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kbell
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Fruit

#1 Post by kbell » August 27th, 2007, 11:21 pm

I suspect that we Scots eat less fruit than just about anyone else. However, this isn't about nationality. It's about getting to know each other.

:)

I haven't made it a poll because there are too many fruits but I would like people to tell me whether they eat their five portions a day. If not, how much do you eat? If you say nothing else say what your favourite fruit is. Or which fruit you hate.

For me personally, nothing eats a nice big juicy orange.

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#2 Post by Maria Mac » August 27th, 2007, 11:28 pm

I used to eat loads of fruit until I moved to Scotland. Now I only eat one or two pieces a day. A banana and an apple, usually.

My favourite fruit until recently was pineapple but I now find it difficult to eat because it makes my teeth hurt.

Recently, my sister-in-law introduced me to Pakistani mangoes, quite different any mango bought from a supermarket, and probably the nearest thing to heaven I've ever eaten.

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#3 Post by Alan H » August 27th, 2007, 11:55 pm

Maria wrote:Recently, my sister-in-law introduced me to Pakistani mangoes, quite different any mango bought from a supermarket, and probably the nearest thing to heaven I've ever eaten.
Definitely! They were delicious!

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#4 Post by Alan C. » August 27th, 2007, 11:57 pm

Autumn
I haven't made it a poll because there are too many fruits but I would like people to tell me whether they eat their five portions a day.
Well the thinking is, 5 portions of fruit AND OR vegetables, a day.
We certainly, (at least through summer) eat 7 or 8 a day, all home grown and organic (for the pedantic, this means without artificial herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers)
Just now, we are eating daily, French beans, mange tout, Courgettes, cauliflower, Tatties, Strawberries, Cucumber, Tomatoes, Chinese cabbage,et al.
You can't beat a carrot or a tattie, or anything really, that has just been harvested, Scrummy.
We had 24 organic Peaches last week (I know it's not a lot but it's a young tree)
In the next two weeks I will be harvesting..............maybe 8 to 10 kilos of Victoria plums, (again, only a young tree) If we can't eat them all, I will be turning them into wine.
EVERYBODY SHOULD GROW STUFF.
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#5 Post by Staf » August 28th, 2007, 11:42 am

I like very much all fruit. If you ask my favourite I say it's probably cantaloupe.

For vegetables it depends so much on how they are cooked and what they are eaten with. In general I prefer a salad with my meal than plain, cooked vegetables.

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#6 Post by lewist » August 28th, 2007, 9:40 pm

My father owned a fruit shop. Everything we couldn't sell came home. It was often bruised and you cut out the bruises. Most often it was ripe. A lot of the time we had the fruit at its best when customers wouldn't buy it.
Alan C. wrote:In the next two weeks I will be harvesting..............maybe 8 to 10 kilos of Victoria plums, (again, only a young tree) If we can't eat them all, I will be turning them into wine.
One of my childhood memories is of going one September evening to Newburgh in the north of Fife to buy a van load of Victoria Plums. They were mainly pre-sold to customers for bottling but they were ripe and ready to eat. We three children sat in the back of the van on the way home and ate. I don't remember if there were metabolic repercussions the next day. What I remember is these delicious plums. You don't seem to get them like that these days.

We eat quite a lot of fruit: apples, oranges when they're good, grapes, bananas, melon whatever we can get. Here on Speyside the strawberries are really good and we have eaten a lot of them this summer.

:)
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#7 Post by Noggin » August 28th, 2007, 9:46 pm

I'm not sure I could pick a favourite fruit. I like different things at different times and it partly depends on what's in season or what's good at the supermarket.

The one fruit I definitely couldn't live without would be tomatoes but I would miss my apple crumbles big time!
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#8 Post by tubataxidriver » August 28th, 2007, 10:44 pm

I vote too for the Pakistani mango. One of the advantages of having a thriving Pakistani community here in Aylesbury is that the market stalls all stock these fruit, usually in boxes of 4-5.

My all-time hate is durian, which I was conned into eating in eastern Indonesia. Cross between rotting flesh and sick. Apparently some people like them.

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#9 Post by Alan H » August 28th, 2007, 11:54 pm

IIRC, the five a day bit was invented a dietician, not necessarily based on much evidence. I think he/she just took a guess at what would be a good amount of fruit and veg to eat in a day.

However, it may well be about right - anyone know about this?

I have gone downhill a bit over this last year, but I was getting my five a day. New Year's resolution: get back to five!

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Re: Fruit

#10 Post by Deacon Doubtmonger » August 29th, 2007, 6:11 am

Autumn wrote:If you say nothing else say what your favourite fruit is.
Wild Cherry Pepsi.

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#11 Post by Nick » August 29th, 2007, 10:40 am

I'm afraid my fruit diet is appalling as I can't stand them! And yes, I know that's odd, and no, I'm not going to 'just try some'. The worst? Gooseberries and rhubarb.:sick:

I do have tomatoes in casseroles etc, and I know I should have more veggies, though I'm not particularly fussy over them (can't stand cucumber though)

Grapes and apples are fine when fermented :thumbsup:

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#12 Post by Alan C. » August 29th, 2007, 1:05 pm

Nick
The worst? Gooseberries and rhubarb
I made rhubarb and apple crumble on Sunday, it was scrummy with double cream :scorepoint: Did you know rhubarb is a vegetable, not a fruit?
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#13 Post by Nick » August 29th, 2007, 1:15 pm

No, but, as far as I'm concerned, I treat the whole thing as poisonous, not just the leaves, just to be sure!

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#14 Post by Maria Mac » August 29th, 2007, 2:31 pm

I have difficulty keeping rhubarb down. Don't know why. A few times I've tried rhubarb crumble and it's made me wretch.

On the whole I would find it harder to live without vegetables than fruit. I especially love asparagus and broccoli, parsnips, squash, peppers and potatoes but I will eat any vegetables - except rhubarb - whereas there are a several fruits that I can't bear including most berries, pomegranates and kiwi fruit.

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#15 Post by Shake » August 29th, 2007, 7:31 pm

Apples, bananas, grapes, watermelon, honeydew, raisins, kiwis ... yeah, I like a fair range of fruit. Whenever my wife gets a sundae, I get the cherry off of it.

I don't eat as much fruit as they say you should, but I've been doing better lately.

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#16 Post by Lifelinking » August 29th, 2007, 8:46 pm

If we can't eat them all, I will be turning them into wine.
does it still count towards your five portions when you do that?


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#17 Post by Chineapple punk » August 29th, 2007, 9:35 pm

I can't handle pomegranates! I've never actually tasted one because I find them so repulsive.

The mighty banana is my favourite fruit closely followed by strawberries.
Give quiche a chance.

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#18 Post by Alan C. » August 29th, 2007, 10:43 pm

chineapple punk
The mighty banana is my favorite fruit closely followed by strawberries.
Ah yes, the banana, "the Atheists nightmare" :laughter:
I have two gallons of strawberry wine fermenting now, and yes Lifelinking, I do kid myself that this still counts as one of my five a day :thumbsup:
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#19 Post by Chineapple punk » August 29th, 2007, 11:08 pm

Lol. Yeh, and apparently PEANUT BUTTER is also the atheists nightmare because when we open a jar of it a new life from does not pop out of it , therefore, the theory of evolution is wrong!!!!!????? (go figure). :hilarity:
Give quiche a chance.

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#20 Post by Noggin » August 31st, 2007, 10:03 am

Chineapple punk wrote:Lol. Yeh, and apparently PEANUT BUTTER is also the atheists nightmare because when we open a jar of it a new life from does not pop out of it , therefore, the theory of evolution is wrong!!!!!????? (go figure). :hilarity:
:supershock:

I must thick because I can't figure this one at all! Source?
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