Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box
Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box
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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?
Cucumber Baby Sweet 250g
Lettuce Midi Cos Each
Carrot Small Prepack 500g
Salad Baby Spinach Leaves 120g
Buk Choy Shanghai Baby Bunch of 2-3
2 Kiwifruit Green Each
Fresh Herbs Coriander Bunch
2 Banana Each
2 Avocado Hass Small Each
3 Apple Imperfect Granny Smith Each
3 Apple Imperfect Pink Lady Each
3 Mandarin Murcott Imperfect Each
2 Mandarin Afourer Each
Potato Brushed Bag 2kg
Sweet Potato Imperfect Kumera Each
Tomato Cherry 200g
Celery Whole
Fennel Each
3 Pear Packham Imperfect Each
2 Zucchini Black Imperfect Each
Blueberries 125g
Broccoli Head Each
Cauliflower Whole
Strawberries 250g
Pick of the Week - QLD Strawberries
"The Queensland strawberry season is in full swing. The fruit is excellent, full of flavour and very attractively priced. Most of this fruit is grown in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, where the nights are cold and the days warm. These strawberries are excellent quality and keep very well.
Don’t forget to take them out of the fridge a good half an hour before you consume them. Strawberries are high in vitamin C, low in calories and a great favourite with all generations; a real treat with your breakfast cereal or to snack on at any time of the day."
- David Harris
HOW TO PICK
The perfect strawberry should be fully coloured, firm, bright, plump and shiny. Size plays no part in determining the perfect strawberry. In fact, small strawberries are equally as sweet and juicy as large ones. Make sure the cap (calyx) is attached, green and fresh-looking.
HOW TO STORE
The moisture content of strawberries is high, so always remove fruit from punnets and place (unwashed) in a large container lined with absorbent paper. Strawberries are best stored at 4°C, either uncovered or loosely covered. Serve at room temperature. Only remove their caps after washing and just prior to use.
Dave's Market Update
In Veg
“Some fantastic winter specials this week at Harris Farm. Cauliflowers and broccoli are both really cheap and really good quality. Imperfect black zucchini and celery have both come back in price as has fennel.
Tomatoes are great quality and very well priced though they have strengthened in price. Imperfect Kumera continues to be great value and this weekend we will have brushed potatoes at a very attractive price; they are keeping well. Put a few away and take advantage of this price.”
- David Harris
In Fruit
“Still more rain than we need impacting our peak berry period. The strawberries from the Sunshine Coast are finally really coming good, however, drizzle persists that holds them back a bit. The blueberries from Coffs are really copping it, affecting both supply and quality.
Navels and mandarins continue to be both inexpensive and fantastic, sweet, good eating fruit. The imperfect Murcotts mandarins are hard to beat.
Apples and pears are both still very good although there are some early varieties of red apples that I would avoid.
Avocados are superb and excellent value. Our farmers have extended grape plantings further into North Queensland and this is providing us with great eating white grapes, all Aussie, where we would normally have been relying on imports at this time of the year.”
- David Harris
*The Box pictured is for illustration purposes and may contain different/varying products due to seasonal variations & current market availability.
