The abundance of summer fresh produce is on offer at Your Local Fruit Shop with only a minor impact on prices after recent heat and rain fluctuations in the southern growing regions.
Look out for great quality Asian vegetables, beans, beetroot, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, carrot, celery, parsnips, snow peas, silverbeet, sweet corn, zucchini, mushroom, onions, potatoes and pumpkin.
Sweet potatoes have also fallen in price and are excellent roasted, mashed, steamed, barbecued or fried. Choose ones that are firm to touch with brightly coloured skins.
You will pay firm prices for brussels sprouts, eggplant, fennel, leeks and squash.
The recent wild and hot Victorian weather has taken its toll on the supply of asparagus, broccoli and capsicum, with all three expensive.
In the salad aisle, tomatoes will cost you more and are softer than usual, which shortens their storage life, but they are eating well.
Fill your salad bowl with reasonably priced lettuce, mixed leaf salad, cucumber, eshallots and herbs.
Ginger is at the top of its price bracket.
Avocados are also expensive with the dark-green, bumpy skinned hass variety grown in Australia and New Zealand at this time of year.
The fruit aisle has the colour and smells of a Christmas table with an abundance of reasonably priced mangoes, stone fruit, both expensive good quality and cheaper average quality cherries, and even firmly priced lychees on offer.
Look to scoop up some great fruit bargains this week with good quality limes, rockmelon, watermelon, passionfruit, paw paw and USA grown pomegranate available.
There are two markets for blueberries with the firmly priced punnets better quality than the cheaper ones on sale.
Most other fruit is firmly priced, including apples, bananas, strawberries, raspberries, grapes, figs, kiwifruit, honeydew, pears and pineapples.
Lemons and USA and South Australian-grown navel oranges are expensive.
USA pomegranates are reasonable priced and bursting with flavoursome sacs, with the darkest fruit offering the sweetest taste.
Brisbane Produce Market
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