As Australian food prices rise, ‘robust’ cauliflower and cabbage are April’s best value fruit and veg

Georgina Hayden's cauliflower, lentils and chorizo. Photograph: Kim Lightbody/The Guardian. Food and prop styling: Florence Blair. Food styling assistant: Phoebe Altman.

As roast and soup season starts, it is “a good time for brassicas”, says Graham Gee, senior buyer at the Happy Apple in Melbourne – “cauliflower and broccoli”. “You get a good supply of cabbage, kale, silverbeet and leeks too. All the robust veggies.”

While they might not be ultra cheap, he says “a whole cauliflower can go a long way. You can feed a lot of people with them.”