Do you have 30 fruit & veg in your fridge/ freezer/ cupboard right now?

[GRex]

I read "do you eat 30 different fruit / veg in a week", and I started out curious if we even HAD 30 to pick from. We don't all eat all items, and certainly not all within a week; of the 36+ core items it's unlikely any individual one of us would go over 20 on a given week. How many do you have and actually use?

This is what we have; occasional other bits like figs I don't buy enough to count, I think this is the main set:
13? Fridge: olives, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, iceberg lettuce, artichokes, romaine lettuce, rocket, baby courgette, mixed peppers, fresh chillies, ginger, garlic, baby leek, red onion, spring onion, coleslaw, kimchi, some M&S mixed salad packs (assume we won't count garlic and random pack mixes)
3 Fruit: apples, clementines, raisins
3 Freezer fruit (only for pancakes): blueberries, raspberries, strawberries
3 Freezer veg: cauliflower rice, sprouts, mushrooms garlic, ginger, chillies, mixed greens thing, packs of chopped leek/ courgette / onion / aubergine (from when we were going away)
5 Fruit juices: apple, raspberry, pineapple, rhubarb, grapefruit.
10? Cupboard (used a lot but removing lots of duplicates): peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, almonds, cashews, seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, chia, sesame, black sesame, mixed), beans (baked, black, pinto, butter, kidney), water chestnut, bamboo, grated coconut, tinned tomato, tomato paste, mixed grains, artichokes
0 Cupboard (so rarely used): pistachio butter, pearl barley, hearts of palm, poppy seeds, lentils of various types (not counted as not eaten often), walnuts.

Fresh Watermelon
Raspberries
Apples
Pomegranate
Dates
Bananas
rhubarb
Salad leaves
Lettuce
Red chicory
cucumber
radishes
celery
carrots
tomatoes
onions
broccoli
courgettes
fresh parsley
fresh mint
garlic
fresh chillies
dried: apricots
red lentils
walnuts
almonds
cashews
pine nuts
pumpkin seeds
sesame seeds
brown, white, wild and red rice
quinoa

frozen: spinach
peas
edamame
broad beans

tinned tomatoes
kidney beans
haricot beans
chickpeas
green lentils

Fruit apples oranges pears nectarines bananas

Fridge veg peppers cucumber courgettes celery mangetout spring onions garlic lemon juice

Cupboard 20-30 herbs and spices (I don't think they should count) red lentils puy lentils chick peas Canellini beans haricot beans baked beans basmati rice sweetcorn nuts and seeds raisins dried apricots onions tinned tomatoes salad leaves (usually carrots used the last ones tonight)

Freezer peas ginger frozen berries frozen cabbage lemon slices

Quite a few jars missing pickles, etc, friends round at the weekend polished them off.

I don’t think Brazil nits are vegetarian!

Nits (no matter what country they are from) are definitely vegetarian. It's only when they hatch they start eating blood...

🤣 We need the laugh reaction back!

I would if I counted each sultana individually !
LoL 😂

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Not a chance. DH hates almost all veg and won’t cook it, so unless I’m well enough to cook myself (happens less and less frequently) then it just rots. Sometimes, I’ll get something like Pak Choi, which I love and also get to cook it then he’ll enjoy it but he won’t cook it himself. This evening was an enormous surprise as he actually did broccoli and carrot! It was delightful.

left to ourselves, dad and I would be eating every vegetable under the sun!

Good grief how big is your fridge?! I can see why the tv ads state we "all" throw away too much food,there can be no way you eat all this surely?

Good grief,how big is your fridge?! I can see why tv ads say we are throwing away too much food in the UK,or are you just listing all fruit and veg you have ever heard of.There is no way you get through that much a week!

I was going to say the same! 😂 And I might have a tin of carrots in the cupboard.

I was going to say the same! 😂 And I might have a tin of carrots in the cupboard.

You really shouldn't hit plants,they've done nothing to you!

Yes we have more than 30 and eat them all every week I would guess. We eat lots of nuts, seeds, pulses, herbs and spices which helps.

Some things we have, like potatoes and olives, don't count as 1 of your 5 a day though.

Fridge veg: assorted peppers, courgette, potatoes (new and baking), carrots, leeks, tenderstem broccoli, green beans, lettuce, red onions, shallots, mushrooms, tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot, sweetcorn, mange tout, avocado, olives, rocket
Fridge Fruit: raspberries, blueberries, melon, pineapple, grapes, pears
Prepared salads: couscous, orzo, chives, sultanas, apricots, parsley, mint, pomegranate
Freezer: blackberries, cherries, peas, soffritto mix
Fruit bowl: bananas, lemons, apples, limes
Cupboard: sweetcorn, chickpeas, butter beans, rice, various herbs, pepper, tinned plums and peaches, cashews, sesame seeds, almonds, macadamias, pistachios and hazelnuts
Can I count pickled gherkins? And red cabbage? Technically also tea and coffee (we use coffee beans and DH likes weirdly fussy tea). Also mandarin oranges but they're in a jelly as Mr Toast isn't well and it's his soothing treat 😁

There's more out of the fridge than in it. We don't put much veg in the food waste usually; just tops, tails etc. If you have a look in the thread, you'll find lots of people are similar.

Fridge is 342 litres, or thereabouts.There is some fridge veg and fruit that's eaten almost daily like lettuce, cherry toms, peppers, onion, spring onion, olives, garlic etc. Other bits come and go; with lunch and dinner for 2/3 of us there's 30-37 meals every week plus occasional bits with breakfast (e.g. mushroom, tomato and spinach on cheesy toast).

Wow, that sounds like a lot! We have very little cupboard space and a small fridge freezer so minimal stock.

fresh fruit: apples, pears, satsumas, bananas, blueberries and grapes.
salad: lettuce, mixed leaves, cucumber, tomatoes, celery and pickled onions.
veg: courgettes, peppers,
frozen: Peas, sweetcorn, peppers, onion. Various potato items.
tinned: tomatoes and sweetcorn.

various dried fruit snacks.

? Fridge: olives, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, iceberg lettuce, artichokes, romaine lettuce, rocket, baby courgette, mixed peppers, fresh chillies, ginger, garlic, baby leek, red onion, spring onion, coleslaw, kimchi, some M&S mixed salad packs (assume we won't count garlic and random pack mixes)

Potato lives in the cupboard. And onions, garlic, avocado and tomatoes are on the side/shelf.
No artichokes or currently chilli.
Broccoli, fine. Beans, leeks, beetroot, olives, ginger, cabbage, carrots,
7 kinds of leaves in the garden though plus 2 sorts of chard.

3 Fruit: apples, clementines, raisins

Plus Bananas, oranges, pears.

3 Freezer fruit (only for pancakes): blueberries, raspberries, strawberries

Plus gooseberries, black currants

3 Freezer veg: cauliflower rice, sprouts, mushrooms garlic, ginger, chillies, mixed greens thing, packs of chopped leek/ courgette / onion / aubergine (from when we were going away)

You can freeze aubergine?
Ours is generally limited to peas, corn, peppers and stir-fry mix

5 Fruit juices: apple, raspberry, pineapple, rhubarb, grapefruit.

Only oj and apple in this house.

10? Cupboard (used a lot but removing lots of duplicates): peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, almonds, cashews, seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, chia, sesame, black sesame, mixed), beans (baked, black, pinto, butter, kidney), water chestnut, bamboo, grated coconut, tinned tomato, tomato paste, mixed grains, artichokes

No almond butter, but mixed nuts, pine nuts, seeds, cashews, peanuts, beans: black, canellini, butter, black eyed,, chickpeas, jackfruit, coconut milk, tomatoes, baked beans,
Fried chickpeas, red lentils, green lentils,

But we're veggie and the veg box arrived today.

I initially thought I'd never make 30, but actually...

Freezer: carrots, peas, raspberries, strawberries, potatoes, bag of mixed Mediterranean veg (can't be bothered counting those individually).
Fridge: Peanut butter, tomatoes, Cucumber, lettuce, broccoli, orange juice, grape juice
Cupboards: Raisins, tinned tomatoes, sweetcorn, tinned pineapple, tinned prunes, various herbs
Fruit bowl: Bananas, pears