How much fruit

ageandjo

Do you buy/consume in a week? I am interested in this as I watched you are what you eat this week and was wondering how much or how expensive it really is to eat loads pof fresh fruit and veg?

frugalfairy_3

I love fruit and veg and try and incorporate as much as possible into my diet as possible. I buy bananas and either apples or pears at the moment (no one I know has offered me any of their glut ) for snacks, with maybe a couple of oranges or something else as a treat, and I always attempt to serve at least two different vegetables with a meal. Sometimes I hide them actually in the meal, like grated carrot, mushrooms, celery etc because OH complains :rolleyes: but I always try and offer a side dish as well to make sure we get our 5 fruits and veggies (hopefully more).

I agree that the food on You Are What You Eat looks scrummy, but fruit and veggies are really expensive and really bump up my food bills. I try and get round this by only buying a specific number of apples and bananas to last a few days and I'm always making soup with remaining vegetables to use them up and to make a filling lunch/snack.

FF xx

xxxdarlingxxx

I love my fruit & veg

I eat 2 apples and 4 satsumas every day. Lunch is Tomato & Pepper soup or Butternut Squash and Carrot soup.

I usually have either a mix of peas, babycorn and carrots at night with my dinner or a couple of bits of broccoli.

catznine

I get an organic fruit and veg box the £11.50 from Organic Country Stores delivered but only every two weeks at the moment and I stock up in between at the local farmshop. I spend about £10 - £12 each week, this covers potatoes, carrots, onions, greens, salad stuff, apples, oranges, bananas, pears and basically whatever is going. depends on the season.

I am trying to make an effort to be aware of the food miles involved but a bit hard to avoid when buying bananas! I too need to get more fresh fruit and veg into our diets.

Biddyrolo

We get an organic fruit box each week which costs £13 and usually has apples,oranges,kiwi fruit,bananas, a few pears then something more exotic like pineapple or a melon or mango. This week it was grapes and a mango. My OH is the fruit eater I prefer veg and we have an allotment so can grow a lot of our own stuff (except carrots which don't like the soil). If I have to buy extra I prefer to get it from the greengrocer as it's cheaper than the supermarket and things like peaches are actually ripe and this time of year you can get varieties of English apples that the supermarkets don't sell.

Biddyrolo

xxxdarlingxxx, your soups sound delicious....any chance of a recipe:D ?

black-saturn

We eat about 3 pieces of fruit per day each and then have vegetables with our evening meal and sometimes some dried fruit too. It really plays havoc with me though.

Gingham_Ribbon

LUXURY FRUIT BAG (suitable 2-4 people) @ £12.70
Victoria Grapes
Bananas
Black Stanley Plums
Pineapple Gold
White Marsh Grapefruit
Royal Gala Apples
Galia Melon or Canteloupe Melon
Midnight Oranges
Conference Pears

Until I got pregnant (and can't stand the smell of food) we were using Farmaround North and this would be plenty of fruit for the week for 3 of us. This is this week's bag. Although we don't get it at the moment, I am keeping an eye on them as I intend to take it up again as soon as the sickness stops.

There was enough in it to satisfy my toddler's constant requests for fruit and make a pudding or two as well as interesting enough things to tempt me and DH.

Tallymanjohn

Do you find the veg boxes are more expensive/cheaper/same as supermarkets/farm shops? We shop weekly anyway & I go past a number of farm shops but the idea of having it delivered sounds good so is it worth it?

mhoc

I also have this problem. There are 5 of us so in theory that is 25 fruit/veg portions per day or 175 a week.

Fruit juice counts as one so I just have to amke sure I buy enough juice for everyone for a week and nag everyone into drinking a breakfast glass (and only at breakfast because its bad for your teeth!)

That only leaves 140 to think about which involves a lot of shopping, storing and counting up each day to make sure everyone has had their 5 a day.

And actually 5 is a minimum, thye would actually like us to eat more, 6 or 7 at least!

How much dried fruit counts as a portion?

Mary

Gingham_Ribbon

5 a day? A doddle. Here are some ideas.

Day 1:
Breakfast: toast, fruit juice (not fruit juice drink as if it's full of other stuff it doesn't count.)
Lunch: egg salad sandwich, apple, dried apricots
Dinner: Chops, mash, peas and sweetcorn, plum pudding Total 7 portions.

Day 2:
Breakfast: cereal with raisins and chopped banana, juice
Lunch: cold meat and tomato sandwich, carrot sticks, pear
Dinner: chicken and mushroom curry with onion and baby sweetcorn Total 9 portions

Day 3:
Breakfast: Banana milk shake, slice of toast
Lunch: pitta with hummous, olives and grated carrot (hummous counts as 1) slice of melon
Dinner: sausage casserole with leek, carrot and turnip Total 8 portions

Day 4:
Breakfast: Cereal with dried cranberries, juice
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich, banana,
Dinner: Pasta bake with onion, mushroom, courgette, pepper 7 portions

Day 5:
Breaksfast: Toast and beans, juice
Lunch: vegetable soup and bread
Dinner: fish and chips, hm mushy peas, rhubarb crumble at least 6 portions

You get the idea! Add a piece of fruit or a corn on the cob, or a bowl of salad for snacks and you can see it adding up very nicely!