Cara Cara navel oranges
Bountiful supplies of fresh produce have seen prices remain low on most vegetable and salad items this week so there are plenty of budgetary reasons to stock up on healthy foods.
Watch for cheap prices on beetroot, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and all hard lines, including potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato and onions.
You will find broccoli and cabbage nudging up from cheap to reasonable prices. Watch out for plenty of value-for-money beans, capsicum, carrot, celery, eggplant, leeks, parsnips, snow peas, silverbeet, sweet corn, zucchini and mushrooms.
Imported asparagus is available but firmly price. Asian vegetables and squash are of great quality but are also firmly priced.
It may be winter but there are plenty of well-priced salad items to add colour to a side dish with cheap tomatoes and value for money lettuce, mixed salad leaf, shallots and herbs to choose from. Lebanese cucumbers have fallen back in price to become reasonably priced.
Avocados are the most expensive part of your salad with firm pricing.
Mild and sweet flavoured royal gala apples join a great variety of apples on the shelves, with the best quality firmly priced. Place them in your refrigerator for the best eating.
In the citrus category, lemons are firmly priced but you will find reasonable prices for great tasting, seasonal limes, mandarins and navel oranges. You might like to try the red fleshed navel called a cara cara, a medium sized fruit that has a sweet, complex taste that is low in acid.
Strawberries are reducing in price. Blueberries and raspberries are firmly priced, as are red grapes, the best quality rockmelon, black passionfruit and red papaw.
However, you will find some great priced panama passionfruit, yellow pawpaw, bananas, New Zealand kiwifruit, pineapples and watermelon.