Balancing an Easter diet can often feel like a challenge, particularly with chocolate in abundance. Incorporating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables is an excellent way to maintain balance over the long weekend. Your local, independent fruit and vegetable store displaying the A better choice! logo is the place to find a wide range of quality, fresh and seasonal produce sourced through Brisbane Markets.
This week’s pick of the week is Cavendish Bananas from North Queensland. With supply currently abundant and offering excellent value, now is an ideal time to add Bananas to your shopping list. Did you know that Bananas with brown speckled spots are often sweeter and richer in nutrients? These Bananas are ideal for snacking, smoothies, or baking. If you have leftover Easter chocolate, Bananas and chocolate make a classic flavour combination. Consider adding chocolate to a traditional banana bread recipe or blending it into a Banana Smoothie.
Jujubes from Mareeba and New South Wales are only available for a short period each year, making now the perfect time to try them if you have not already. They have a crisp, Apple-like texture and a naturally sweet flavour. Jujubes are rich in vitamins and minerals and are known for supporting quality sleep, as well as digestive and skin health. Jujubes are best enjoyed fresh, so when storing them, place them in an airtight container in the refrigerator to maintain their quality.
Sheppard Avocados continue to be in great supply from North Queensland, with the quality outstanding. Sheppard Avocados are a perfect healthy addition to your Easter breakfast this Sunday, or even sliced up into a healthy salad for lunch.
With Easter celebrations under way, there is no better time to add Carrots to your shopping basket. Supply is strong from Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, ensuring good quality Carrots are readily available at your local, independent fruit and vegetable store. With solid supply, Carrots are an ideal ingredient for seasonal baking. Consider preparing Carrot Cake Cookies to enjoy while catching up with family and friends this Easter, if the Easter Bunny does not enjoy them first.
Another crisp vegetable to include this week is Sugarloaf Cabbage from the Lockyer Valley and Victoria. Low in calories and packed with nutrients, Sugarloaf Cabbage is a versatile option and a great way to balance sweeter treats over the Easter period.
Happy Easter to all. Shop at your local, independent fruit and vegetable store displaying the A better choice! logo, where you can be confident you will find a wide range of fresh, quality, and seasonal produce sourced through Queensland’s heart of fresh produce, the Brisbane Markets.
About Brisbane Markets
As Queensland’s only central fruit and vegetable market, the Brisbane Markets is the state’s most important centre for the marketing and distribution of fresh fruit and vegetables. It records an annual trade of over 700 million kilograms of produce valued at more than $2 billion.
An important economic and employment hub, more than 4,500 people work or do business at the markets each day through over 170 businesses. This includes over 45 wholesalers who receive fresh produce from over 7,000 growers and trade five days a week to more than 800 registered buyers.
About Brisbane Markets Limited
Brisbane Markets Limited (BML) is the owner of the Brisbane Markets site and is responsible for its ongoing management and development.
BML provides infrastructure and services to facilitate the marketing of fresh food, flowers and other ancillary products for fruit, vegetable and flower wholesalers, retailers, provedores, secondary wholesalers, food processors, transporters, exporters, industry organisations and market support businesses.
More information can be found on our website: www.brisbanemarkets.com.au.
About A better choice!
The A better choice! retailers are hardworking local family business owners, who are passionate about fruit and vegetables, they are our experts in their field and provide excellent customer service… with a smile.
Here’s the thing: no one can match A better choice! fruit and vegetable retailers for FRESH! Every morning, they hand pick a diverse selection of high-quality fresh fruit and vegetables from the Brisbane Markets, sourced from thousands of Australian farms.
Make your first choice A better choice! with local retailers throughout Southeast Queensland including Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and Tweed Heads. Please click on the link to find your local fruit retailer www.abetterchoice.com.au/store-locator/ . By shopping at your local fruit and veg shop, you are making A better choice!
About Brismark
Brismark is a member organisation which represents and serves the needs of the wholesaling sector of the fresh fruit and vegetable industry – in particular, the primary wholesalers that operate out of the Brisbane Markets at Rocklea. Brismark provides industry representation, and a range of financial and business services to support the wholesaling sector of the fresh fruit and vegetable industry and their associated businesses and actively contributes to strengthen the Central Market system. Brismark also oversees the A better choice! retailer program in Queensland.
