What are the seasonal foods in summer in Tasmania?
Eating locally grown food can be good for you and your budget
This summer try foods that are fresh, in season, grown locally and support local farmers, which sometimes are cheaper too. Fresh, locally grown foods may be more nutritious than foods that have been in storage or travelled from overseas. If you’re looking for lower priced foods, locally grown, in-season foods are sometimes cheaper too. You may find them at local grocers, markets, roadside stalls, local food ‘crop swap‘ groups, and community gardens (volunteer to help, grow your own and sometimes they have free excess produce to share), or you or a friend or family member may even grow them at home.
So, what are the seasonal foods in summer? Our good friends at Eat Well Tasmania suggest we enjoy some of these summer favourites among our other staple foods:
- Corn
- Berries
- Spinach
- Asian Greens
- Beans
- Tomatoes
Check out Eat Well Tasmania’s excellent booklet with recipes you can make from foods available to us in summer right now.
How to make Berry Biscuits
In summer we are blessed with a range of delicious berries. This recipe from Eat Well Tasmania allows you to use your favourite berries to make fibre-filled biscuits. This is a great base recipe for biscuits and can be adapted each season to include other seasonal fruits too.
Go to Eat Well Tasmania’s Berry Biscuit Recipe
This information is general in nature and individualised medical advice should be sought from a general practitioner (GP) or appropriate medical practitioner.
