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What's up with the price of fruit!? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/food

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I'm trying to add more fruit to my diet, but I'm having trouble finding good deals.

Grapes, for example, are $6 per bag of ~2.25lbs (~~453~~ 906 grams). That would be mostly acceptable, only I can't eat that many grapes before they go bad.

I then saw pears, and noticed they were ~$1.30 each. That's a crazy price to be paying when I'm going to be eating an entire pear with my meal. It becomes the most expensive part by a massive margin, and it's not even meat!

So, what really set me off was seeing apples, apples for $1. One. Dollar. Per. Apple. That's insane. It's unacceptable. It should not be the case.

So I ask, what is going on? Is this the result of ensuring people will pay the absolute maximum they're willing to, regardless of what something costs to produce? Is this the result of that occurring at every step of the way in all of our lives, including for apple farmers?

Is there something else? Is there a legitimate, not-passing-a-bunch-of-money-around-at-the-top reason for why a bleeping apple costs $1 now?

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's winter.

[–] jarfil 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's summer... on the other hemisphere.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah but how do they not fall off the earth when they're upside down?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

We wear magnets in our shoes. They keep us bound to Earth.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ingenious

[–] derbis 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

453g is about one pound. 2.25lb are about one kilogram.

Where are you shopping? What region do you live in, how urban or rural?

[–] flynnguy@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Freeze your grapes... wash them and pull them off the stem and lay them on a baking sheed in the freezer. Grapes will last longer and they taste good frozen.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

get used to it considering the trend around the world of demonising migrants and immigrants

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Everything and I mean everything is getting more expensive. It's especially egregious with basic needs like food, clothes and shelter.

That said, the cheapest way to get fruit is going to be local and in season. Look up your local farms and go to them. Even then, you gotta keep a bit of an eye out, as I've noticed some by me have been charging ridiculous prices for pick-your-own, pitching it as an experience for the kids and asking a premium for that.

When you get local fruit, the best way to keep it year round is to either freeze it or preserve it in jams, pickles or what have you.

It's gonna be hard to get fresh fruit at a decent quality and price in the cold months. Fruit doesn't grow then. Simple as. That said, I often see deals on bags of frozen fruit that makes it somewhat more affordable vs fresh during winter. These tend to be lower quality, so I end up macerating them with sugar and making baked goods with them, or mixing them with yogurt.

Oh and citrus. Citrus seem to travel well enough that you can get decent citrus year round.