A moan about supermarket fruit

Every week, I buy what looks like a delicious bowl of healthy fruit. Several days later, it's either hard as a bullet or full of tiny annoying flies. If I want to eat fruit immediately, I'm forced to buy expensive, 'ready to eat' fruits. When did this happen?? For decades, I bought and ate fruit immediately - sometimes snaffling a piece or two on the way home from the supermarket [does anyone else do this, with fruit and pastries?]. You almost have to babysit pears and plums for example - I'll swear they wink at each other, before slumping into an unhealthy-looking puddle. The only ones who don't mind are birds, who love my cast-off grapes, nectarines, plums and bananas.

Parents
  • It is hit and miss with getting good fruit. I tend to put two of a punnet of something like peaches or plums in the fruit bowl and the rest in the fridge, then as they ripen, take out another, so as to pace them, as I don't want them all being ready to eat at once. Sometimes they just never ripen and go straight from hard to mushy.

    Anything starting to go a little too soft is good for a smoothie, either to drink or put into ice lolly molds.

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  • It is hit and miss with getting good fruit. I tend to put two of a punnet of something like peaches or plums in the fruit bowl and the rest in the fridge, then as they ripen, take out another, so as to pace them, as I don't want them all being ready to eat at once. Sometimes they just never ripen and go straight from hard to mushy.

    Anything starting to go a little too soft is good for a smoothie, either to drink or put into ice lolly molds.

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