Day 220- Fruit box day

7 August 2012- Fruit box day- we get a veg and fruit box delivered fortnightly, which means less decisions about to eat.

Day 205- more passionfruit

23 July 2012- I had an overabundance of passionfruit, thanks to my mom's overflowing vine- which fruited while she was away in Canada.

Day 201- Passionfruit

19 July 2012- this passionfruit spent about a month on my desk before being eaten.

Day 190- fruit

8 July 2012- Passionfruit, mandarins and apples.  We have been monitoring the passionfruit vine while my mum is out of town- wow!

Day 139- Frozen blueberries

18 May 2012- My current breakfast is oatmeal with blueberries.  It isn't blueberry season here, so rather than $10 for a 125 g punnet I buy the frozen ones. 

Day 48 - fruit

17 February 2012 - Over to dinner at my Mum's, a picture of the fruit bowl- bananas and fig.

Day 43 baking

12 February 2012 - I bought a couple of punnets of blueberries earlier in the week and decided to use them up by making fresh blueberry muffins. Such a difference from frozen! There must have been a blueberry glut this year, they have been on special all month. This makes a nice change from the customary heart attack prices ($9.99 for 250 grams!)

Day 31- Fruitbox day!

31 January 2012- We get a fortnightly fruitbox, which forms the basis for our vegetable and fruit consumption. We have some control over the contents- there is a list of about 30 items, and we can choose 15. This box was eagerly awaited as we had run out of the essentials, such as apples and onions!.

Day 28- Just peachy

28 January 2012- We bought two trays of peaches from a fruit shop, with the intention of making some jam. It turned out to be a bit more than we thought- two batches of jam, a peach cake and grilled peaches, and we still had to throw half a tray away because the peaches went bad after a few days! The peach jam recipe is the Maggie Beer one from the cook and the chef.

Day 348 - Banana

14 December 2011- Just testing out the close up capabilities

Day 288 - Fruit

15 October 2011- We made kiwi and strawberry jam. Here is the fruit, pre-jam process.

Day 184- Apple

3 July 2011- We made some spiced apple chutney- here is the main ingredient.

Day 38- The last banana

 
7 February 2011 - There has been a cyclone up north, and the banana plantations are pretty badly hit. The last time this happened bananas ended up being something like $15 a kilo($30 a pound?). Anyway I barely ate bananas for about a year. The price has already started to rise in the shops, so when I spotted this banana in the work fruit basket I went for it. I thought it would be the last banana for a while, but my home fruitbox has them at the moment as well.