What fruit and veg are on your shopping list?

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Looking to get more variety in but typically, especially when shopping online, I always seem to stick to the same things.

my usuals are
carrots
green beans
sugar snap
mangetout
asparagus
broccoli
courgette
apple
bananas
kiwis
blueberries
peppers

looking with interest as I should branch out too…

Strawberries (just coming into season)
Raspberries
Grapes
Blueberries
Mangos
Dragon Fruit
Kiwi
Apples
Watermelon
King Cherries when they finally arrive in M&S

Vine Tomatoes (Greek salad!)
Cucumber (same)
Red onion (for pickling)
Rainbow Carrots (mostly for lentil soup)
Celery (soup)
Green beans (for veg curry)
Aubergine (also veg curry)
Cauliflower (for the above & Cauli Cheese)
Jersey royals (grab now - short sesson!)
Swede
Peppers
Edamame beans (Great snack)
Beansprouts
Radish (although I'm growing lots atm)

My fruit consumption is very mainstream: bananas, oranges and apples. Occasionally pears. I try to avoid packaging so most other fruit is off limits and I just buy it occasionally as a treat.

I prefer fruit over veg so I'm surprised to realise I have a greater variety of veg, some frozen, which makes it easier:

Potato
Sweet potato
Carrot
Peas (frozen)
Beans (frozen)
Broccoli (frozen)
Cauliflower (frozen)

I make lentil and vegetable soup which has expanded from the original leek and carrot and now includes parsnip, yellow pepper, frozen spinach and ginger. Great way to consume a wide variety of veg.

I forgot tomatoes! I love tomatoes 🤣

I order online from Sainsburys but also have a fresh grocer with lots of exotic things. I try to 'eat the seasons' so currently lots of jersey royals and British asparagus. Other than the more regular things, I also like:

-edamame beans (frozen)
-samphire
-cavolo nero
-fennel
-Chinese leaf lettuce
-Choy sum
-Fresh shitake mushrooms

-mangoes (especially the little Alphonso ones from India which are in season now)
-passionfruit
-papaya. Chop into squares and a squeeze of lime juice over the top brings the sweetness out.
-yellow kiwi
-fresh figs
-various melons

www.eattheseasons.co.uk/

@RainbowZebraWarrior must add jersey royals to my list!

Bananas, apples, pears, oranges, grapes are the regulars every week. Then also melon, mango, kiwi, pineapple, pomegranate, plums, blueberries. I only buy strawberries in season.

Cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes, rocket, mange tout, sugar snap peas, baby corn, corn cobs, aubergines, courgettes, onions, butternut squash, pak choi, sweet potatoes, broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, peppers, carrots, celery, radishes, spring onions, leeks, beetroot, olives, potatoes, asparagus, mushrooms, cabbage. Not all of that every week, obvs!

Grapes
Apples

strawberries or raspberries if a good offer

peppers
onions
mushrooms
celery
cucumber
cherry tomatoes
maybe rocket or little gem

I’ll usually have peas and edamame in the freezer.

Apples
Conference pears
Bananas
Satsumas
Oranges
Lemons
The occasional lime
The even more occasional pineapple
Strawberries
Raspberries
Green grapes
Plums
Honeydew melon
Blueberries
Grapefruit
Dates

Carrots
Onions - ordinary and red
Parsnips
Swede
New potatoes
Red potatoes
Savoy cabbage
Sweetheart cabbage
White cabbage
Cauliflower
Those weird greenish pointy alien cauliflowers
Runner beans
Green beans
Mushrooms
Sugarsnap peas
Mange tout
Leeks
Baby corn
Sweetcorn when in season
Courgettes
Broccoli
Curly kale
Spring greens
Once in a blue moon - asparagus

Cherry tomatoes
Regular tomatoes
Red, green, yellow, orange peppers
Spring onions
Radishes
Celery
Baby beetroot
Cucumber
Rocket
Bagged salad
Ordinary lettuce
Iceberg lettuce
Pea shoots
Watercress
Basil
Coriander

I have an adverse guts reaction to mango so don't buy that, not fond of furry fruit so no peaches or kiwi, and I don't like aubergine, avocado or okra.

new potatoes
Swede
carrots
Onions, red onion
Sweet potato
Butternut squash
Celeriac (when I can get it)
green beans
Frozen Peas
Frozen sweetcorn
Parsnips
broccoli
Cauliflower
courgette
CherryTomatoes
Spring onions
Gem lettuce
bananas
Strawberries
Seedless grapes
Easy peelers
Lemons

Always try and buy seasonally and grow a few of my own so atm it’s radishes, rhubarb, spring onions, watercress, artichoke, mushrooms, parsnips and strawberries.

Plus have frozen peas in freezer and I’m growing onions and garlic.
Have my own apple compote in jars.
Plus usually have bananas, lemons and potatoes in the house.

And always have one of the following salad leaves for lunches such as Romane lettuce, rocquet, spinach or similar.

Fruit:
strawberries
raspberries
blueberries
skmetkmes blackberries
muscat grapes (the best)
apples
easy peelers
bananas
dragon fruit
mangoes
sometimes a pineapple or watermelon

veg:
peppers
onions
garlic
sugardrop tomatoes and beef tomatoes
lettuce
carrots
peas
sweetcorn
broccoli
avocados
cucumber
Leeks
sweet potatoes
king Edward's
Spinach
Mushrooms

Oh and lemons! 🍋

Bananas
apples
satsumas when I can get them
grapes
fresh strawberries in summer
asparagus in season
Frozen berry mix for my breakfast oats
For roasting -
aubergine
courgettes
peppers
red onions
butternut
for stir fry -
mange tout
spring onions
carrots
mushrooms
pak choi
Other veg for sides -
green beans
peas
broccoli
spinach (I put this in curries, chilli etc)
Salad leaves
cucumber
cherry tomatoes
More occasional than regular buys - pineapple, kiwi, melon, figs, mango

All the standard stuff, plus I like;

Okra - love it in a spicy tomato based sauce with some tamarind for sweet/tanginess
Plantain - shallow fried slices with sea salt and chilli flakes
Daikon/Mooli - is really nice cooked in stock/tamari
Passionfruit
Plums - Greengages are my favourite
Nectarines (I know they're technically standard, but I haven't seen as many available or with the slightest chance of ripening enough to be edible in recent years)
Gooseberries should be a standard fruit, but haven't seen any for years
Tayberries
Rhubarb - especially cooked with fresh Angelica for sweetness, have to grow that myself
Adore chargrilled Globe Artichokes and roasted Jerusalem artichokes.
I get big green pumpkins round the corner, as they're much nicer than Butternut.
Soursop is lovely.

Love but I'm not paying out for Dragonfruit
Would get mangosteen but they're rarely around
Haven't seen starfruit in years
Paypaya and guava's quite nice, but DP hates them, as he does fennel.

Would love to be able to get hold of mulberries and fresh currants

I'm not keen on Taro, cassava's too much like hard work for me and for some reason, lychees taste soapy.

I recently got into Beetroot
I was raised on the nasty pickled stuff on salads so avoided it until I was served a raw beetroot, orange, feta and dill salad in a fancy restaurant
Since then I had had in raw in salads and also roasted in a tray bake curry with chickpeas

Apples
Bananas
Berries (whatever looks good. My toddler lives on berries)
Watermelon
Lemons
Mango
Avocado

When in season: I love cherries, plums and peaches.

carrots
celery
shallots
potatoes
broccoli
frozen peas & edamame
spinach leaves for sandwiches
tomatoes
courgette
kale (obsessed with kale soup at the moment)
cucumbers
red cabbage (I add it to the salads, shredded)
greens for salad (whatever looks good)

Ohh I love threads like this. I split my fruit/veg between the farm shop and supermarket

English Strawberries (farm shop had some in today - already eaten two punnets…)
Pre-cut Mango
Pre-cut Pineapple
RTE Nectarines
RTE Peaches
Granny Smith
Bananas
Blood Oranges (when in season)
Satsumas (when in season)
Frozen mixed berries (for smoothies and cold soaked oat bowls)
Passionfruit
Watermelon
Dates (do we count them as a fruit?)

Cabbage
Spring Onions
Beansprouts
Sugar snap peas
Tomatoes (the heirloom & heritage ones atm are amazing)
Cucumbers
Fresh Beetroot
Broccoli
Red Onion
Yellow Onion
Peppers
Sweet peppers
Jersey Royals (in Waitrose today - made my day!!)
King Edward (I use these in tray bakes)
Baking potatoes
Sweet potatoes.
Radish

I always try and buy seasonal, except for fruit - I don’t care about exotic or exciting, but I love flavour. So seasonal is best. I’m so excited for summer - I can’t wait to do my weekly shops fully from my farm shop.

We like all vegetables so I always just look at the labels on where they are from. If they have a union jack on, I buy it. If I really want something that's not British, I'll usually go to Spanish. Never Africa or South America.

Currently we are eating carrots, all sorts of cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli, some asparagus recently, still onions and parsnips too.

Fruit wise I am not so good at sticking to UK, I love a grape! Clementines we eat all winter and apples. Rhubarb is good at the moment and I had my first British strawberries this week.

Buying British generally means it tastes better, it's cheaper, has fewer air miles, supports British farmers, gives variety throughout the year, there are so many good reasons.

We supplement fruit with a ton of fruit from the garden, mostly frozen.

I'm on my own.. so frozen veg in my freezer.. l buy fresh Leeks and freeze them.. if l know I'm going to use it.. l do love fresh veg especially sweetheart cabbage and sprouts.
Always have salad in and fresh carrots.. lettuce/ tomatoes/ baby cucumbes/ radish and onions.
But l eat loads of fruit. Ocado have just delivered.. Strawberries/ Raspberries/ Blueberries / a pineapple/ a melon/ clementine and apples.

Mine looks terrible in comparison to Pps!

Frozen: green beans, carrots, brocolli, peas, spinach

Tin; sweetcorn, water chestnuts, carrots

Fresh; cucumber, radishes, sugarsnaps, carrots, courgettes, sweet potato, cherry Tom's, grapes, apples, satsumas, bananas, pears, sometimes melon too.

I have ibs and avoid nightshades, so no peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, aubergines. And I can't stomach lettuces either :( most raw stuff is a no no.

Edit: forgot avocado! And frozen stir fry mix, beansprouts.

Fruit
Every week: Apples, bananas, pears, oranges, grapes, melon, frozen blueberries, clementines, lemons, limes

Fairly often: fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, lychees, mango, pineapple, watermelon, peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, kiwi, apricots, rhubarb, blackberries.

Veg
Every week: onions, spring onions, shallots, broccoli, green beans, flat beans, peas, carrots, spinach, red, orange and yellow peppers, cavolo, red or white cabbage or rainbow chard, aubergines, courgettes, garlic, olives, fresh herbs, rocket, salad leaves, little gem or romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, tinned lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, white beans, ginger, chillies, avocado.

Fairly often: cauliflower, asparagus, leeks, beansprouts, butternut squash, pumpkin, edamame beans, frozen corn or corn on the cob, beetroot, romanesco, celeriac, swede, Jerusalem artichokes, kohl rabi, padron peppers, endive, chestnuts.

Also: pine nuts, almonds, walnuts, pecans, sesame and poppy seeds and whole spices.

Potatoes, salad and for mash or roast x
Parsnips x
Long stem broccoli x
Carrots x
Asparagus
onions x
vine tomatoes x
cos/Romaine lettuce x
cucumber x
butternut squash
aubergine
courgettes
beansprouts
mushrooms x
bananas x
apples x
oranges
grapes
strawberries
plums
golden kiwi
melon

x what we buy every week, the rest is for recipes or when in season with strawberries and asparagus

I'm doing a large shop today, I'm going to buy:

Frozen:
Peas
Sweet corn
Spinach
Blueberries
Strawberries
Mixed berries
Mango
Mixed exotic fruits

Fresh fruits:
Unripe bananas (we all don't like ripe bananas!)
Strawberries
Watermelon
Melon
Kiwis
Green grapes
Pineapple
Oranges

Fresh vegetables:
Potatoes
Onions
Garlic
Turkish bell peppers
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Green beans
Aubergines
Courgettes
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Carrots
Lettuce
Mint
Dill
Basil
Spring onions
Chives

Other:
A big jar of olives in neutral brine (I make my own oil marinades)
A jar of Russian pickled tomatoes
Root vegetables for pickling
Persian onions and cucumbers for pickling