price of fruit!!

t14cy_t

oh my, just popped out to do a weekly morrisons reduced shop!!! did really well £58 of shopping and paid £3.31!! however, on inspection of apples they were originally £3.98 for 8 bramleys and £2.98 for 8 golden delicious!! wowsers, I paid 5p a bag!! since when did apples get sooooo expensive??

VfM4meplse

I agree - that's why a fruit and veg stall often works out best value.

Great bargains though! Perhaps one to merge into the YS thread?

London50

It makes me rather grumpy when we are advised to eat healthy food and have our 5 a day yet all the foods that should keep us away from the Dr are the ones that always cost the most and for many are way beyond their budget.

Doom_and_Gloom

Morrison's do wonky fruit and vegetables.
You can get 500g grapes £1.25.
227g strawberries £1.
5 apples for 80p (16p each).
At the moment they are doing 4 pomegranates £1.
The even do a 1kg frozen berry mix £3.
How is any of that expensive?

I bought 8 persimmon today. They were 29p each so that isn't expensive.

Some fruit and veg are more expensive but in general they are cheap, especially when you buy seasonal produce.

Bananas are around 78p/kg, that isn't expensive at around 10p a banana.
Oranges can be bought in nets to be 18p each. Expensive? I think not.

It's not hard to eat healthily on a budget at all. It's not anything to get grumpy about as it is possible.

Linda32

I'm wondering about that price tbh £2.98 for 8 golden delicious. I've just looked on Asda website and they are 6 for £1

Thanks for posting though, I would have thought that Morrisons were same as Asda on price.

London50

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Morrison's do wonky fruit and vegetables.
You can get 500g grapes £1.25.
227g strawberries £1.
5 apples for 80p (16p each).
At the moment they are doing 4 pomegranates £1.
The even do a 1kg frozen berry mix £3.
How is any of that expensive?

I bought 8 persimmon today. They were 29p each so that isn't expensive.

Some fruit and veg are more expensive but in general they are cheap, especially when you buy seasonal produce.

Bananas are around 78p/kg, that isn't expensive at around 10p a banana.
Oranges can be bought in nets to be 18p each. Expensive? I think not.

It's not hard to eat healthily on a budget at all. It's not anything to get grumpy about as it is possible.

While I agree with what you say,in the case of some fruit a lot of the low fat/sugar and salt content meals are priced far higher than say chips/some ready meals and junk food.We are bombarded these days in the news with many of the younger generation being over weight and risk health issues in later life yet my generation did not have these reduced this and that but ate healthy and spent our time outdoors.
Many of the younger people now spend much oof their time stuck in front of PC screens/TV's ect and rarely seem to set foot outside. schools cut down on PE or games lessons and that just adds IMO to the problems they will face in later life and with more and more parents both needing to work to make ends meet shopping is not that easy to fit in when trying to find the best prices on quality/healthy foods.
I am lucky as all of my children and grandchildren are adults but for young families today IMO the problem will only get worse if prices of good healthy food is not controlled so all can benefit

trailingspouse

Aldi yesterday


- net of satsumas 97p
- punnet of grapes £1.59
- 5 bananas 88p
- 6 braeburn apples 97p
- punnet of plums 79p
- 3 persimmons 97p


Nope, not seeing your problem with expensive fruit.
Good healthy food isn't expensive!!

Doom_and_Gloom

People should cook the food themselves. Relying on companies to do the work will make it more expensive.
Fruit and veg is cheap to buy.
Anyway foods such that you say are 'cheap' aren't as they lack most needed nutrients making your body crave more food and so you eat more as it is after those nutrients. These so called healthy ready meals etc are a waste. Home cooked food is the answer. It's pure laziness. Have time for x, y and z but not for cooking? They priorities the wrong things.
This time of year is great for stews, currys, chillies etc that you can batch cook and store in fridge or freezer and can be very cheap. Stir frys are quick and easy and with lots of cheap veg (carrots, onions, mushrooms, cabbage etc) are nutritious too.
My OH and I eat different meals most the time. I'm disabled and the OH looks after me. When I can I use my multi cooker to do my own food but my OH cooks a lot for me. He'll watch something on Netflix or youtube using his tablet while preparing and cooking food.
Online shopping for families is an option. I could easily do a online shop for a week in just 15 minutes and I could watch the TV or be in the bath etc while doing so. A family would easily spend the minimum amount and they could get a delivery pass.
Make gadgets work for you. A food processor so you don't have to spend ages cutting up veg if you dont have time (you can do loads in batches and freeze to use later). A blender for soup. As I said I have a multi cooker. The one I has makes my porridge for breakfast. It can do rice, quinoa, buckwheat etc. I've made curries in it. It has a slow cooker setting too. You can get some with a pressure cooker setting.
My OH has made me and himself stir frys from prep to done quicker than we could have ordered a takeout and for it to arrive. Or even about the same time some chips etc will cook in the oven.
It's not lack of time or budget. It's priorities.
Food is cheap now compared to many years ago. The UK spend on average around 10% of their income on food I believe which in the grand scheme of things isn't that bad.

I'm not saying it would be bad for fruits and vegetables to be subsidised more but let's face it too many people are just too lazy to bother or say they don't like them even if they never gave it a chance!

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D&G I agree if you have time to sit on your phone then you have time to peel and chop veg it's not rocket science I have made my food from
scratch for as long as I can remember, even when I was working full time I would batch cook and freeze quite a bit .I spend about a third of my food monthly budget on fresh fruit and veg

I have even more time to cook as I now sadly am widowed and live alone, but to me a dinner just isn't right without at least two or three veggies with it I eat meat as well but enjoy veggie curries,chilli or lasagnes as well as meat based ones.

Unfortunately many people today either can't cook or CBA to cook.I was a full time working Mum with two DDs and my late OH was working away on contract in the Sudan when my DDs were young teenagers but I still managed to cook and bake for them.

My freezer is always full of batch cooked stuff (although I am running it down to defrost at the moment ) Lots of young folk somehow think instant meals are the way to save time ,but what do they do with the time they have saved .

With the proliferation of cooking programmes on TV and the world of YouTube its not hard to find out how to cook stuff, perhaps its just idleness as you say .

I know some folk struggle to cook or dice stuff up if they have problems with health issues, but in the main if you are fit and healthy it's just the CBA that don't cook.

Both of my DDs grew up knowing how to cook and although both full time working women they still cook from scratch, and my youngest DD has had five children as well. She has been at work since her youngest was 3.

I do help her out as I have been there before and after school for the children for the past 14 years, so often I will do the veg prep for her in the afternoon but mostly she or her OH will cook dinner every night .They rarely buy take-aways as its just too blooming expensive with 3 of her four lads still living at home (one is away at Uni) But all the children have grown up with home cooked meals .

Fruit is not that expensive to buy,especially in season, and with the onset of the big cheaper supermarkets you can buy a great assortment today than when I was growing up during and post-war, where a banana was a rare treat .

JackieO xx

jackieblack

t14cy_t wrote: »

oh my, just popped out to do a weekly morrisons reduced shop!!! did really well £58 of shopping and paid £3.31!! however, on inspection of apples they were originally £3.98 for 8 bramleys and £2.98 for 8 golden delicious!! wowsers, I paid 5p a bag!! since when did apples get sooooo expensive??

The only reason you were able to buy them reduced to 5p was because nobody bought them at the higher prices :cool:

Fruit and veg doesn't have to be expensive, all the supermarkets have offers on different fruits and vegetables every week.

Siebrie

I used to set a limit on buying ftuit and veg: it could at most cost €2/kg. Sadly, that is not enough anymore, as even jonagold apples are now 2'50/kg. I still try to stick to this limit, but often find I have to stretch it to €3/kg.

The low limit more or less ensures seasonal eating, and here in Belgium they don't do yellow stickers, sadly.

I am currently in the Netherlands for my uncles funeral, and took the opportunity to stock up; food is so much cheaper here, especially in the North where I am from.