Aussie banana troubles..

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Permalink Reply by kt2 on April 18, 2011 at 11:14pm

not expected to get back to normal prices until the end of the year :( which is going to make winter a little challenging. i am having lots of custard apples as they are the only other high calorie fruit around, i am also having some frozen durian about once/week.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Jales on April 19, 2011 at 9:41am

Thats not what I wanted to hear! Thanks for the reply:0)

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Permalink Reply by JackfruitJames on April 19, 2011 at 9:36pm

I suggest hunting for and buying the really ripe bananas and freezing them. Here in Perth the markets have them sometimes. I always go on the last few hours of the weekend market.

 

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Permalink Reply by Dave Jales on April 19, 2011 at 9:43am

Hey there, I just bought a ten kilo box of grapes myself.. Very nice at the moment - but poor substitute for the banana.

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Permalink Reply by hellcat on April 19, 2011 at 7:57pm

Me too, I seem to "get on" grapes around this time of year. I love the dark purple/black ones, with the seeds - SO super sweet :) Eight cups of grapes for lunch today....

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Permalink Reply by Yvonne on April 19, 2011 at 12:14pm

I'm really struggling with out bananas at the moment too.  I'm eating a lot of watermelon instead but good watermelon can be hard to come by and end up expensive when you're eating a lot of it.  Plus bananas are so easy to throw in my bag and head out for the day - no mess, no spoons.  I will try custard apples tho, haven't given them a go yet.  I didn't realise they were high calorie, thanks for the that!

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Permalink Reply by Cand on April 19, 2011 at 8:19pm

persimmons custard apples figs dates repeat

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Permalink Reply by Jesse Radja on April 19, 2011 at 8:43pm

North of Cairns we are paying $3.00 to $4.00 per kilo ...... only real solution is to get on the land and plant more ........

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Permalink Reply by Rawgasm on April 19, 2011 at 9:38pm

that cheap! $12  here

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on May 2, 2011 at 4:44pm

This is average organic price in Adelaide. We are getting most of our cals from California: organic dates. We could grow so much fruit here in Australia but the fruit phobia is preventing even a lot of organic farmers from growing it. My housemate says that most of his customers refused to buy sweet fruits cos they feel 'guilty' eating it! lol!

 

The solution is to eat more and that will create the $ so people plant more. Demand creates supply. Not the other way around. ;)

 

 

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