Fruit bowls - why are they never ever big enough? Am I a freak?

[MamaG]

each week, I buy

1 large bag apples
1 large bag pears
2 punnets of plums
2 large bunches of bananas
1 large bunch of grapes

...and usually at least one other item

Fruit bowls is piled high with fruit, with more in teh fridge, I'd just like it all in one big bowl.

are we fruit freaks? Do YOU buy as much? Where do you keep it?

I generally have a bowl of mixed fruit in the kitchen and one on the table for after meals -

Snap Mine is precariously piled high that every time dd helps herself to fruit it all tumbles out all over the kitchen counters.

oh thats not a bad idea actually - I just have the bowl in teh kitchen, but could put another on teh dining room table

We have a bowl in the kitchen, one on the dining table, a banana tree and keep some (berries etc) in the fridge.

I have three and they are all full right now

I have found the sort that hold the most are the very large flattish shallow sort. You can build huge pyramid shapes of fruit with them.

ooh Franny three fruit bowls

Yes....it takes up an enormous bowl & then spills out all over one work top too..with the toms & the avocados
bag apples
pears
lemons
grapefruits
passion fruit
kiwi's
mangoes
bananas
watermelon
pineapple
apricots
figs
nectarines

rasps,blueberries,strawberies & blackberries in fridge.

All our fruit goes in a flat-bottomed, shallow basket that my parents were given as a kind of "open hamper" one Christmas. It fits in most of the fruit we eat in a week but we keep the apples in the fridge so that helps! The basket is great though because it allows the air to circulate underneath so we rarely get manky fruit lurking at the bottom.

always have ikky,sticky gunk at the bottom

Hello you mad Fruit fanatics! I don't know if anyone's interested, but I got a voucher in the post this morning from Ocado (promise I don't work for them!) which apparently when you order over £90 of goods online and put in this voucher number (think it's standard and not just unique to me?!?) then you will get load of fruit and veg added to your order for FREE!

Some or all of the following: Blueberries, Large Supersweet pineapple, clementines, sweet potato, chanay carrots, grapes selection and tenderstem broccoli...

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If it is unique to me and someone gets in before I do then I hope you enjoy your freebies!

i have a big goldfish bowl. fruit in it, banas hang round the top. still not big enough. some stuff has to sit on the side, like melons.

we don buy loads but i keep the citrus seperate - and i dont have a fruit bowl i use pyrex dishes

Ah, now I see why I never have enough room in my fridge. I keep most of our fruit in the fridge with just apples/pears/bananas on the worktop.

Not pears - oranges!

I've just bought tons too, three fruit bowls worth. We are fruit freaks too.

I use a platter/serving type plate as a bowl was never big and things get lost at the bottom. With sth flat you can see what is there.

All my fruit and veggies, and there is a vast amount of both, are kept in the salad drawers of the fridge.

I just love cold fruit!

I keep most in fridge with just apples/oranges/grapefruit etc in the fruit bowl but have started using a large mixing bowl just so it all fits!