cheapest vegetables?

clutterydrawer

I spend a terrifying amount on veg and was wondering what kinds of veg you think are best value.

I tend to go with what's in season, or root veg of various kinds as I've always thoguht of it as being cheap, but wondered what your opinions were.

sorry if this thread already exists, I had a look but couldn't find one.

Rikki

I always buy carrots and frozen peas. The rest I usually buy what is on offer or reduced depending on the meal ideas I have for the week.

I use carrots for cakes, muffins and to bulk out meals by using grated carrot. I do have carrots as a main veg too.

freebiequennie

we used to always have petit pois until they jumped in price now we have a bag in freezer and use when have nothing else in.

we use frozen green beans and brocolli

fresh we always have carrots and potaotoes and onions

then we buy depending on offer fresh - brocolli, green beans, purple sprouting, cauliflower, kale,

we have an organic fruit and veg box roughly every 3 weeks as well.

Nitha

If you have an Aldi near you try their super 6. 6 fruit/veg are reduced to 49p for a month. They have Butternut squashes at the moment!

Doom_and_Gloom

I would spend a horrific amount of money on fruit and vegetables if I didn't buy most of it reduced from supermarkets and from grocers. I managed to find £37.86 worth of fruit and veg for only £9.74 (£8.77 after BF's 10% discount) in Mr S' last night saving over £28 :rotfl:. Grocers have good offers such as 2 pineapples for £1.60, 8 satsumas for £1 etc. a lot of the time and if you go before closing some will sell for just above what they paid or even what they paid for the produce. I personally think well reduced fruit and veg is the best price :beer: . I try to avoid paying full price wherever I can .

wigglebeena

Per pound, must surely be potatoes and onions. In my local market you can get 6lbs of pots for a quid, onions are nearly as cheap. Not exciting, but you won't get scurvy!

LameWolf

I keep a packet of frozen peas in the freezer, and everything else I get from Stony Stratford market on a Saturday, depending on what they've got that I think is reasonably priced.

We don't bother with leafy type veg, as neither of us cares for it so it's pointless, or beetroot as I can't abide the smell, but other than that, I see what he's got on offer and buy accordingly.

Always have pots, onions and carrots though.

chmmy

Also frozen sweetcorn and frozen leaf spinach can be good value. I find that frozen whole green beans are much cheaper than peas/petit pois at the moment.

Bitsy_Beans

I have found the cost of 1kg of frozen broccoli and cauliflower is cheaper than buying it fresh in Mr S's so I buy those (and peas) this way. I find I don't waste any this way either as I take out what I need. I am growing my own this year so will have to see how that pans out. I buy organic carrots because the taste is superior and I love to eat them raw. That's my extravagence as they are pricy by comparison.
The rest of stuff I get from a local nursery that sells local produce but even then I must spend at least £10 a visit!

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Bronnie

I buy from a mobile veg van which sets up stall locally twice a week and is amazingly cheap.

I just try to get the most out of what I do buy!
I try to choose the biggest cauli (when they're priced per cauli and not by weight!) and also the one with the most fresh green leaves, which I shred and serve like cabbage.
Also if the brocolli has thick stalks, I cut them off and serve as another veg , thinly sliced and cooked.
Swede is good and fairly cheap for bulking out meat dishes and with carrot
Tougher tops of the leeks are shredded and use in stews.
Sad lettuce leaves are shredded and added at the very end of cooking a stirfry.
Drumhead cabbage goes along way too , cooked or raw in coleslaws.