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?

No more expensive than in the summer and they taste pretty much the same.

Typical week might see us buying bananas, apples, strawberries#, raspberries#, big bag of mixed salad, cucumber, three sweet peppers, onions or red onions (probably alternate 1kg a week of each), cauliflower, 1kg carrots, broccoli or cabbage, fresh herbs (mostly parsley or coriander). We also every couple of weeks buy something else to make soup - this week it was leeks, last week parsnips, the week before a big box of mushrooms.

#I know, they're better in summer, but DD and DW still enjoy them out of season. I don't usually bother with tomatoes in winter though. They really are mostly pointless.

I get a large fruit and veg box delivered and base meals around it.

I may well do this. Thinking of getting a plum tree but will take ages for it to bear fruit.

2A 3C. this week:

cabbage
mini corns
mangetout
leeks
potatoes
carrots
onions
broccoli
tender stem broccoli
peppers
celeriac
tomatoes
cucumber x2
rocket
cos lettuce
radishes
herbs
sweetcorn
tangerines
bananas
raspberries
blueberries
apples
pears
kiwis
lots bananas
grapefruit x2
lemons
limes
large oranges

plus meat, dairy etc Shopping bill £135. We eat quite healthily.

@lifebeginsaftercoffee That is not true - soft fruit like strawberries are significantly cheaper in the summer, especially in farm shops and on market stalls.

5 kids and 2 adults, we get through a lot. Kids are fruit mad and DH loves smoothies

25 bananas
4 punnets grapes
3 bags of oranges
6-8 avocados
2kg carrots
bag of frozen sweetcorn
3-5 broccoli
fresh corn cobs
1kg each red and white onions
3 heads of lettuce
10 pink lady apples
frozen peas
2-3 leeks
2 Butternut squash
3-4 cucumbers
6 tomatoes (only one eater in this house)
9-12 peppers
Lots of spinach
Bag of frozen berries (good for jam too)
occasionally green beans.

We eat lots of veg, and I use leftovers for batch cooking at the end of the week

Is that £200 on food for just you or £200 on groceries including laundry detergent, dish soap etc

They definitely don't taste the same. The problem is people have got used to poor quality food so they think that's how it's supposed to taste. It's the same with chicken. Cheap massed produced chickens that never see the light of day, and are pumped full of chemicals to make them grow quick for a high turnover are no where near the the flavour and quality you get from a free range or organic chicken.

There's no way that imported strawberries that have been stored for X amount of time taste the same as a local strawberry in season that has been freshly picked

Haven't cut back. Actually maybe buying a little more as I'm trying to eat more fruit. This week we've had:

Fruit
2 packs of grapes
Sweetclems
2 x bunches of bananas
Pack of 6 apples
3 x pack of apple slices
Big Watermelon
Usually get pineapple but I forgot to order one.

Veg:
Lettuce
Cucumber
Cherrie Tomatoes
Grapevine tomatoes
Onions
Carrots
Peppers
Avocados

There's no way that imported strawberries that have been stored for X amount of time taste the same as a local strawberry in season that has been freshly picked

As I said, I don't notice the difference but then again I don't think most UK-grown supermarket strawberries are much to write home about anyway. They all taste of nothing to me 😂

If DH didn't like them I wouldn't buy them.

Well, I don't have access to either of those things so I wouldn't know.

its because she's spending £5 each on pre sliced mango and pineapple every other day!

Can you buy frozen or tinned to top up your intake?

Family of 5, the 3 dc are between 11-16 years old shopping averages £190 a week. This week I bought:-
2 punnets red grapes
2 punnets green grapes
6 red apples
12 green apples
14 bananas
12 kiwi
4 punnets blueberries
2 packs of 3 passion fruit
2 nets of easy peelers
1 watermelon
2 mangoes
2 punnets strawberries
2 punnets raspberries

vegetables :- 3 packs mini peppers
3 packs mini cucumbers
3 packs sugar snap peas
2 broccolis
1kg carrots
2 packs of 3 normal peppers
3 large cucumbers
2 packs of 6 vine ripe tomatoes
1 pack baby plum tomatoes
500g Brussels sprouts
500g mushrooms
2 packs tender stem broccoli
cauliflower
spring onions
1 kg brown onions
2.5kg Maris piper potato
2 packs green beans
savoy cabbage
3 bags of bistro salad
3 packs of 2 corn on the cob
3 packs of baby corn
bag sweet potatoes

2 packs of frozen peas
1 pack frozen sweetcorn

where are you buying mangoes from? I've been buying mangoes for probably 15 years and never 1 has been black inside ...

@lifebeginsaftercoffee You have no markets? Anyway strawberries are definitely cheaper in supermarkets in the summer as well.

and you don't get 1KG of flesh from a 1KG pineapple.... and it certainly doesn't rot in 3 days

Ehhh - millions of people buy bananas every day - can't get worked up about the same people buying a raspberry out of season

I only buy veg unless the fruit is for a specific recipe. Fruit was wrecking DDs teeth and the dentist told us to cut down - it's not missed, its a very expensive luxury.

@wubwubwub very different. Banannas are picked green and shipped over to ripen in warehouses in the UK. Soft fruit is very very perishable and this time of year has to be imported from Morocco or Egypt (We may see Spanish improits from March/April) so has to come by road or air.

I also think there is a difference in eating something imported because we can't grow it at all in the UK and eating something imported because you want a UK seasonal fruit out of season.

Not anywhere convenient, no - our nearest market is a 45 minute drive away in a direction I never need to go in 🤷‍♀️

I genuinely haven't noticed a significant drop in price in the summer compared to winter either.

It just leaves us hungry if I stretch 500g of meat for more than eight serves. The veg fills us up, but only for a couple of hours.

Where from? Strawberries have tasted either of nothing or bitter whenever I've tried them out of season. I buy frozen if I want out of season fruit.

Everything is in season somewhere in the world