Fruit & Veges

I'm trying to extend our fruit and veges at home, I think we have enough (probably just) but not that much variety. What fruit and veges are your usual pantry fillers?

We are rather boring here... spuds, kumara, pumpkin, carrots, brocolli, cauli, lettuce, frozen peas, frozen mixed veg, sometimes parsnip. And fruit, I usually only buy fresh bananas and apples, but have lots of tinned fruit in the cupboard. Hmm, not that great, but at least we have veges most nights

Our staples are potatoes, onions, broccoli, carrots, capsicum, mushrooms, lettuce, tomatoes, apples, bananas and peas in the freezer.

I have to force feed DF too with vege, he could quite happily eat meat and no vege, i am the opposite.

I do like to buy what is in season and on special.

I LOVE goulbourn valley fruit pots for when they fruit in the bowl in uninspiring. I find it so much yummier than alot of the other tinned stuff. We have all the usuals, but always have fresh grapes and pineapple or strawberries and blueberries or kiwiberries, we usue these as "lol lols" for Jake, he loves them.

you are lucky with the fresh produce in gisborne. DF was living there till I clubbed him over thehead and brought him down to CHCH and it is much harder to get the variety and freshness here.

Maya won't eat canned fruit which is a bugger when I haven't done the fruit and veg shopping. Her and Willie eat around $60 worth of fruit between them a week - bananas, apples and oranges are staples, plus seasonal stuff like manadarins, pears, grapes, kiwi, berries (she loooves blueberries). I'm a 'banana a day' girl, thats the extent of my fruit.

Vege-wise - I eat a lot of veg so every week we get mixed salad leaves, colored capsicums, tomato, cucumber, carrot, spud, kumara, courgettes, onions, mushrooms. Maya loves broccoli, beans and cauli, plus I get whatever other veg are on special/in season like eggplant, asparagus, squash, pumpkin. Frozen I get sweetcorn and stir fry veg.

Oh and I've recently started buying "snack cuc's" - gherkin size cucumbers, they are great for Maya's lunchbox and she loves cucumber. I also chuck in raisins or dried apricots, and sometimes chopped up capsicum or I cook an extra piece of sweetcorn at dinner and chuck it in her lunchbox.