what vegetables do you buy?

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i have gone off broccoli - i quite like it in a stir fry but a whole head is too much for 2 people
and do tend to buy currently asparagus/tenderstem broccoli

i did go through a phrase of kale but this is in bags

so all the above is currently expensive

i do buy leeks and carrots but for the colour what else is a good buy?

I buy red cabbage as it is great in stir fry or salad. Frozen broad beans are lovely. Taste very much like fresh ones. I usually get some sugar snap peas for stir fry, Thai style curry and salads. Veg that have more than one role tend to get used up.

Broccoli keeps for ages, we get through one or a large pack of tenderstem once a week between 3 of us. I don’t often cook meat n two veg meals. We are more one pot meals here.

My fave veg is courgette. Green beans are good but don’t keep as well. Sugar snaps and mange touts very nice

I buy fresh carrots peppers green beans and broccoli florets. Frozen we have peas and sweetcorn.

It’s just me and my DS, so some things I like but he doesn’t, I’ve given up on as they go to waste, but we always buy (weekly)

carrots
cucumber
tomatoes
onions (red, white, spring)
broccoli- head or tenderstem
peppers
mangetout
greenbeans
asparagus
sweet potatoes
frozen peas, sweetcorn and squash
some kind of leaves depending on time of year- spinach, rocket, cavolo Nero etc

in winter I’ll add in Brussels sprouts and parsnips

i also have an allotment but this year might as well not have bothered. Voles got everything tender and slugs took the rest 🤷‍♀️

Kale is easy to grow and you get more kale than you would want, particularly if you get a cutting of a perennial kale from someone. Cabbage is cheap and lasts well in the fridge, or make sauerkraut with it.

still not been persuaded to buy broccoli, apart from tenderstem , but i love kale, problem is it goes off with just 2 of us, since it is sold in bags

The bags are only 200g though. There are two of us and we'd easily eat that across two meals.

Every week:-
Tomatoes (I know not strictly a veg!), peppers, carrots, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, spinach, kale, broccoli, sweet potatoes, potatoes.

Every few weeks:-
Frozen peas, tinned sweetcorn, beetroot, cauliflower

I don't worry about wastage as we have 8 guinea pigs!

If you work with the bare minimum of 5 a day, so say three of veg. For two people that's 42 serves a week, times 80g is 3.36kg. I don't see how the sizes that most vegetables are sold in would be a problem?

Yeah, I often wonder what people class as a portion of veg or fruit when they say that that they can't get through a head of broccoli. Most is around 250 - 300g including stem which usually gets chucked so probably about 200g is only 2 and a half portions.

The greenish veg I have this week is

Spring cabbage
Lettuce
Spring onions
Kale
Courgette
Cucumber
Green beans
Broccoli
Rainbow chard (some is green)

frozen

Green beans
Brocoli
Cauliflower
Carrots (pre cut, yes that lazy)
Sweetcorn (lose)
Corn on cob
Peas
Pepper
Onion

Fresh

Letus
Cucumber
Carrots (to eat raw)
Tomatoes

I could eat a whole roasted broccoli to myself, easily, I love it.

There are 4 in our house.

We buy most weeks -
2 cucumbers
2 lots of tomatoes
Salad bag
A lettuce (to bulk salad bag out)
Avocado
Beetroot
Carrots
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Potatoes
Onions
Courgettes (currently get loads from mums garden)
Mushrooms
Pepper (red)
Any veg on offer/seasonal like asparagus,.leeks, samphire, beans,.stir fry etc

Also always have tinned Tom's and pasata, alongside tinned beans/pulses

And in the freezer always peas, sweetcorn, fries (emergency tea), and sometimes edamame.

We don't have tonnes of.fruit, but always bananas, apples, berries and melon in summer, frozen and dried fruit.

Green beans
Cabbage
Peas

Tonight I trimmed some dandelion leaves from my garden and had them with my evening meal.

You can also eat young nettle leaves.

We buy, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, red and white onions, Albert bartlet potatoes and baby potatoes weekly. Plus peppers, but they get classed as salad for some people.

depending on how much is left in the fridge we buy courgettes, a type of cabbage (savoy, red or sweetheart), baby corn, sugar snap, Mangetout, tenderstem every other week ish, sometimes more frequently sometimes less. Celery too, as that’s needed for sofrito.

Winter time we have leeks and swede too.

In the freezer we always have peas, sweetcorn and green beans. Separate bags, because I don’t like a mix.

Oh, and there’s Endamame beans in the freezer too, and usually spinach in the fridge.

Salad wise we always have romaine lettuce in - I find this lasts the best, plus a bag of mixed leaves, normal and mini cucumber, mini tomatoes, radish, spring onion, mini peppers for salad, big ones for cooking.

Most of our shopping bill is fruit and veg, along with meat.