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How do you eat fruit?

Marianne72

I have rituals with eating different types of fruit - do share yours! I put prepared fruit in a small bowl before eating:

1. bananas - remove skin, including the little pit and 'strings', cut into 2" chunks

2. apples - cut into four, slice off cores, then cut each into 2

3. grapes - take a small bunch and remove stems

4. mango - slice into 2, slice out the pit, eat rest with spoon

Pears are a special case, being notoriously unpredictable. They go from hard to mush in an indeterminate time. This fruit appears to be sentient, so the best approach is to saunter past the bowl nonchalently, careful not to 'eyeball' it [in the manner of David Attenborough and the gorillas]. On the return journey, casually stroke the skin and take a little prod [that way this naughty fruit is less aware of your interest]. Do the same every day - eave it a day and it's bound to be too late! On what seems an appropriate encounter, grab said fruit, quickly prepare and pop into your mouth to savour. Voila!

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  • I don't eat as much fruit (tend to eat more veg and salad), I have a habit of 'saving it for the kids', but after reading the thread I've made sure to have a satsuma yesterday and a plum today as they weren't getting eaten and then they go bad and have to be thrown out. (My daughter lives off fruit so there is always some).

    I do like an apple sliced up and popped on some peanut butter on toast. One time when we were visiting family in Ireland, I'd cut up an apple for the kids, and my sister-in-law thought it looked nice, so I did one for her, then my mother-in-law thought it looked nice, so I did one for her too!

    Not had it in a while, but tinned peaches and custard is a good one.

    When it's ready, rhubarb from the garden is good in a crumble with vanilla ice-cream. There is also lots of red/white/black currents, though those mostly get eaten by my daughter or made into jam. I should really try to do something with all the gooseberries though.

    And I did love that description of how to catch a pear. My daughter went through a phase of wanting pears, but it was very difficult to get them when ripe! Sometimes we'd just buy them in pots like   as it was more reliable!

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  • I don't eat as much fruit (tend to eat more veg and salad), I have a habit of 'saving it for the kids', but after reading the thread I've made sure to have a satsuma yesterday and a plum today as they weren't getting eaten and then they go bad and have to be thrown out. (My daughter lives off fruit so there is always some).

    I do like an apple sliced up and popped on some peanut butter on toast. One time when we were visiting family in Ireland, I'd cut up an apple for the kids, and my sister-in-law thought it looked nice, so I did one for her, then my mother-in-law thought it looked nice, so I did one for her too!

    Not had it in a while, but tinned peaches and custard is a good one.

    When it's ready, rhubarb from the garden is good in a crumble with vanilla ice-cream. There is also lots of red/white/black currents, though those mostly get eaten by my daughter or made into jam. I should really try to do something with all the gooseberries though.

    And I did love that description of how to catch a pear. My daughter went through a phase of wanting pears, but it was very difficult to get them when ripe! Sometimes we'd just buy them in pots like   as it was more reliable!

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