What do you do for fruit?

We get ours in a weekly veg & fruit box delivered from a local organic place, plus I've bought at Aldi, Lidl, and the Co-Op

We get some at the green grocer & some at Morrisons - I often see mangoes and pineapple there for £1 each, but I'm a tropical fruit fanatic.  I live in the wrong country. 

(Also I don't think it's a here vs there thing (UK & US).  If you haven't lived in the US for some time, you might be shocked at just how much groceries cost there now.  I know I was the last time I went!)

Thanks everyone for your advice.

Mrs. Robinson, I never meant to suggest it was a UK vs. US thing.

I haven't been in the US in a long time, so I have no idea how much food costs there.

Mrs. Robinson, I never meant to suggest it was a UK vs. US thing.

No, I didn't mean that you did - only that I think the food costs quite a bit there too these days. 

We've been getting strawberries and grapes at tesco. 2 containers for 3 quid.  Its still more expensive than the US but I think fairly good for England...

I bought a few pears and now the weather has gone cold again, I think I'll have porridge for breakfast tomorrow and grate them into the porridge for sweetener.

I'll second (or third?) finding a locally-owned greengrocer or looking in the local market.  They usually stock whatever is in season.  I used to buy a lot of fresh stuff that was forced or imported from wherever but I eventually realized that most of the time it doesn't actually taste very good, so we don't eat it anyway.

I also tend to buy things like pineapple or mandarin oranges canned in juice.  I'm usually disappointed with the flavor of fresh pineapples, even in season, because they have to be picked so early in order to get shipped here before they spoil.  At least with a canned one I'll know that it will taste the way it should!

I often find that Aldi vegetables aren't very good, at least for things like pre-cut salads and other more "fragile" stuff.  However they often have good deals on whatever the 69p produce of the week is. 

I've been shopping at Newgate Market now because the quality is fairly OK but it's actually no cheaper than the supermarkets.

speaking of strawberries, i can't stop thinking about this long enough to enjoy them anymore:

Wash strawberries

I second Legs Akimbo's point about frozen berries. At Tesco, one can purchase a very large size box of frozen berries for 2 pounds. The quality is very good. I make pulses/shakes out of them, or just defrost and eat with some light whipped cream. Yum.

Otherwise, the arab market near to us also has great fresh fruit deals. They sell 6 large lemons for 1 pound, or 6 limes for 1 pound. We make a lot of lemonade.

We usually don't buy certain items until they are on sale, otherwise. Although now we have so many plums... I'm not sure that sales are always the right thing to pursue!

Don't frozen berries usually have added sugar? The ones I saw in the States always did.

The ones I buy for making smoothies are just plain frozen raspberries with nothing else added. I've also tried frozen mango chunks, but those were nasty. I'd stick with berries! 

niku2, I'm with you...after just seeing that informative clip (and thank you for posting it), I don't think I'll look at strawberries the same way.   

The frozen berries we buy in the US don't have added sugar.  They're just frozen fruit.  They specifically say 'unsweetened' or 'no sugar added'.

If you have a big enough garden you can try growing some fruit. In our first house we had 3 apple trees (cookers) and managed to grow strawberries. I desperately wanted some blueberry bushes but never had any luck.