harvest to home update, 21st October, 2011

The big news of the week is that we are starting to see some premium quality bananas coming in! And if that wasn’t enough in itself, early stone fruit – peaches and nectarines will be dribbling in. And talking about stone fruit, there is a flood of avocados from New Zealand continuing and there are some great prices here also.
The Good News:
Avocado (well priced)
Beans - Green and Handpicked (prices eased and good supply)
Beetroot (large better)
Broccoli (prices cheap)
Cabbage (all good)
Chilli (Red and Birdseye easing)
Red, Green and Yellow Capsicum (all cheap)
Cauliflower (good and cheap)
Celeriac (good)
Celery (good and cheap)
Corn (plenty and cheap)
Eggplant (QLD now and prices cheap)
Fennel
Oranges (CHEAP!)
Blood Oranges (plenty about)
Strawberries (great quality and cheap)
Grapefruit
Kiwi fruit (good quality and cheap)
Leek (good quality and plenty about)
Lettuce (prices down)
Mandarins (good quality and cheap)
Mango (plenty about)
Mushrooms (Button are good and Flat getting better),
Parsnip (plenty about)
Peas, Snowpeas and Sugarsnap (Australian best & cheap)
Tomato (prices easing)

The Not so Good News:
Chilli (Green scarce)
Cucumber (Telegraph & Lebanese price rising)
Ginger (still high price)
Kumera (limited supply)
Lemons (prices heading up)
Limes (high prices)
Mandarin (quality on the way out)
Melons (prices not great)
Onions (brown up in price)
Butternut Pumpkin (very pricey)

My favourite – blood oranges are coming to an end, so stock up on these. This week or next will be the end of these tasty suckers.

Until next week, happy and healthy eating!

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