To think 21 bananas a week is crazy?!

[RomeoBunny]

I just counted. We went through 21 bananas in 7 days. I know it's only 1 each a day (3 of us) but looking at it for the week, it just seems crazy. That's £25 a month on bananas alone!

Husband thinks I'm nuts.

I think we need to eat more tangerines

We're very similar! I don't eat one a day but my husband and son do.
We also go through a rididculous amount of apples and oranges.

Provided your budget allows it I don't see an issue. They're healthy, 1 or 2 of your daily allowance (depending on which you subscribe to and size of the fruit) and quite cheap - 15p each max iirc.

If you can afford them, then that's fine. Other fruit don't give what Bananas do.

I eat fruit because I like sweet things, if I had less money, though (I get PIP), I'd have to eat food with refined sugar in.

I wish Jamie would focus on making foods cheaper, as well as putting tax on food.

Don't worry (unless you're needing to cut back on grocery shopping).
We go through 21 bananas and 42 eggs just for breakfast (2 scrambled eggs and 1 banana each) along with toast. More if anyone wants a banana for snack or eggs needed for cooking etc.

Ideally you should be varying your food intake as much as possible. A banana per person every single day is probably not varied enough.

Buy cheaper bananas. I almost never buy bananas because I hate them, but DP likes them every once in a while and I'm always astonished about how cheap they are (normal supermarket bananas, which seem to cost about 10-12 pence each so your monthly banana habit should cost about a tenner).

Or you could just give them up entirely because half of Mumsnet seems to think that they are Very Unhealthy and to blame for the obesity crisis.

Are you eating gold encrusted bananas? YABU!

Huge bananas are 14p each in Tesco. So £12/month at your current rate. In any case 20p for a healthy filling snack or food is a bargain!

Smaller bananas OP? We get through them too. Only wish DC would eat them.

we go through about the same!

I also find it crazy and have never added up how much it costs but we could be eating worse snacks so I am not too bothered!

My ds16 alone eats 28 a week.
And I have 6 x dc.
Only 1 won't eat them and the rest aren't boxing nuts!!
Maybe need a banana farm!!

Roc glad you said about eggs, we go through 2 dozen a week and I think that's mad. Don't get me started on milk.... 36pints of semi skimmed and 10pints of whole Mille every bloody week. And even then we run out. There's 2 adults, 1 child and a toddler.
Might as well buy a cow.

We go through an awful lot of fruit and milk.
4 pints of milk a day!
20 bananas a week
20 oranges
10 apples
6 kiwis
1 punnet of grapes
3 punnets of strawberries
3 punnets of raspberries
2 punnets of blueberries
24 eggs
1 loaf of bread a day!
We're healthy and happy!

When we had all our kids with us (5) we got through 9 a day on average. Now it’s only that per week!

@Ninchninch

Replace kiwi with figs, and some more eggs, and we're the same as you!
I'm so glad other people use the same!

I once did a diet where I ate 3 bananas a day so that was 21/week just for me. bananas are incredibly cheap and are an excellent source of fibre and potassium so I'm not sure what your issue is?

Bananas are one of the cheapest fruits you can buy and No I don’t think 1 banana each a day is excessive tbh.

Are you suddenly on a really tight budget or something? If not I’m not sure what the problem is as food is for eating right?

That's good (provided it's in budget). I wish I could get my 2 DS to eat any fruit!

46 pints of milk a week? Wow

My kids from the ages of 2-5 easily used to eat a bunch a day, 4-5 each. Since 5 they calmed down quite a lot and now eat about 5 a week each and have done for a good few years.

There are a lot of health benefits to eating ripe bananas, so I don't see the problem if you can afford them. We go through a lot ( family of 6), the kids eat them on Weetabix, on toast with peanut butter etc as well as just by themselves !

We are the same! We get through about 18 a week between 2 adults and one child,
Also 3 punnets strawberries
3 punnets blueberries
1 punnets grapes
1 melon
Bag of apples
Bag of oranges
1 mango

That's mainly my daughter, I'm more of a vegetable person!

Wait! What!

25 pounds for 21 bananas?

Is that really right? Or do you shop somewhere really posh.

not in UK but I just cannot get past that bit

I thought from the thread title this would be for just one person lol. That would have been ridicolous! No a banana a day isn't crazy. Maybe unusual and very committed though haha.

Ah per week.

have calmed down now

My toddler almost eats that amount all on his own.