SN2N: Day 2 - Fruit Stocktake (Fruittake?)

The 5+-a-day folks say we should eat 2 servings of fruit a day (and at least 3 of veges). If I'm not shopping for a while, what will I do when the fresh fruit on hand runs out? What other fruit servings do I have available?

I decided to do a fruit stocktake - or should that be "fruittake"? 

Fruit doesn't have to be fresh to be good for you (though obviously that's optimal). It can also be frozen, dried, canned/preserved or juiced. Here's what I found we have available:

Fresh fruit: 
12 manderins (keep for ages in fridge)
2 mangos (50c each from Countdown last week)
13 green-ish bananas in bags
2 very ripe bananas (use in smoothies)
20 apples
Lots of lemons on small tree in garden

Canned and bottled fruit (items shown presentative only - couldn't be bothered getting everything out the cupboards!)
10 cans peaches in juice
1 can applesauuse
19 large jars and 12 dressing jars of homemade applesauce (it's yum! use the recipe and make some!)
1 catering can pears in water
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Dried fruit:
3 small packs apricots
1 1/2 packs sultanas
2 1/2 packs dates
1 1/2 packs mangoes (gifts from Fillopino friends)
Small jar of homegrown dried strawberries
Small roll homegrown grape leather

Mostly used in homemade museli, occasionally things like rice salad, or to make things like carob balls. Very occassionally a small handful or a few pieces to snack on.

Frozen fruit:
5 kg blueberries
1 1/2 kg mixed berries
1 kg blackcurrants
Container home-grown plums
Small bag homegrown Chilean guavas
1/3 icecream container home grown strawberries
1/2 icecream container homegrown blackberries

2 bankers boxes + 2 bags bananas - bought in bulk when supermarket had *damaged* bananas - most of which were perfectly good except for skins. I free-flow froze them on trays, then bagged and packed in banker's boxes - which conveniently stand up in the chest freezer, allowing me to stack rows of various things in boxes and pull what I need at a time. I mostly use these in smoothies, but over winter got out of the habit of using frozen ones as I didn't want the smoothies so thick and cold. Time to get using them again!
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Other:
1 litre apple juice

Garden - future fruit:
There are also some strawberries and blueberries not too far from ripening in the garden, a decent crop of Chilean guavas a few months away, and immature feijoas, apples and pears growing. My watermelon and banana melon vines are young, but will have fruit in a few months. The grapevines have lots of bunches on them - so long as I get nets on to keep birds off.

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Seems we won't have too much problem getting our servings of fruit for a while! I usually have a smoothie made with a banana and some frozen berries for breakfast. We can use applesauce on cereal or porridge - or on yoghurt, or by itself - and make snack items with dried fruit. Canned fruit can be used on breakfast or in desserts.

I hadn't realised just how much frozen berries I had, so rearranged the freezers a little to group them together - a small quantity for first use in one drawer of our upright freezer, and the rest in one corner of the chest freezer. If you can't rearrange your freezers completely at this time of year (hard to pull everything out as it will defrost so fast in this heat), then do it a little at a time. It's way more efficient to group like items together - so you can easily see what you have and find what you need.