How much fruit & veg do you buy per week?

[Heythereorangehead]

And have you had to cut back?
Sort of related to a thread on here already.
Our food shop has gone up around €30/40 per week (live abroad) we both work and have one Dd and a dog. I used to buy lots of veg, salad, fruits etc.
This week I got brocolli, cauliflower, carrots, 1 avocado, tangerines & apples. Dd eats nearly all the fruit and has one fruit for school dinners, I don’t tend to get any fruit now. We used to have fruit for breakfast and after lunch/dinner and lunches & dinners filled with veg, I really feel I’m not getting enough.
How much do you buy and how can I get more fruit/veg in without spending even more?

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.

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.

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.

Just you?

We spend that and there are six of us!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My thoughts exactly

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

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.

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.

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.

Oh and generally a bag of frozen fruit once a week - cherries normally. Frozen spinach and frozen cauliflower once a month

Usually three adults at home

Weekly fruit:
5 bananas
5 apples
Grapes
Punnet raspberries
Punnet blueberries
Bag satsumas
Pineapple or melon or mango.

Weekly veg:
Carrots
Brocoli
Green beans
Spinach
Courgettes

Weekly salad
Pack of little gems
2 bags salad leaves
Tomatoes 8
Cucumber x 2
3 mixed peppers
2 to 4 avocados

Always in:
Frozen peas
Potatoes
Garlic
Red and white onions
Shallots
Tinned tomatoes

There is never any waste

Why are you all spending so much on berries that are out of season?

For 2 adults,

• 800g rhubarb made into a crumble eaten over a few days (2 supermarket packs)
• bag of spuds
• 250g tomatoes punnet for lunches and snacks

We also had last weeks tomatoes to use up so cooked them

• mixed peppers bag of 3
• frozen peas
• frozen mixed veg
• pak choi x2
• radish bag for snacks
• bananas bunch
• half a dozen apples
• sprig onions loads

I live in France and spend about 30€ per week for 2 huge bag for life but only with in season fruit and veg.

I like them all year around

3 adults, although 1 doesn't eat every meal with us. I've been buying strawberries, raspberries and blueberries (requested by 1 adult) for about the last 3 weeks, Probably 1 of each punnet every 10 days, which I wouldn't usually do out of season.

Instead, we normally have a 1kg bag of frozen red berries and a 400g bag of blueberries 🫐 in the freezer for smoothies and breakfast toppings.

Generally I go shopping about once every 10 days and always buy:
14 bananas 🍌 (2 packs of 7)
12 Granny Smith apples 🍎 (2 packs)
5 oranges 🍊
1kg wonky grapes 🍇 (2 punnets)

Every few weeks, I'll mix it up a bit and also buy 2 or 3 other items such as:

a punnet of plums, nectarines/ peaches 🍑 or kiwi fruit 🥝 or
a bag of pears 🍐
and some tangerines/clementines/satsumas, etc.

I also buy dried fig, dates, prunes, apricots and sultanas, and every few months, or as needed, I'll buy lemons 🍋 and/or limes.

I generally buy what's on offer (the same with all my shopping).

Veg-wise, every shop we buy:

2 iceberg lettuces 🥬
3-4 cucumbers 🥒
12 salad tomatoes 🍅 (2 packs)
2 bags of mixed peppers 🫑 (about 1.2kg in total)
1 bunch spring onions

Sometimes these salad items require topping up before I would do another main shop.

We also always have in stock (either bought frozen already, or bought fresh and stored, then frozen if necessary):

potatoes 🥔 red+white (baking, roasting, mash)
brown onions🧅
red onions
garlic 🧄
Ginger, fresh 🫚 which I freeze
mushrooms 🍄‍🟫
aubergines 🍆 which I prep and freeze
leeks which I prep and freeze
Broccoli 🥦 usually bought frozen
Beetroot, cooked
Cauliflower, usually bought frozen
Peas 🫛 frozen and mushy (tinned)
Green beans, usually bought frozen
Carrots 🥕 usually bought fresh
Edamame beans
Broad beans
Sweetcorn/corn on the cob 🌽
Avocados 🥑 bought when on offer and frozen
Courgettes

I also regularly buy cherry tomatoes, and once every few months, I'll buy these, as needed:

celery
butternut squash
sweet potatoes
mangetout, sugar snap peas
and any other veg as required for a recipe I'm making, eg, beansprouts.

I also keep a stock of tinned and dried pulses, as well as tinned tomatoes and a few tins of sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots, etc.

I would estimate that just over half the cost of my shopping (if not more) is spent on fruit and vegetables of some description.

If it wasn't for my adult dc (19) still living with us, I wouldn't buy fresh berries out of season at all, though.

I've definitely noticed a large increase in prices, too, often alongside a decrease in the size of the product.

We eat quite a lot veg but more in summer I think

I get a lot of whatever fruit is on special- this week it was grapes, last week strawberries

Then the usual bananas, I'd say two bunches a week

Veg would average 4/5 onions, 2 kilos spuds, a broccoli, carrots and a cauliflower. Try and eat spinach too

I also make tons of apple sauce when apples are cheap and we have that throughout the winter

There's rarely* *any waste, and I tend to freeze things like the cauliflower/broccoli stalks, etc, to use in soups at a later date.

At this time of year, though, my mainstays are apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, mixed peppers and onions, including spring onions.

We also occasionally buy mangoes 🥭 when needed for a recipe we love (mango chicken).