Expect to pay firmer prices for some quality fresh produce favourites over the Easter week with heavy rains and unseasonal heat in the harvest regions taking their toll in a high demand week.
While there won't be a shortage, you can expect to pay firm prices for top grade Asian vegetables, asparagus, beetroot, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, fennel, leeks, parsnips, silverbeet and squash.
Broccoli has reduced in price but is still firm. Handpicked beans are expensive but prices have dropped on machine picked beans, making them cheap, as are pumpkins value-for-money.
There are plenty of carrots, celery, eggplant, snow peas, sweet corn and zucchini stocks on hand at your local fruit shop so expect to pay a reasonable price for quality produce.
Salads items are still the best buys of the week, with the exception of avocado which remains firm to expensive as the pebbly hass variety finishes for the season and the green-skinned shepard arrives on the shelves, having been sourced from harvest areas hit hard by rain.
Otherwise, you can pick up top quality, value-for-money tomatoes (with the roma variety the pick of the crop), lettuce, mixed salad leaf, cucumber, eshallots and a full variety of herbs.
Serving up fruit platters for Easter adds a splash of colour, taste and some healthy nutrients to the diet but be prepared to pay firm prices for all berries, bananas, figs, pears and pineapples.
New season gala and red delicious apples are sensational eating and reasonably priced but you will pay more for other varieties until their season ramps up with bigger harvests.
It's citrus time of year, with limes, lemons and valencia oranges of great quality and reasonable value although mandarins are imported from the US, and are expensive and of poor quality.
Look for well-priced grapes, with the muscat and crimson varieties flavoursome, kiwifruit, rockmelon, watermelon that is slowly increasing in price, and pawpaw, with the red variety preferred over the poor quality yellow that is weather affected.
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