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Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box

Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box

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$70.00 ea

Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box will be ever changing due to current market availability. You'll get the best balance of value and quality in this perfectly selected offering of the market's very best.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX THIS WEEK?

2 Cucumber Telegraph Each
Carrots Medium 1kg
2 Cucumber Lebanese Each
2 Orange Blood Each
2 Mandarin Afourer Each
Tomato Snacking Pequeno 200g
Celery Whole
Fennel Each
2 Potato Red Washed Each (NSW)
2 Potato Kestrel Each (QLD)
Cauliflower Half
Sugar Snap Peas min 300g
Asparagus Bunch
2 Avocado Hass Large Each
Grapes Red Seedless min 1kg
3 Apple Kanzi Lunchbox Each
Papaya Red Each
Blueberries Premium 125g
Pineapple Sweet Topless Each

Pick of the Week - Sweet Topless Pineapples

“My pick of the week is the Topless Gold pineapples from central Queensland. A few things to know about pineapples. Although they may become juicier and change colour, they don't actually ripen at all after they have been harvested. They are very high in vitamin C. 
 
Twenty years or so ago, the pineapple industry grew pineapples mostly for the cannery and juice. These are what we now call factory pineapples and were not at all sweet and the processors added sugar for taste. The new (not so new now) pineapples, which have nearly entirely replaced the old varieties in the fresh market, are a hybrid of fabulous, sweet varieties imported around 20 years ago. I think they are fantastic to eat. 
 
Removing the tops was done for two reasons. Firstly, the new pineapple plants each season are grown from the old plants and splitting the crowns is the easiest and most reliable way of doing this. Secondly, it made it easy for the new style pineapples to be easily distinguished from the older, not so good eating factory pines. It's great to see reasonably priced pines again, it’s been a couple of years since we had good quantities due to fires in 2024. Enjoy this wonderful fruit again.  

- David Harris

Dave's Market Update

In Veg

Asparagus, fresh wonderful new season Australian product is coming on in leaps and bounds and we hope to sell for an incredible ticket this weekend. With the warmer days I have been cooking mine on the barby at night, a little lemon, salt and olive oil is all it takes, absolutely delicious! The other bargain this weekend will be honey snap peas at a very attractive price which will really work as snow peas have gone up in price.

A couple of other bargains this week include cauliflowers and washed potatoes, where we have the kestrel variety in our Queensland stores and a red washed in the NSW stores. Fennel is really at its best, it’s another veg that comes into its own in spring. Celery also is fantastic quality and cheap. All shops have a well-priced snacking tomato available to round out the salad offer. Enjoy your spring vegetables

In Fruit

"The best news in the fruit prices is the flush of sweet topless pineapples available after a very tough couple of years. They are absolutely delicious sweet fruit at very affordable prices. In berries it’s blueberries that are still the best option, our strawberries are now coming from Western Australia and the freight alone makes them relatively dearer than the QLD fruit we have been enjoying. Papaya has eased a little and right now is the best time to enjoy, they don’t eat as well when the hot weather hits up in QLD. 

We do have plenty of apples, I am enjoying the Kanzi variety, for value here look to the lunchbox grade. Avocados are starting to climb in price, however the quality is excellent. As I indicated last week grapes are becoming a viable option. The imports from the USA are still the sweetest eating fruit."

- David Harris

*The Box pictured is for illustration purposes and may contain different/varying products due to seasonal variations & current market availability.

Contents updated 9am on 23/09/2026