How many *different* fruits and vegetables does your kid eat per week?
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Anonymous
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25 seems like a ton. What I remember from the last week or so (and it’s a good week!):
Beans Spinach Broccoli Banana Apple Orange Bell pepper Pineapple Honeydew Watermelon Garlic Green onion Sweet potato Yellow potato Carrot Celery |
Anonymous
I think its expensive if you buy a whole thing of organic strawberries or a big sack of organic oranges. But I buy one or two apples at a time, one orange, one or two kiwi, and bananas at TJ’s are 0.19. Same with vegetables - I often buy a couple zucchini, a small bag of carrots, etc and throw it in soup. Soups and stir fries definitely upped my count this week. |
Anonymous
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We are using imperfect produce and have enjoyed it. The prices seem reasonable, or at least comparable, to the grocery and there is a good variety.
I don't find fruits or veg all that expensive. I would buy more frozen veg except that DS prefers things roasted to steamed and I am not sure how good frozen veg tastes when roasted. |
Anonymous
| In a typical week, maybe a dozen different kinds of fruits and vegetables. |
Anonymous
just fyi, this is a great recipe: https://www.thekitchn.com/oven-roasted-frozen-broccoli-259041 |
Anonymous
My vegetable list is close to this, give or take 5 different kinds. But we only have about 3-4 types of fruits since we buy a lot of each kind. If you buy a bag with mixed varieties like power greens or normandy blend or stirfry blend then you get more varieties in your grocery, I have a mix of fresh and frozen veggies to prevent waste. |
Anonymous
OP, I was just thinking how I got through so many variety of vegetables without even realizing, and thought one of the braised beef dishes that I cooked actually had a lot of vegetables that mostly broke down into the sauce, so it is doable. It's also easy to prepare because you can use a crockpot/instapot. I cooked a tomato/bell pepper braised beef which had- Tomatoes, 4 types of bell peppers,onion, garlic, shallots,potatoes, carrots, olives. You can serve it with a side of grain, pasta or spaghetti vegetables. |
Anonymous
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The only vegetables my kids will both reliably eat are carrots, cucumbers, corn, and snap peas. So we pretty much have those things every week. One kid likes broccoli so I always buy that too and then I buy salad greens and other vegetables just for my husband and myself and hope the kids will eat it too but they usually don’t. Occasionally they’ll eat cauliflower or parsnips.
But we’re good on fruit. My 4 year old could live on fruit alone. In any given week he eats bananas, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines, grapes, melons, pineapple, apples, clementines, and berries. Of course not all of that is always available at our store but if it is and I buy it, he will eat it. He easily eats 12-15 different types of fruits per week. Now we just need to work on the vegetables. |
Anonymous
In a week? You kid seriously ate this much variety in 1 week? Im not buying it. |
Anonymous
A lot of the vegetables are staples in asian dishes. I am betting they make a lot of Chinese dishes but it could be from another culture. Her list is making me hungry tbh. My dh has been trying to find a restaurant in our new city that has mustard greens. |
Anonymous
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25? That’s crazy. My kids eat a varied diet but get nowhere near that. A typical week for them:
Kiwi, mango, pineapple, grapes, berries, oranges, lettuce, apples or bananas, tomato, peppers or cucumbers, carrots, onion, garlic, zucchini or broccoli, eggplant or cauliflower avocado. |
Anonymous
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This week at home:
Nopal Chayote Chard Kale Broccoli Cauliflower Lettuce Tomato Carrot Cucumber Bok choy Green beans Napa cabbage Spinach Zucchini Onions Garlic Avocado Mango Apple Orange Grapefruit Plum Kiwi Pineapple Watermelon Nectarine Papaya Blackberry Strawberry Mandarin We live in Mexico so produce is cheap but this is roughly how we ate when we lived in the US. |
Anonymous
Jealous of your nopales! |
Anonymous
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Every week I buy:
Strawberries Blueberries Blackberries Raspberries Melon Clementines Apples Bananas Grapes Pineapple Sometimes I get pears. Those, apples, and clementines will stop soon though. Green beans Carrots Sweet potatoes Broccoli Asparagus Green squash So 16 or so? The veggies are limited mainly because I don’t particularly like vegetables myself. |
Anonymous
I don't know how old your kids are but one apple would last one meal for my kids and my kindergartener would want more than half an apple. Same for one orange. How could that be enough fruit for one family? My kids would eat two apples for breakfast and two kiwis for lunch and would split the orange if I gave them it as well and they're 5 and 3. |