Price of supermarket fruit and veg

[rustylady]

I've just topped and tailed 1.181 kilos of gooseberries and just thought I would check online how much they would cost to buy.

Googled and found Sainsburys are selling them at £2 for 200g. Flipping heck, that makes my gooseberries worth £11.81

[PAULW]

I'm imperial yesterday I picked 10 lb 10 oz from one bush couldn't be bothered to top and tail them so cooked the lot and pushed them through a sieve I now have 7 lbs of puree

[binley100]

We checked the price of cherries after our foraging ........one place worked out at £18 per kg

[alldigging]

I picked 2.2kg of them!

[rustylady]

Tesco Organic Raspberries £16.67 per kg

[binley100]

Organic Raspberries Waitrose 125g
Price per 100g: £3.00 ........and people pay it .......

[leonmc0708]

prices are unreal - fruits always the most expensive as lots of supermarkets have offers on the veg.

flavour coupled with satisfaction of them being your own and added to the on-tap freshness of cut and come/pick as needed meakes the lot priceless for me though.

[rustylady]

£10's worth of redcurrants just picked and that's just from one bush. Got another one to go yet.

[julesapple]

Don't get me started on this, not after a week buying at Dutch markets. The taste of those peaches will live on in my memory forever. I ruined a good tshirt with dripping juice, but it was sooooooo worth it. And they were cheap - as were the huge apricots and cherries.

[Kirk]

Have you read that the head of Tesco is saying that fruit and veg will rise in cost at a rapid rate. Seems we have had cheap produce for some time and the reality is everything will rise.
Interested in the Dutch Markets.

[julesapple]

At Liege (Belgium) one kilo of cherries - huge black ones - was €7. The peaches were two kilos for €5 and apricots were two kilos for €4. The prices were almost the same in Maastricht. We bought more cherries from the farm along the road from where we stayed; they were smaller red cherries and a kilo was €5. Cherries are big business in Limburg, and I'd love to go back in Autumn for the apple & pear harvest.....

Just before we came home, my APs bought more cherries from a Turkish guy. They wanted a kilo, the guy weighed them out and then asked if they were taking them to England. Yes, they said. Oh, well...you'll need need more than a kilo! He said his BinL lives in England and he has firsthand experience of the carp fruit we have here, so he gave them an extra kilo free!!

[Nicos]

I've been picking black cherries today.
7kg so far- that's over £50 in value at Te$c@

[binley100]

*wonders if nicos would notice if somebody went and foraged a few cherries

[Florence Fennel]

I gave away loads of PSB (and there's still some in the freezer). Tesco were selling it at £8.99 kg!