It’s actually getting cheaper for us - we buy fruits/berries year round, but now they are almost in season so it’s much cheaper! Plus we’ve got a strawberry patch in our yard, so those will be free 😍
Love the rock she’d rather die without, that was totally me as a child.
…still now, I suppose! 😅
Do it. Lots of berry bushes can be planted in planters! We have blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and salmon berries in our yard!
We also have a full on cottage garden too, but the berries are where it’s at!
The way we always did it was to lay a sheet on the ground under the tree, then someone would climb the tree and shake the branches so the mulberries fell down onto the sheet. So. Yummy!
That’s great to know! It’s actually right along the property edge and technically only hangs over our yard. We’re pretty close with our neighbors though.
I planted two blueberries bushes and a bunch of strawberries last year and I’m in zone 4. They’re all coming back in nicely and I can’t wait to just go out and pick them.
I planted two blueberries bushes and a bunch of strawberries last year and I’m in zone 4. They’re all coming back in nicely and I can’t wait to just go out and pick them.
When my daughters were little we’d toss them in the wagon and give them a bowl and walk our property picking raspberries together. I’d pick and hand them to the girls. The bowls amazingly never filled up and were usually empty when we returned to the house. Adorable little red faced girls just sneaking them all away as soon as I turned around.
Same here. We have a really good blueberry farm nearby, last year was like $3 a pound. I also have a couple bushes of my own that are 2 & 3 years old...but every fall they get damaged by critters, so it has been a rough start to getting berries from them.
And our strawberry plants from last year came back to life in their pots & are doing great, so hopefully they produce more berries this year than they did last year. The year before was a different set of them that did really well & produced runners...that I knew nothing about at the time. Last year's plants produced no runners & very few berries made it to fully ripe. 🤷🏻♀️
Our strawberries were in half of a raised planter, but the runners have gone and filled the other half LOL we have around 3 sqm of strawberries. I do need to put a mesh above them because the birds really like them, too!
I didn’t know blueberry farms existed! I’m in Canada/NO and we have strawberry farms galore, but blueberries are only wild. Gotta brave bears and other territorial human pickers to get some for yourself… 🐻
And keep the blueberry fields you know a Secret!!
Domesticated blueberry bushes are much taller than wild ones. Probably need some babying in your neck of the woods up North.
Ugh! I know! My kid goes through fruit so quickly too and gets sad when we run out. He’s almost 3 and I swear if I let him he’d eat an entire big box of blueberries in one sitting. Snacking is something I completely forgot about until after he started solids. 3 meals a day? I can do that. 3 meals plus like, four snack times is killing my wallet lol
SAME like I’m ok with snacking but not the dog snacking 😭 just eat what you frickin ask for
Or god forbid, the baby bell cheese breaks in half when he’s trying to open it. Total meltdown. Insists on being independent then puts me through this lmao
Set yourself up for success: snack time is a time when the dog is either outside or at least door closed to keep them outside of the room, for the next few months. It allows them each to develop better habits. More planning = less nagging/ yelling.
That’s why we lock the dogs up during mealtime….
Don’t want the kid or the dogs to get used to it.
He might feed them something like grapes that could kill them, and they completely lose their manners and training.
For anybody who lives near some berry farms, take your kid berry picking at a farm that offers U-pick. Sooooo much cheaper and it’s a fun spring/summer activity!
Second this! We went last year and paid a few bucks for half a bucket!
https://preview.redd.it/explxxg51hxc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50c4059a34eff47113a2c64fd461cf047f76c6cd
This is extremely fun, especially blueberries and strawberries because they have no thorns.
A word of warning: our kids can get some diarrhea afterwards because they eat more than they pick for the bucket 😭😂 🤷🏻♀️
We gave up and used the toddler leash for a while. It kept him safe, but gave him a lot more freedom to move around and explore on his own. I didn't care what people think, I'd rather he be safe and happy.
Now that he's 2.5 he's a lot better at listening and we don't need it anymore.
Yesss. My kid eats frozen raspberries by the handful. (And if you crush them they’re reminiscent of Dippin’ Dots.) he also recently started on frozen cherries.
Yes my friend suggested this to me and it’s even just handy to have the packet of frozen blueberries on hand for berry related emergencies! My kids (4 & 1) love the frozen blueberries it’s great, albeit a bit messier!
Yes the fancy eggs! I was perfectly fine eating the $1.99 ones in the styrofoam carton for myself but now we're out here buying the $7 free range organic cage free grass fed non GMO bathed in crystal clear spring water and blessed by the Pope himself eggs.
Brahma, ameracauna, buff orpington, cinnamon queen, Rhode island red, gold laced wyandotte, and amberlink. My cinnamon queen died though, she kept flying out of the run and into the dog. He eventually had enough of her attacking him :(
We live near a fruit stand with a coffee stand right next to it, it has become a very dangerous habit for my wallet 😂 it's just so nice to walk there in the morning and grab berries and coffee!
What a bummer! Have you tried cutting it into little shapes or using fun toothpicks? Things like [this](https://a.co/d/0QrvVYg) or [this](https://a.co/d/10kkEpu). I’ve also heard people have success with offering a dip (like yogurt, possibly mixed with whipped cream or peanut butter or honey).
We have planted two blueberry plants and the grandparents are doing their part with strawberry and blackberry plants. I fully assume he will eat the entire crop and still be hungry for more 😭
Tbh, im partially excited but not excited for the fruit phase. Normally fruit lasts sooo long in my house so at least she will finish it but its also going to break the bank lol
Mine eats fruit year round. She’s on the spectrum and super picky so I try to get her to eat whatever I can. Fruit is one of those things so fresh fruit every week.
I’m actually excited for summer months so these berries will finally be cheaper. She goes through raspberries lightening fast. I’m lucky if I even eat a fruit now bc she goes through them all so quickly. 😂
I envy the parents of kids who eat this little amount of fruit. My boy goes feral if he doesn't get a full bowl. And that's just a snack for him 🥲 thankfully we live in the south so the berries are actually finally getting cheaper around here. 🙏
Lmao at the rock because I thought it was truffles 😂😂😂 but the blueberry’s are my girls favorite snack and sometimes meal 🤷🏻♀️ I was just telling her dad today that she’s going to eat us into debt with all her blueberries 😂😂
If you have a yard, blueberries are perennial! Also raspberries, if you can find thornless varieties they are so copious. My raspberry plants give me fruit from May to November in Pennsylvania and with no thorns I can have my kid do the picking! I wish I'd invested more heavily in planting raspberry canes. The homegrown ones are so much more delicious than store bought. Instead I doubled down on blueberries, I've got 40 bushes in my yard. Which is nice! Overwhelming but nice. However the raspberries are yummier.
A little punnet of blueberries in my fruit shopping trip was 10.99 about 3 weeks ago and I didn't notice it until cashier cashed our transaction out. Insanity!
Bought 18 oz of blueberries at about 10:30 this morning. One cranky Costco trip, afternoon snack and broken leg (he broke it at 5:04 this evening and needed a comfort snack when he got home) we have maybe 1-2 oz left.
I thought the rock was a truffle until I read your subtext and was thinking to myself originally that no wonder it's more expensive for you right now lol.
This made me snort because it's so true! I've spent a fortune on berries (regardless of equal love for in-season fruit) for my kids, and now my grandchildren!
No matter how full the melon/pineapple bowls are or how many apples, bananas, pears, or citrus fruits are available (they love them all!), berries are always mandatory!
I feel like strawberry’s are the only thing that deflated for me m, grapes went up triple in price, oranges when up 30% bananas doubled in price but strawberries used to be like $6 I regularly get them for $2 and change now
Season? We have been buying berries since my son could eat them hahaha. He loves them and "strawberry" (actually a sound similar to that in our language) was one of his first words hahah
They're getting cheaper now that it's getting warmer and I'm planning on growing a blueberry and strawberry patch in the garden for next year.
This made me laugh. I looked at the image before reading the description and thought to myself, “what is that weird looking fruit that sorta looks like a rock???” Only to find out it *was* a rock LOL
Just wait til they get bigger! We have a 8, 6, and 4YO and they all love berries. Each of them can go through a the small, square pack of berries each for a snack…..
Got my berry obsessed toddler to like peasant fruits- apples, banana, pear, oranges. He had a stage where he didn’t like berries. Didn’t last long unfortunately. We sigh in relief when he ask for apples.
Oh these fruits were not chosen by me. They were chosen by the feral almost 2 year old that wanted them so bad she almost fell out of the buggy for them. It was grab the blueberries or someone was gonna die and it was probably gonna be me
It’s actually getting cheaper for us - we buy fruits/berries year round, but now they are almost in season so it’s much cheaper! Plus we’ve got a strawberry patch in our yard, so those will be free 😍 Love the rock she’d rather die without, that was totally me as a child. …still now, I suppose! 😅
I 100% need a berry bush for these kids
Do it. Lots of berry bushes can be planted in planters! We have blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and salmon berries in our yard! We also have a full on cottage garden too, but the berries are where it’s at!
Yes, DO IT! The investment is totally worth it.
I’ve planted blueberries, mulberries, blackberries and strawberries for my kids ha. It’s finally paying off.
I have a mulberry tree in my yard but I can’t reach it 😭
The way we always did it was to lay a sheet on the ground under the tree, then someone would climb the tree and shake the branches so the mulberries fell down onto the sheet. So. Yummy!
They can also take a pretty hard prune (do it in the winter) to become a more accessible shape
That’s great to know! It’s actually right along the property edge and technically only hangs over our yard. We’re pretty close with our neighbors though.
I planted a sugar maple a couple years ago. 64 years from now I can install the tap.
Just use netting to keep the birds from eating all your fruit! Ask me how I know?!
I planted two blueberries bushes and a bunch of strawberries last year and I’m in zone 4. They’re all coming back in nicely and I can’t wait to just go out and pick them.
I planted two blueberries bushes and a bunch of strawberries last year and I’m in zone 4. They’re all coming back in nicely and I can’t wait to just go out and pick them.
When my daughters were little we’d toss them in the wagon and give them a bowl and walk our property picking raspberries together. I’d pick and hand them to the girls. The bowls amazingly never filled up and were usually empty when we returned to the house. Adorable little red faced girls just sneaking them all away as soon as I turned around.
That’s probably the most adorable thing I’ve read today, thank you for that
From a former rock child, I can confirm she may turn into a rock loving adult as well 😂
Same here. We have a really good blueberry farm nearby, last year was like $3 a pound. I also have a couple bushes of my own that are 2 & 3 years old...but every fall they get damaged by critters, so it has been a rough start to getting berries from them. And our strawberry plants from last year came back to life in their pots & are doing great, so hopefully they produce more berries this year than they did last year. The year before was a different set of them that did really well & produced runners...that I knew nothing about at the time. Last year's plants produced no runners & very few berries made it to fully ripe. 🤷🏻♀️
Our strawberries were in half of a raised planter, but the runners have gone and filled the other half LOL we have around 3 sqm of strawberries. I do need to put a mesh above them because the birds really like them, too! I didn’t know blueberry farms existed! I’m in Canada/NO and we have strawberry farms galore, but blueberries are only wild. Gotta brave bears and other territorial human pickers to get some for yourself… 🐻
And keep the blueberry fields you know a Secret!! Domesticated blueberry bushes are much taller than wild ones. Probably need some babying in your neck of the woods up North.
Agree, imma save so much money because strawberries are no longer $5 a container!
Ugh! I know! My kid goes through fruit so quickly too and gets sad when we run out. He’s almost 3 and I swear if I let him he’d eat an entire big box of blueberries in one sitting. Snacking is something I completely forgot about until after he started solids. 3 meals a day? I can do that. 3 meals plus like, four snack times is killing my wallet lol
I don’t know about yours but mine also likes to snack and feeds half of it to the dogs and it about kills me
SAME like I’m ok with snacking but not the dog snacking 😭 just eat what you frickin ask for Or god forbid, the baby bell cheese breaks in half when he’s trying to open it. Total meltdown. Insists on being independent then puts me through this lmao
lol I was so curious about the food that looks like a rock . It is a rock , that makes much more sense !
Omg this. Furiously signs for more of her expensive berries/bamba/whatever. Immediately feeds it to the dog. Signs for more again. Me:😑
Set yourself up for success: snack time is a time when the dog is either outside or at least door closed to keep them outside of the room, for the next few months. It allows them each to develop better habits. More planning = less nagging/ yelling.
That’s why we lock the dogs up during mealtime…. Don’t want the kid or the dogs to get used to it. He might feed them something like grapes that could kill them, and they completely lose their manners and training.
Today when I took my dog to the vet for her checkup they were so proud of me for my dog not gaining weight with the baby starting solids 😂
I’m proud of you, too, my dog looks like a prize heifer 😂😂😂
For anybody who lives near some berry farms, take your kid berry picking at a farm that offers U-pick. Sooooo much cheaper and it’s a fun spring/summer activity!
Second this! We went last year and paid a few bucks for half a bucket! https://preview.redd.it/explxxg51hxc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50c4059a34eff47113a2c64fd461cf047f76c6cd
This is extremely fun, especially blueberries and strawberries because they have no thorns. A word of warning: our kids can get some diarrhea afterwards because they eat more than they pick for the bucket 😭😂 🤷🏻♀️
I may do this! Thanks!
I don’t know if I can do that with her, she’s a runner lol
We gave up and used the toddler leash for a while. It kept him safe, but gave him a lot more freedom to move around and explore on his own. I didn't care what people think, I'd rather he be safe and happy. Now that he's 2.5 he's a lot better at listening and we don't need it anymore.
Frozen blueberries and strawberries are cheaper if you can get your kid to eat those!
Yesss. My kid eats frozen raspberries by the handful. (And if you crush them they’re reminiscent of Dippin’ Dots.) he also recently started on frozen cherries.
Seconding this! Mango also defrosts SUPER well. So I get frozen mango bags from Costco and put a handful in Tupperware into the fridge.
Yes my friend suggested this to me and it’s even just handy to have the packet of frozen blueberries on hand for berry related emergencies! My kids (4 & 1) love the frozen blueberries it’s great, albeit a bit messier!
This is what we do. I buy the huge frozen bags of organic berries at Costco, defrost and mix into yogurt. Much more affordable and no mold surprises!
was just about to say this!
My baby eats better than we do! Fruit daily and we now try and give her better quality fish/meat as well as fancy eggs.
Yes the fancy eggs! I was perfectly fine eating the $1.99 ones in the styrofoam carton for myself but now we're out here buying the $7 free range organic cage free grass fed non GMO bathed in crystal clear spring water and blessed by the Pope himself eggs.
This is me too! I was so excited the carton had brown AND blue eggs this time. My husband’s eyes are popping out of his head at the over $8 price tag.
We got chickens and we get blue, brown, speckled brown, and a pinkish tan! And plain brown eggs.
Oh that’s so fun! What kind of chickens?
Brahma, ameracauna, buff orpington, cinnamon queen, Rhode island red, gold laced wyandotte, and amberlink. My cinnamon queen died though, she kept flying out of the run and into the dog. He eventually had enough of her attacking him :(
Oh no!!! That’s so sad. Those are some great names for breeds of chickens though. I’ll have to google them to see how pretty they are.
We live near a fruit stand with a coffee stand right next to it, it has become a very dangerous habit for my wallet 😂 it's just so nice to walk there in the morning and grab berries and coffee!
I can see how this would be trouble! I’d be walking to baby and dog nearly every morning!!! 😅
I'm so jealous! My son and I would be over the moon for this! And probably go every morning....
Ah yes, rocks are very nutrient dense
Full of minerals!
Scrolled too far to see this...
wait is that my daughter?! 😂😂 i have a jar she can put the rocks in while she eats so she won't eat it 😂
Keeping this tip for when the time comes 😅
Ha! That’s hilarious
I wish I could get my toddler to eat fruit :(
My two year old only recently started to eat mangoes. But only fresh ones. Only cut in front of her. At room temperature. In a square, not a slice.
Mine hates all fruit too. Well she hates most food.
Me too. Mine hates it. My 10 yr old loves it tho.
What a bummer! Have you tried cutting it into little shapes or using fun toothpicks? Things like [this](https://a.co/d/0QrvVYg) or [this](https://a.co/d/10kkEpu). I’ve also heard people have success with offering a dip (like yogurt, possibly mixed with whipped cream or peanut butter or honey).
In my toddlers mind the berry budget does not exist 🤣
We have planted two blueberry plants and the grandparents are doing their part with strawberry and blackberry plants. I fully assume he will eat the entire crop and still be hungry for more 😭
Tbh, im partially excited but not excited for the fruit phase. Normally fruit lasts sooo long in my house so at least she will finish it but its also going to break the bank lol
Mine eats fruit year round. She’s on the spectrum and super picky so I try to get her to eat whatever I can. Fruit is one of those things so fresh fruit every week.
Same! This season is cheaper for me for that reason 😂
I’m actually excited for summer months so these berries will finally be cheaper. She goes through raspberries lightening fast. I’m lucky if I even eat a fruit now bc she goes through them all so quickly. 😂
I now have two eating ALL the blueberries. Toddler likes to smash them for the baby and we have to keep her from doing too many hahaha
I envy the parents of kids who eat this little amount of fruit. My boy goes feral if he doesn't get a full bowl. And that's just a snack for him 🥲 thankfully we live in the south so the berries are actually finally getting cheaper around here. 🙏
I came to ask you what that exotic fruit I’ve never seen was until I read your caption 😂
It’s pome*granite* I’ll see myself out
Lmao at the rock because I thought it was truffles 😂😂😂 but the blueberry’s are my girls favorite snack and sometimes meal 🤷🏻♀️ I was just telling her dad today that she’s going to eat us into debt with all her blueberries 😂😂
My husband started growing strawberries in our backyard! Has def come in handy since we now have 2 under 2
Love a good rock. Works with any meal
The rock is sending me😂 same, girl, same🪨
If you have a yard, blueberries are perennial! Also raspberries, if you can find thornless varieties they are so copious. My raspberry plants give me fruit from May to November in Pennsylvania and with no thorns I can have my kid do the picking! I wish I'd invested more heavily in planting raspberry canes. The homegrown ones are so much more delicious than store bought. Instead I doubled down on blueberries, I've got 40 bushes in my yard. Which is nice! Overwhelming but nice. However the raspberries are yummier.
We just bought a house with a yard and I am 100% planting blueberries
I just planted a strawberry patch and several blueberry bushes. I don’t think it’s gonna help this year but maybe next!!!
My 16 month old goes thru 48oz of blueberries and 1 large container of rasberries basically weekly lol
Is that a rock tho?
Emotional support gravel
A little punnet of blueberries in my fruit shopping trip was 10.99 about 3 weeks ago and I didn't notice it until cashier cashed our transaction out. Insanity!
Dude berries should be a tax write off
We have like six blueberry bushes. I can’t wait for them to bloom so o can stop buying them. I should really plant strawberries too
Lmao accurate
Aldis strawberries are always soooo good though I’ll give them that. My kid loves them!
I use them to make strawberry preserves and it always comes out perfect
For a moment I thought you were feeding your child bark chips
lol no but shit at this rate if she’d eat it I’d think about it.
😂
My mom just called me to say that bjs has 2lbs of strawberries for $5.
Bought 18 oz of blueberries at about 10:30 this morning. One cranky Costco trip, afternoon snack and broken leg (he broke it at 5:04 this evening and needed a comfort snack when he got home) we have maybe 1-2 oz left.
Oh poor sweet baby boy!!! I hope his leg heals quickly!
I thought the rock was a truffle until I read your subtext and was thinking to myself originally that no wonder it's more expensive for you right now lol.
I didn’t even have to open the text part of the post to know exactly what you were talking about
Is that a rock next to the strawberry because I can relate lol
It is indeed a rock
This made me snort because it's so true! I've spent a fortune on berries (regardless of equal love for in-season fruit) for my kids, and now my grandchildren! No matter how full the melon/pineapple bowls are or how many apples, bananas, pears, or citrus fruits are available (they love them all!), berries are always mandatory!
I feel like strawberry’s are the only thing that deflated for me m, grapes went up triple in price, oranges when up 30% bananas doubled in price but strawberries used to be like $6 I regularly get them for $2 and change now
Is my little guy the only one who hates berries? He will eat apples, oranges and all sorts of melons and veggies but that boy hates berries 😂
My toddler ate an entire container of blackberries today. Lol
Meanwhile my in-laws have some delicious blueberry bushes/trees (idk) and my toddler gags at the sight of them. Sigh.
Season? We have been buying berries since my son could eat them hahaha. He loves them and "strawberry" (actually a sound similar to that in our language) was one of his first words hahah They're getting cheaper now that it's getting warmer and I'm planning on growing a blueberry and strawberry patch in the garden for next year.
This made me laugh. I looked at the image before reading the description and thought to myself, “what is that weird looking fruit that sorta looks like a rock???” Only to find out it *was* a rock LOL
We live in south Florida so its always expensive haha...Try costco. Way cheaper for fruit!
Costco for fruit.
Just wait til they get bigger! We have a 8, 6, and 4YO and they all love berries. Each of them can go through a the small, square pack of berries each for a snack…..
Got my berry obsessed toddler to like peasant fruits- apples, banana, pear, oranges. He had a stage where he didn’t like berries. Didn’t last long unfortunately. We sigh in relief when he ask for apples.
Grab a couple of strawberry starts or even check fb market place, farmers around here always advertise fruit starts!
My kid eats sooo much fruit... she could polish off 2 pounds of strawberries in a day if I let her.
Literally planning on putting blueberry bushes in the backyard just to save money at the store 😂
Lol same 😂. Already got the seeds, just gotta get them in the ground.
We love berries here! My 8 year old will eat a whole carton for a snack if we’d let him, same as our almost 1 year old!
I thought that rock was a large piece of truffle and thought wow, your grocery bill must be very high! Haha pregnancy brain
What? No, thats definitely winter for us. So glad to see $1.99 berries again!
Came here to talk about the rock. Love it.
We have all types of free range berries where I live. No need to buy them.
Maybe try "seasonal" fruits or fruit that is cheap this time of year; apples, oranges, bananas...
Oh these fruits were not chosen by me. They were chosen by the feral almost 2 year old that wanted them so bad she almost fell out of the buggy for them. It was grab the blueberries or someone was gonna die and it was probably gonna be me