List Of Ontario Fall Fruits And Vegetables

Fall is the perfect time to enjoy abundant fresh fall fruits and vegetables. Find out how to incorporate these seasonal ingredients into your cooking.

Signs of the season for Fall fruits, root vegetables, and mind-blowing smells of home cooking surround us for September and October.

Fall is my favorite time of year, not because it’s sweater weather but because of Fall fruits and vegetables.

Meal planning through the Fall and into the Winter season is easy, especially since we find Fall fruits and vegetables reasonably priced.

Fall Fruits and Vegetables At The Grocery Store

With a simple glance around the produce department at the grocery store, I knew Fall was here, at least for Fall fruits and vegetables.

As I wandered around, I noticed all of the Fall favorites.

Spaghetti squash is one fall vegetable I hunt for as it’s one of our favorite comfort foods.

We bake it in the oven, smothered in butter, stuff the cavity with a meat sauce, and then top it with gooey Italian mozzarella cheese.

While making some price comparisons, it was nice to see that the price of lettuce, garlic, zucchini, raspberries, cucumber, and even celery was reasonably priced.

We bought celery for the first time this year, and only because it looked stringy and horrible throughout the spring and summer months.

Fresh Rhubarb 

I didn’t mind paying a couple of dollars for something that looks hearty like it should be.

Another thing I noticed was that the rhubarb was relatively pristine rather than wilted.

We have one crop of organic rhubarb left for the season, and it’s looking fantastic and far better than the first crop we harvested in the summer.

Typically, we have 3-4 rhubarb crops, but I haven’t been able to take care of the garden as I had hoped this summer.

Our crab apples are in full swing, so I will climb the ladder and give them away for free to anyone who can use them.

Food waste is a big deal in our house, so we will do so if we can offer it for free instead of wasting it. 

• Easy Rhubarb Custard Bars
• Rhubarb Muffins
• Strawberry Rhubarb Cheesecake Bars
• Keto Strawberry-Rhubarb Custard Bars
• Rhubarb Salad with Toasted Cashews
• Strawberry-Rhubarb Chia Jam

Fall Fruits and Vegetables In Season

For those looking to add pizzaz to your meal planning, look at any Fall fruits and vegetables available at your local grocery store.

If you are lucky enough to have planted a garden, you are harvesting and know the beauty and taste excellent organic produce and fruits can offer.

Canadians tend to turn on the oven during the Fall and winter months and dust off the crock-pot and Instant Pot.

These small kitchen appliances are perfect for hearty meals, including Fall fruits and vegetables.

I would have never thought to make apple crisp in a crock pot, but I plan on trying that recipe.

Some people use the crock-pot all year long, but it is sporadic for us.

We use it the most once the Fall weather arrives.

Growing Fall Fruits and Vegetables

Although my father-in-law is no longer with us, I can easily remember the abundance of his garden, which is now a bundle of weeds.

It’s heartbreaking to see, and my wife struggles with going home because it’s the first time she’s ever seen a garden with her parents.

However, the good news is that we recently harvested garlic, figs, and many grapes.

Fall fruits, such as apples and pears, are ready for picking, although we pass most of them to our neighbors who help my mother-in-law out.

If you own a large property, plant fruit trees, and before you know it, you will be picking fresh from the tree.

Fruit trees are simple to maintain, and the bounty you harvest far outweighs what you will pay at the grocery store.

Related: How to Start a Fall Garden

Growing Organic Garlic

We will be planting garlic in the fall, around mid-September, in our back garden from the garlic we picked at the in-law’s house.

We don’t have a big backyard, but we plan to keep the garlic growing in my father-in-law’s name.

One day, when we buy a large property, we will continue gardening just as he did.

His Fall harvest was his best harvest of the year.

Related: Backyard to Your Kitchen- Fall Garden Tips

Italian Zucchini Fritters

Looking at the photo below, you can see his garden revolved around a fall vegetable harvest.

In the photo, we are missing the giant zucchini, and of course, he consistently grew his pumpkins and squash.

You’d also find an abundance of potatoes, leeks, spinach, rapini, fennel, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and loads of herbs.

Italian Rapini

Related: How to grow pot potatoes

You will find that Fall herbs hold up pretty well to harsh seasonal weather, especially chives, mint, parsley, and fennel.

I find basil tends to taper off around the start of Fall, and if we don’t snip it and turn it into pesto basil cubes, we lose what we have.

Popular Fall Fruits and Vegetables To Stock

This list of Fall fruits and vegetables is in demand at local farms and grocery stores because they are great for hearty home-cooked recipes.

Find a full list of Fall Fruits and Vegetables at Foodland Ontario.

• Apples
• Artichokes
• Beans
• Beets
• Blueberries
• Broccoli
• Brussel Sprouts
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Celery Root
• Chard
• Corn
• Cucumber
• Endive
• Eggplants
• Escarole
• Fennel
• Figs
• Garlic
• Grapes
• Kale
• Lettuce
• Melons
• Nectarines
• Onions
• Parsnips
• Peaches
• Pears
• Peppers (Bell)
• Plums
• Potatoes
• Pumpkins
• Radicchio
• Rapini
• Raspberries
• Rutabaga
• Rhubarb
• Shallots
• Spinach
• Spring Onions
• Squash
• Sweet Potato
• Turnip
• Wild Mushrooms
• Yams
• Zucchini

Fall Fruits and Vegetable Recipes

Creamy Turkey and Pumpkin Lasagna

Roasted Butternut Squash and Pumpkin Soup

Stuffed Pepper Soup

Keto Bacon Cauliflower Rice Stuffed Peppers

Fire Roasted Red Pepper, Tomato and Fennel Soup

Creamy Radish Potato Salad

Pumpkin Brownies

Cooking doesn’t mean you must spend hours preparing a delicious meal in the kitchen. 

Properly planning and using hearty fall fruits and vegetables can create hearty meals and sweet treats without much effort.

Fall is the time of year that I love the most.

Oh, did I mention that already? Ha!

Discussion: What are some of your favorite Fall fruits and vegetables where you live that are budget-friendly?

Related: Top 25 Best Pinterest Pumpkin Recipes This Fall

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Grocery Shop Results

Yearly grocery budget for two + 1 Toddler 2018: $3600 or $300/month (The above total does not include the stockpile budget of $300/year or $25/month.

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• Total Grocery Budget for this Month: $300
• Total Grocery Budget with any carry-overs $300-$42.74=$257.26
• Total Gift Cards used to date: $0
• Total Rewards Points redeemed this week: $0
• Total Rewards Points used to date: $0
• PC Optimum Points to Spend: 3500,000
• Scanning Code of Practice (SCOP) to date $0

Coupon Apps (add any other apps you use to save money)

• Zweet -$0
• Checkout51- $1.50

Our Grocery Shop This Week

Food Basics

• 3x Goldfish crackers $1.88 each 5.64
• 2 x Bear Paws $1.88 each 3.76
• 2 x PAM cooking spray $2.25 each (reduced rack) 4.50
• Marquis de Grained Mustard $1.38 (reduced rack)
• 2 x Italian Gluten-Free sausages $6.99 each (these are awesome) 13.98
• 3lbs Paula Red Apples $2.88
• Portobello Mushroom pack $4.99-50% $2.50
• Grape Tomatoes $0.88
• Cello Radishes $2.49
• Bananas $1.15
• 2 x zucchini $1.40
• Green onions $0.98
• Celery $2.25
• Red Field Peppers $0.98
• Romaine Lettuce $1.48
• Red Tomato Cluster $2.77
• Radicchio $2.24
• Strawberries 1lb $2.88
• Avocados 6 $2.88
• Schneiders kielbasa Ring $1.99
• 3 x Laughing Cow cheese $1.88 each 5.64
• 2 x Yoplait Tubes $1.99 each 3.98
• Butter $3.97
• 18 eggs $3.99
• Sour Cream $1.99
• Selection Old Cheddar $4.99
• Coconut Yogurt $2.69
• Sundried Tomato Tortilla large $1.88
• 2x Bavarian Bread $1.88 each 3.76
• Artisan White Bread $2.88
• 2x Apple Juice $1.00 each 2.00

Total Out-of-Pocket $96.78

Note: All totals below have already been tax factored into them.

Grocery Expenses Breakdown

• Total to spend this month: $300.00-$42.74=$257.26 (includes over-spend from August)
• Stockpile budget 2018 : $25.00/month
• Stockpile budget used this month: $0
• Christmas Reserve Fund : $35/month $280 Saved
• Total coupons used this week: $0
• Total coupons used to date: $1
• Total in-store discounts this week: $2.50
• Total in-store discounts to date: $177.44
• Total spent this week: $96.78
• Total spent so far this month: $96.78
• Total over/Under spend this shop: $0
• Total left to spend for the month: $160.48
• Total Spent To Date 2018: (does not include stockpile budget) Jan $323.04+Feb $169.42+March $228.70 + April $337.84+ May $275.79 + June $271.88 +July $257.76 +August $342.74 + September $+ October $+ November $ + December $

Weekly Overview

School started for our little guy, which means we did a small stock-up on vegetables and fruits although we are still skeptical if he will even eat anything at school.

The first half-day, he had a few FISH crackers, 1 slice of bacon, 2 cookies, 1 cucumber slice, and his milk and water with a 1/4 cup of not-from-concentrate apple juice inside.

Today marks his first full day of school, so we will see what happens when he comes home with his lunch.

MR.CBB

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