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'm also in the midst of buying pots and compost to start growing veg on my balcony - I used to grow a lot but home life and work caused that to drop back.

But in my 3' x 5' space, I had baby spinach, broad beans, spring onions and leeks, courgettes, radishes, salad leaves, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mange tout, peas and french beans, as well as cherry tomatoes in a hanging basket and chilli's and peppers in pots. And dwarfs french beans and spring onions and salad in window box pots. Think of what grows high that can be trained up a fence and what can fit low down under that, mixing things up and growing things spaced closer together than the books/seed packets say. Use plenty of fertiliser and keep well watered. You can grow a surprising amount in very small spaces.

I really like Stawberries and Nectarines but they taste awful now.
Wasted buying strawberries. Eat a couple and can't finish them.
Even green apples are hard to eat.

Cucumbers and jacket potatoes are the only things I buy all year round.

Strawberries are lovely from the markets from May onwards.

The only fruit I eat is raspberries, I buy a couple of punnets a week at a fiver. DS has apples and bananas every day, that costs around £3 a week. Veg wise I usually buy broccoli, frozen peas, carrots, cucumbers and baby corn.

I dont find fruit and veg too expensive, depending on what you get.

For me and DS in a week:

Bunch bananas (loose) - 90p
Granny smith apples - £1.35
Easy peeler oranges - £1
Punnet of grapes - £2
Raspberries - £1.35
Bell peppers - £1.35
Onions (red) - £1.35
Cherry tomatoes - 80p
Cucumber - 80p
Broccoli - 80p
Carrots (bag) - 35p

This is versus crisps, biscuits etc costing about £2 a packet.

This is versus crisps, biscuits etc costing about £2 a packet.

Biscuits are about 60-85p for most types

Crisps and biscuits don't cost £2 a pack @kcchiefette - you can get a double pack of Bourbon creams for 58p from Tesco, and a multi-pack of 10 bags of own-brand crisps for £1.35.

Yes, sorry, meant with branded products such as Walkers etc.

There are multipacks of crisps etc for around 90p etc but I find these is around the same costing as say, a bag of oranges.

I'd compare store brand biscuits and crisps with regular fruit and veg, and branded biscuits and crisps with premium fruit and veg, otherwise it's hardly fair.

It's pretty similar, a six pack of crisps or a six pack of small budget apples are both about a pound.

Today I’ve bought
2 punnets of strawberrues
2 of grapes
1 of blueberries
1 of raspberries
6 apples
6 bananas
6 oranges
3 kiwis

2 courgettes
lettuce
cherry tomatoes
broccoli
cabbage
carrots
2 cucumbers

I expect I’ll pick some more up mid week.

Yeah, I think apples/bananas/oranges and crisps/biscuits/chocolate are pretty similar in price/value, it's when you go for more exotic or out of season fruit that the gap widens considerably.

I mean, Tesco sells raspberries for £1.32 but they're awful - every time I've bought them, they're soft and go mouldy within 24 hours. If you want the decent ones you have to pay £3 or so which is a lot.

Lamb IS in season in october. It is available all year round, but the peak in uk is aug-oct. They are born dec-may.