What are your staple fruit / veg / salad items

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Every week I but the same lettuce, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and carrots.

I need to mix up my staples.

What are yours?

The things I buy regularly are leeks, red onions, brown onions, cauliflower, baby tomatoes, mushrooms, avocados. I don’t really buy enough fruit but I am most likely to buy berries of any type.

Broccoli
Carrots
Tomatoes
Peppers
Onion
Frozen peas, green beans and chopped spinach

Pears
Bananas
Frozen berries

In the winter also parsnip and Brussel sprouts
In the summer salad items - lettuce, radish, spring onions
Courgette, asparagus

And avocado!

Mushrooms
Cherry tomatoes
Kale
Broccoli
Potatoes
Red onions
Strawberries
Raspberries
Grapes

We always have lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions, carrots, celery, bananas, and apples in the house. They never go to waste. Any other fruits and vegetables are either in the week's meal plan or were requested by DS for snacks (grapes/blueberries/strawberries/raspberries/melon) and happened to be a reasonable price.

Veg:
Peppers
Carrots
Green beans
Corn
Broccoli

Fruit:
Strawberries
Pineapple
Apples
Tangerines
Kiwis
Grapes
Bananas
Blueberries

Mint
Roasted warm nuts
Rocket
Olives and feta in oil tubs (near hummus
Tubs)

chicory
samphire
pickles

Depends on what's available but generally

Cabbage...got a nice savoy today
Kale
Spinach..alot!
Spring greens
Cauliflower.. although I really resent paying bloody 95 p for it nowadays
Bag of frozen broccoli and Cauliflower..use for soups
Broccoli...chop it small into salads
(Use all the green stuff for salads as well as cooking)
Peppers
Courgettes
Aubergines
Rocket
Avocados
Frozen:
Sweetcorn
Green beans
Peas
Savoy cabbage
Leeks

Fruit:
Oranges
Apples
Bananas
Limes
Lemons
Got a melon today

Tins:
Peaches
Pineapples

Packets:
Cranberries
Prunes
Figs (if not too expensive)

Forgot mushrooms, fresh and frozen
And potatoes white and sweet..

We always have white and/or red cabbage in the fridge. My partner is of Greek heritage and with almost every meal - hot or cold - we usually have lakhano salata. This is finely shredded raw cabbage and grated carrot, dressed with very good olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.

We absolutely love it.

Every week I have

Cougette, spinach, tomatoes, avocado, spring onions, broccoli, aubergine, peppers, chillies, chickpeas

Plus other things I have occasionally like squash, potatoes, carrot, mangetout, corn, olives

At the moment

Cauliflower
Courgettes
Aubergine
Peppers
Onion
Garlic
Asparagus
Kale
Broccoli
Spinach
Watercress
Spring onions
Radishes
Cucumber
Olives

Used to have a small greenhouse at a previous house and I grew some then. The difference is incredible.

Haven't got much space now but would be nice to get a little pot or two on the go

What do people do with spinach?

Creamed spinach, with new potatoes and cod poached in milk 🤤🤤🤤

Pepper, courgette, tomato, cucumber, carrot, sweet potatoes, broccoli onions- every week. Often get mushrooms and avocado too
Bananas, apples, pears, blueberries as standard, plus clementines in winter and strawberries & cherries in summer

Apples, bananas, blueberries (frozen), peas (frozen), raspberries (frozen), green beans, brocolli and one other brassica (eg cauliflower, cabbage or sprouts), mushrooms, carrots, onions including red, salad leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, courgettes and mixed peppers. Sometimes cooking apples, plums or rhubarb for a crumble in winter or strawberries or peaches in summer. Some times parsnips if I am doing a roast. Lemons. Plus clementines in winter. Some tinned fruit. Tinned sweetcorn.

Some are from the freezer, some are fresh.

Apples
Blueberries
Bananas
Raspberries (in season)
Avocado
Lemons

Broccoli
Spinach
Kale or cabbage
Green beans
Carrots
Leeks
Sweet peppers (red, yellow, orange)
Mushrooms
Watercress
Tomatoes
Onion
Aubergine
Butternut squash
Sweet potatoes
Potatoes

Forgot carrots!

Baby corn, broccoli, peas, mangetout, red onion, lettuce, cucumber, peppers, sweet potatoes, sometimes spinach
Apples, strawberries, melon, blueberries, grapes, bananas

Peppers, onions, mushrooms, courgette, red onions, avocado, cucumber, dalad leaves, cherry tomatoes, apples, grapes clementines

Apples, bananas, pears, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, lemons, limes, melon

Cucumber, tomatoes, spinach, rocket, onions, carrots, peas, peppers, broccoli, green beans, beetroot, mushrooms, spring onions, avocado, sweet potatoes, white potatoes.

@MintJulia I want to live at your house!

Cucumber
Tomatoes
Carrots
Peppers
Green beans
Mange tout
Corn on the cob
Peas for the freezer
Brocolli
Onions
Potatoes
That's the veg the kids will eat.
Apples, bananas, satsumas, pears, plums, tinned pineapple, grapes, raisins.
That's the fruit I can afford.

I eat frozen peas most days....I add them to pretty much every meal in some way. I love them and hate chopping.

I quite often shove some spinach in a pan after dishing up and wilt it just for me (no one else likes it).

Other than that it's bananas, dried apricots and I quite like frozen cherries. DS has berries and grapes.

Veg is carrots, broccoli and onions and salad stuff is cucumber, tomatoes and sometimes peppers.

What to do with spinach....
I use it mostly as a salad leaf, in salads with other greens and pulses

As salad part of a sandwich

Add it to most cassetole, stew or sauce dishes...just throw it I'm at the end and it'll wilt in