Choices of Fruit vs Saving Money

I heard dark chocolates also contains these antioxidents. What I do is to buy blueberries in season, about four lbs and then put them in ziplock bags and freeze them, then if I want to have some with my yogurt, I will bring up a handful.

That is terrific planning. I may have to look into bulk fruit this year. It is the best way to go.

I also planted a couple of blueberry bushes. I do not know how they reproduce and if they do, I will not have to buy as many next year. This year, I will still have to go to Safeway and get some.

It seems that bananas and oranges are cheaper everywhere else. We do not use processed food, but we find that bread is expensive. Our store says it is because people are demanding wheat, but I cannot have much of that, I would like to make my own, but I am too busy on myLot that I do not have time for that. We grow our own strawberries and raspberries, and there are pick your own around here. My husband hates raspberries, so I eat them myself.

Bananas have so many health benefits that we also keep them, looking for the best place to buy them. You are really smart with your blueberries. I like to do that with cranberries. You are right about the foodbanks. I am in a small town, you are not to use it that many times a year, and they want non perishable food. Now, and interesting thing is that the county jail grows a garden, and any surplus they have they take to the senior center and give it away.

We get oranges and bananas because they are cheaper and apples as well. We do not buy strawberries or raspberries as I have a fruit garden. I also have an apple tree, but it is mainly juice apples and not that good for making pies. I also buy blueberries when they are in season, and freeze them for the rest of the year. We have food banks here and people donate food for the poor, but I find that they do not exactly give healthy food, mostly macaroni and cheese and canned goods.

I wish my husband would let me grow a vegetable garden. I can grow a fruit garden because it does not need much work, and I do not like the idea of food banks as they do not pack healthy foods unless it is in cans. When we were in Saskatoon, we were visiting a Senior's Home and they had a small garden, but it was not enough and the residents did not eat that healthy. That is one reason I do not want to wind in one.

banana pudding is good havent ate banana bread in along time. Here in the desert we have to depend on food being trucked in but most usually we have all kinds of fruit and veggies att eh store!

I like bananas as long as it is not made into banana bread. Had so much of it as a kind that I cannot stand it. I also am not fond of plums for that reason. We have a short growing season here that the only fruit that is local for a longer period are apples so we really depend on bananas and oranges.

I have had banana cream pie, and banana bread, but I love bananas fresh. Bananas are quite cheap here, but they might not be for long with the gas prices going up. Maybe we will have to eat strawberries, but ours are so small you need a magnifying glass to find them.

I also heard that dark chocolate and coffe contains antioxidants.

Really? You shouldn't have told me that. Now I'm up for the dark chocs in the cupboard They may contain but they also have other non-beneficial effects unless one knows how to take them in moderation. I eat chocolates occassionally but only to satisfy my cravings and usually just one small bar is good enough. I still would opt for anti-oxidants that I get from fruits and vegetables.

I seldom buy dark chocolate. I am the type who will finish a bar or half a bar off a day. I know because sometimes my husband buys a bar, cuts it in half, he finishes his off in one setting and me, I decide to put most of it in the freezer after cutting it up into squares. But guess what happens. Later on the day, I go and get them out, and start eating them one piece at a time. I was wondering instead of putting it into the freezing compartment of my fridge, whether I should go downstairs and put them in the freezer. The basement is a mess (waiting until my husband gets over his mini stroke and the inspectors come, and our sons take the pool table) and it would be harder for me to get at them.

I take it this way. We all need the vitamins in fruits and vegetables, and if they are too expensive, you might think it is better to buy junk food and bad carbs like no name packages of macaroni and cheese and it might come to the point that all your walking instead of taking the taxi (or the bus which is what we did when we had to go quite a distance when I was a girl)does not make any difference. You might go to the store and find that lets say apples are $5.00 an apple or oranges $10 an orange or bread is $20.00 a loaf. And yet you will probably find that the junk food and processed food much cheaper. So will you forgo those expensive fruits and vegetables and buy a can of processed food instead? The way that the fields are being converted to ethanol, I would not be surprised.

Your welcome. I just did not like the idea of taking the corn and the wheat fields out of production, and convert them to make fuel when they could easily have used wood fuel.

Yes, now I agree with you its just I missed the word ethanol. Thank you for the good info about chemical foods lol.

I have lived in my house for 10 years and this morning I found wild brambles (blackberries) growing in my yard. Wow! I am so please as a child we always searched for them in the nearby woods.

I love oranges. But they are cheap up here, but I do wish we could get something else besides oranges and bananas. It is kind of boring having the same thing every day. I buy buy blue berries in season, and I have some raspberries left down in the freezer and when they are used up, I hope it is when there are some raspberries and strawberries ready to pick from my garden.

When I was a little girl in Vancouver, we used to go down the lane and gather blackberries, but now that we are in Winnipeg, they do not grow here, but we plan to go to Vancouver this summer, but since I am no longer a kid, and since we have to return to Winnipeg later on, we cannot do this blackberry gathering any more.

We get bananas and oranges all year round, but the rest of the fruit we buy in season. Some of the stuff is rather expensive, but we would rather stay healthy even if it costs a bit more. When our boys were young, we could not buy that much fresh fruit, but we did go berry picking a lot.

It all depends on when you buy them. My husband goes shopping with me, and he was brought up poor. I was, but not to his extent, and he will never buy frozen fruit. So I have a fruit garden, and grow some strawberries and raspberries, plus an apple tree, and I buy fresh blueberries in August and September when they're in season and freeze them.

We don't get papayas up here much and they are expensive. But when our boys were small, we lived in Saskatoon and we would go berry picking, but since moving to Winnipeg, we have had to go to the stores or grow our own and my husband does not want a garden (he grew up in the Prairises and they had large gardens where you worked at all day,) so I just have a strawberry and raspberry patch that I pick fruit and we have an apple tree as well.

The farmer markets here in Manitoba are in the country and it is a long drive from Winnipeg. So we have to either grow our own or buy it when it is in season, and freeze it. So much of the stuff we have to import. Our Canadian climate does not permit us to grow oranges, bananas, papayas, coconuts, kiwi fruit, and the other stuff and even our berries can only ripe in July to Septemeber.

I used to live in British Columbia and we could get fresh fruit a lot cheaper then here. Now I have to rely on oranges and bananas, or wait until the fruit comes in season. And I really love cherry pie.

We have a short growing season, and most of the time we have to import our fruits. So during the non growing season, we eat mostly bananas and oranges that are imported, and then apples. In the summer we will have strawberries, berries, cantelopes,etc. because that when things are cheaper.

We mostly buy bananas and oranges, but this time apples were on sale and I love Macs the best so we picked up a bag of them. I also planted a couple of blueberry bushes on my used to compost pile and they have already got more leaves. I have some strawberry plants, and an apple tree, but our apple tree this year is only producing leaves. I do hope that the strawberries really produce this year.

I remember when everyone had false teeth and even I have most of my teeth filled or capped. I would hate because we cannot afford fruits and vegetables that it will go back to that. We buy fruits on sale and that helps, but sometimes we have to do without.

I have my strawberry and raspberry garden, but I do not have blueberries yet so I have to buy them. When we lived in Saskatoon, we would pick Saskatoon berries, and most of the other stuff we go to the store. We live in a spread out city, so it takes a while to get to the country to pick any berries. I do find I can get blackberries and some raspberries from the back lanes ans the bushes overgrow, but not that often.

Papayas are expensive here so we have to stick to the bananas and the oranges. And even in reason, blueberries are expensive. And I love them so much so I will buy four pounds and freeze then for the year. I wish I could grow them, but it seems to take some trouble to do so. We have acid soil, but that is because we have a compost pile.

I find eating one banana a day and one orange a day is easy to do. Now my husband eats two bananas a day so that means the bananas run out in three days. I do think it is unfair of him. I think I should hide the bananas on the top shelf and just say, "This is your banana for the day." I would rather have fruit then vegetables, because the latter is not as sweet.

We have to go to Superstore or Safeway to buy our fruit or we have to grow them ourselves, and we only have a raspberry and strawberry garden. I buy blueberries in season, about four pounds and freeze them for eating the rest of the year. I wish there was a farmer;s market near where I live, but we have to go outside the city and Winnipeg is a long stretched out city.

I love berries, mainly strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. i do love bananas but hate to take the peel off the oranges especially when they are thick. I like it when it is manderin season as they are easy to peel. And i do not like messy fruit such as watermelons and pears, but I do love cantelope and melons as long as they are cut up. Do not like getting my hands messy.