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Feb 8, 2009 7:34:58 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 8, 2009 7:34:58 GMT
After a weekend of pizza, hot dogs and braai, I am feeling bloated and sluggish, so I will be doing a "fruit day" today.
Am off to the shop to buy
Mago Papaya Grapes Bananas
and any other fruit that look inviting.
What, if anything, do you do when you feel that you have over indulged?
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Feb 8, 2009 11:13:02 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 11:13:02 GMT
Grapefruit perhaps and I also like stewed prunes (soak some dried guys in lemon Juice & a little H20 over a low flame) add a little cinnamon.
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Feb 8, 2009 12:02:55 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 12:02:55 GMT
Like most men, I am not a big fruit eater but mostly because I am not a big fan of sweet items.
I would say that my order of preference is: tangerines, cherries, bananas
I do like some tropical fruits like lychees, dragonfruit or starfruit, but they are not part of my common consumption.
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Feb 8, 2009 12:16:02 GMT
Post by tillystar on Feb 8, 2009 12:16:02 GMT
I struggle to eat the stuff as well. I force myself to eat a piece a day and it usually bananas, kiwi or tangerines. I love raspberries and blueberries...and melon is great for a hangover.
I can't bear uncooked apples (but love them baked or in desserts), they make me hungry - does this happen to anyone else?
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Feb 8, 2009 13:06:09 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 8, 2009 13:06:09 GMT
Tilly, I also find that apples make me hungry, I wonder what that is all about?
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Feb 8, 2009 13:18:25 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 8, 2009 13:18:25 GMT
I have been happily munching on bananas and dried apple. I made a pot of sweet potato, lots of fibre, I also stocked up on a few nuts to nibble on.
Great semi detox day!
Since the beginning of January, we have started eating meat on Thursday nights and veggies, lentils and chickpeas the rest of the time. It is amazing how my body is now feeling sluggish after a few days of meat.
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Feb 8, 2009 14:03:30 GMT
Post by lagatta on Feb 8, 2009 14:03:30 GMT
I usually prefer veg to fruit - I can't digest apples unless they are cooked, and usually that isn't very healthy. However, I LOVE fresh berries in season; (little) strawberries, raspberry and what we call "blueberries", which are a bit like myrtilles in France and very common in bogs in Québec (and Maine).
In the winter here, fruit has been stored or shipped in, so it doesn't have much flavour.
Don't have a sweet tooth either, if I indulge in snacks they are salty, savoury things, not sweets.
Yesterday I made a stir fry for supper, nothing but vegetables including mung beans I sprout myself, added at the last second. But flavoured with ginger, garlic and thai fish sauce.
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Feb 8, 2009 15:18:51 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 15:18:51 GMT
Apples -- the forbidden fruit. Obviously they are very appealing to ladies!
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Feb 8, 2009 16:17:46 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2009 16:17:46 GMT
humph ........... if you choose to believe that old shifting of guilt.
I never liked apples much when I lived in the States. The ones available were always perfect looking, but lacked taste and the texture was never the juicy crispness that should be found in apples. Maybe because I lived in the south, I missed out on good apples grown further north -- I don't know.
Since moving here, though, I've developed a mania for apples. I skip the pretty-on-the-outside Red Delicious and others shipped down from the US and go for the homelier ones grown in this country & only available in season. What a difference!
It's interesting that Lagatta is listing favorites that are seasonal and specific to her climate, also. It makes me think that we like or don't like certain fruits based on whether or not we've had the good versions of them.
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Feb 8, 2009 16:20:47 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 16:20:47 GMT
When I was growing up, I absolutely LOVED the blackberries that I would pick in abundance and which we would eat with cream and sugar or in a pie (cobbler) or even on breakfast cereal. But when I moved from my childhood home, blackberries pretty much went out of my life forever, and I don't think about them anymore.
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Feb 8, 2009 16:48:42 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 8, 2009 16:48:42 GMT
Yeah blackberry picking was a great childhood activity and those berries were good!
The one thing from my region that I sorely miss are fresh figs. *sob* They are mostly sold green around here, to be cooked with syrup. What a violation. I have two little trees planted, but they're not thrilled with the climate & soil.
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Feb 8, 2009 16:51:42 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 16:51:42 GMT
We had fig trees, too, but I was never a big fan of figs although I did appreciate them to a certain extent. I think any fruit that you can pick yourself and eat immediately has a certain attraction. I used to even pick and eat mulberries off the bush, and those in retrospect were totally worthless in terms of gastronomy.
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Feb 9, 2009 4:54:17 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 9, 2009 4:54:17 GMT
Fruit day done, and I feel like a lighter, happier person.
K2, isn't THAT story from the bible, the book you do NOT believe in? Hmmmm?
I am trying to grow a naked peach tree, would be lovely to walk out and pick my own fruit.
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Feb 9, 2009 5:59:47 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2009 5:59:47 GMT
K2, isn't THAT story from the bible, the book you do NOT believe in? Hmmmm? Yeah, but it was written by some guy who clearly knew quite a bit about women. Look at all of those tales of treachery!
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Feb 9, 2009 6:01:23 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 9, 2009 6:01:23 GMT
Can't live with us, can't leave us on the side of the road, what is a man s'possed to do?
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Feb 9, 2009 6:56:00 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 9, 2009 6:56:00 GMT
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Feb 9, 2009 7:08:58 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 9, 2009 7:08:58 GMT
It has FINALLY happened, Google can read your mind!
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Feb 9, 2009 7:11:45 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 9, 2009 7:11:45 GMT
I just posted a mind-reading item in Waterfront Park -- this is getting creepy!
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Feb 9, 2009 7:19:28 GMT
Post by palesa on Feb 9, 2009 7:19:28 GMT
This is getting creepy!
TIme for me to step out of this vortex before it is too late.
*crawls out backwards*
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Feb 9, 2009 7:50:33 GMT
Post by mockchoc on Feb 9, 2009 7:50:33 GMT
Bixa, when I was back home this weekend my dads two fig trees had lots of fruit on them but none ready for about another week! So not fair.
Luckily his black and white grapes were ready to pick so things aren't so bad.
When I indulge OP I just indulge again. Simple. Don't care for feeling guilty anymore because it's got to be bad for your health too.
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Feb 10, 2009 21:14:57 GMT
Post by auntieannie on Feb 10, 2009 21:14:57 GMT
Like several of you, I am not crazy about fruit... partly because I used to have access to wonderful fruit in season and buying the same in a supermarket at any time of the year puts me off.
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Feb 11, 2009 4:19:18 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 11, 2009 4:19:18 GMT
Mockchoc, even though I know Australia has the opposite seasons from my part of the world, it still seems so strange to read about figs in February -- or grapes, for that matter.
Hey -- didn't you get an ice cream maker a while back? Ask Casimira how to make fig ice cream!
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Feb 11, 2009 5:53:39 GMT
Post by mockchoc on Feb 11, 2009 5:53:39 GMT
My dad lives too far away to get his figs bixa and in the shop they are never very cheap anyway. Think I'll try some other type of icecream. $32 per kilo they are were I work but they do look very nice!
I'm thinking walnut and honey ice cream next time.
Umm... yes only used the machine twice so far. I just like to make it, I don't eat lots of sweets!
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Feb 11, 2009 6:20:54 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 6:20:54 GMT
I am mourning the end of tangerine season. They're still for sale of course but are so much less appealing than the ones you see in December.
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Jul 9, 2009 4:47:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 4:47:27 GMT
One of the first things that I will do next week in the south of France is to buy locally grown peaches and melons that have not been trucked back and forth all over the continent.
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Jul 9, 2009 6:31:16 GMT
Post by bazfaz on Jul 9, 2009 6:31:16 GMT
We eat fruit at lunch and dinner. Yesterday it was peaches and the first melon of the summer. Eating good fruit is no hardship for us. I have only just stopped picking cherries. One of our neighbours will be coming round for the next 2 months with his peaches. So we will be happy.
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Jul 9, 2009 7:30:33 GMT
Post by spindrift on Jul 9, 2009 7:30:33 GMT
I love fruit. Currently I am eating big black juicy cherries from Turkey, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, pomegranates and Braeburn apples.
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Jul 9, 2009 7:40:56 GMT
Post by bjd on Jul 9, 2009 7:40:56 GMT
We eat fruit at lunch and dinner too. I have been buying local apricots, peaches, nectarines and melons for the past couple of weeks. It's true that the melons are just starting -- the previous ones were from Spain. The best I can get here are "melons de Lectoure", that often are a bit burst open from the sun. They are not mushy, but delicious.
Can't get local apples any more. The first ones will be at the end of August, beginning of September. I never buy them at the supermarket, but buy most of my fruit and veggies at the local market.
The guy who built our house and planted the original garden only liked trees or bushes that produced fruit. Which is why we had 7 pear trees (espalier) -- all the same variety! We took out a few, but since we don't treat anything, they tend to get wormy as soon as the fruit is ripe, so I don't eat them much. This year they look rather small.
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Jul 9, 2009 8:42:37 GMT
Post by spindrift on Jul 9, 2009 8:42:37 GMT
Bjd - I notice that this year isn't a good year for pears in England either. My friend's tree (usually prolific) has very few.
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Jul 9, 2009 11:02:02 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 11:02:02 GMT
The figs have been in for a little over a week now. After making ice cream once and a clafouti,I am now putting them up in jars for the lovely folks up North who can't get them. It is one of the best years for them in a while.
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