a melon or some satsumas or rhubarb
1 or 2x 500g bags of frozen berries
4x100g bag dried mango
16 nakd bars
Then sometimes a 500g bag of sultanas or some 35g snack bags of dried pineapple or a box of dates

Evenly split that is 2-3 portions of fruit each per day. We eat 4 servings of veg a day as follows:

2 cucumber 600g
3 peppers 600g
punnet mushrooms 350g
1-2 punnets tomatoes 600g
3 avocados 450g
4x400g tinned tomatoes
4x 400g beans (varies between baked, pinto, borlotti, haricot, butter, cannelloni)
800g frozen peas or beans
Typical weekly veg box:
Salad potatoes (1kg)
Onions (500g)
Carrots (650g)
Beetroot (500g)
Celeriac (x1)
Savoy cabbage (x1)
Mixed salad leaves (80g)
Chestnut mushrooms (200g)

Quite interesting working that out. No wonder my supermarket shop is so expensive!

I buy bananas, apples, tangerines and pears every week. Now and again I'll buy a pineapple, a melon and strawberries. The kids take 2 pieces of fruit to school in their lunch boxes every day and kids and I snack on fruit at home. If I run out I do a top up shop.