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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 22, 2020 23:40:27 GMT
Thursday, 04/23
What is the variety of the veggies and fruit you eat?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 22, 2020 23:45:26 GMT
I don't eat that big of a variety of fruits and veggies. Pretty much eat the same from day to day. For fruits I eat berries, bananas, apples, oranges, and prunes. For veggies I eat lettuce (romaine, red, and green), carrots, celery, green pepper, broccoli, and mushrooms.
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Post by lani on Apr 23, 2020 1:27:25 GMT
I'm going to jump on this now since DH is in the computer room much of the day, but is done for today. I have strawberries, blueberries, boysenberries and a sliced banana on my oatmeal daily. I have an omlette 4 days a week with spinach, tomatoes and portobello mushrooms topped with fresh locally made salsa and locally made guacamole. Dinner varies. This week I had Irish Stew which had onions, carrots, potatoes and parsnips. There is almost always some vegetable component in dinner. On Friday we have a vegetable topped pizza. It has olives, green bell peppers, onions, tomatoes. That is the one from Round Table. The other pizza place we like has the same plus zucchini. I enjoy vegetables much more now than when I was younger. I remember all that sad canned stuff that we would get. And I don't remember salad ever other than lemon jello with shredded carrots and pineapple. Hardly a salad at all! Oh, pot roast with two halves of an onion stuck on the roast with tooth picks, potatoes and carrots roasted with it. That was good. There was not a lot of vegetable action in the Mid-West in the 50s, early 60s. Things picked up when we moved to Cali when I was ten.  |
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 23, 2020 1:43:45 GMT
lani, We moved from Missouri to California when I was eight. My mom never picked up the fresh veggies. We never had salad, mostly canned veggies.
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Post by cathygeha on Apr 23, 2020 6:30:20 GMT
Fruits: What is in season and available in our garden so right now that is pomelo, a few oranges remain and we have lemons. First up will be plums and then the rest will follow. From the produce places we will ask our shopper to buy apples and bananas.
Vegetables: What is in season from our garden and right now that is wild mustard greens, wild radish greens, chicory greens, dandelion greens, lettuce, cabbage, green peas, fava beans and perhaps there might be other things. We have asked Inna to pick up tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and bananas.
When we would actually go to the produce market we would get whatever was the freshest.
We have a lot of fruit and nut trees and have fruit and veg nearly year round. I made jams from the fruit so have: apple, quince, fig, marmalade, plum, mulberry, apricot and...hmm...not sure what else.
We allso have carob trees and take the pods in tot he press that makes carob molasses and trade the pods for the finished product.
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Post by lani on Apr 23, 2020 15:20:00 GMT
cathygeha, I have fruit tree envy! All of mine have died off over the years. Used to have apple, apricot and peach. Still got two Meyer lemon trees, that are kept at bush size so easy to pick.
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Post by luvvinlife on Apr 23, 2020 17:53:04 GMT
Fruit: Apples, banana, pears, red grapes, clementines, oranges. In the summertime it's any kind of melon, peaches, nectarines, mango. Vegetables: asparagus, broccoli, eggplant, all types of squash (except spaghetti squash), turnips, parsnips, mushrooms, cucumber, turnip greens. collard greens, kale, spinach, carrots, artichoke hearts, tomatoes (all types), red onion, vidalia onions, beets, cabbage. I hated vegetables when I was a child but I didn't have a choice about eating them. We had to eat whatever was on our plates no matter whether it was at home, a restaurant, or at someone else's home. ( That's how I learned to overeat, but I also got introduced to new foods. ) It wasn't until I became weight conscious during my college years that I began to enjoy them. |
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 23, 2020 19:13:09 GMT
cathygeha, Loved reading about your fruits and veggies.
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Post by cathygeha on Apr 23, 2020 19:17:58 GMT
Growing up in California (after leaving Iowa in 6th grade) I was amazed by the fresh produce. I was less excited than my mother but we had pomegranate, avocado, feijoa and other trees in the yard. Little did I know that marrying my Lebanese husband and moving to Lebanon would provide a California growing zone and a husband who loved to garden. We didn't plant for decades but in 2000 we built our house on this land and began planting...and never stopped.
We have an abundance my daughter wishes her father would share more of. He does gift things to friends but doesn't let people come in and pick at will.
We are blessed and though we don't have milk and honey we did once have hives and honey bees...may still...don't cultivate them, though. I do believe we could grow just about anything though perhaps not everything  |
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Post by cathygeha on Apr 23, 2020 20:24:30 GMT
Do you think it is nature vs nurture on what we like to eat or don't like to eat when it comes to fruits and vegetables or perhaps what we have or have not had in the past?
For years I would not eat guava...hated the smell...finally tried it and though...hmphhh.
I made jam from it and now it is my husband's favorite jam as he says it has the odor he likes and tastes like honey. (I disagree but...glad he likes it)
I didn't like corn after shucking some and finding a worm
Again..heading to bed now but might revisit this information in the morning as I do believe that there is interesting information we can use to glean out why...we eat...as...we do.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 23, 2020 23:46:37 GMT
cathygeha, I have a situation I've had all my life where I don't want to try new foods. I'm really bad at this and my husband teases me about it. While reading your list of greens I could feel myself tensing up because they were mostly all new to me. Growing up we mostly had canned veggies and we hardly if ever tried new foods or recipes. My dad and my sister liked trying new and different foods but Mom and I stuck to foods we knew. Sometimes I'll try a new food for me and it won't repulse me and be okay but I still won't eat it on a regular basis. Over the recent years I did try goat cheese, mangoes, mushrooms and now eat them.
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Post by lani on Apr 24, 2020 1:55:46 GMT
cathygeha, my mom and both grandmothers were fantastic cooks, so I think that made me more adventurous with trying new things. So many positive experiences, you know. Other than the canned vegetables in Minn. But I forgot, we would go to my "grandma on the farm" (my mom's mom) and eat berries off the bush and pick peas and shell and eat them on the spot. So there were positive produce experiences after all. Also, my parents never made me eat anything I didn't like, so there was never any drama around food. Now as an adult, I look for foods I've never had before and am eager to try everything at least once.
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Post by cathygeha on Apr 24, 2020 5:14:47 GMT
cathygeha , I have a situation I've had all my life where I don't want to try new foods. I'm really bad at this and my husband teases me about it. While reading your list of greens I could feel myself tensing up because they were mostly all new to me. Growing up we mostly had canned veggies and we hardly if ever tried new foods or recipes. My dad and my sister liked trying new and different foods but Mom and I stuck to foods we knew. Sometimes I'll try a new food for me and it won't repulse me and be okay but I still won't eat it on a regular basis. Over the recent years I did try goat cheese, mangoes, mushrooms and now eat them.
My father was not one to like vegetables except corn on the cob and perhaps some lettuce or vegetables in a soup or two. If he had vegetables they needed to come from a can.
My mother grew up on a farm and liked fresh vegetables and was always interested in trying new produce.
I understand where you are...I didn't like onions, garlic, brussels sprouts and many others. I did try guava (didn't like the odor) this year and made tasty jam from it. I am 68...still learning. I don't like shell fish and many other foods...ah well...more for others, right?
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Post by cathygeha on Apr 24, 2020 5:16:22 GMT
cathygeha , my mom and both grandmothers were fantastic cooks, so I think that made me more adventurous with trying new things. So many positive experiences, you know. Other than the canned vegetables in Minn. But I forgot, we would go to my "grandma on the farm" (my mom's mom) and eat berries off the bush and pick peas and shell and eat them on the spot. So there were positive produce experiences after all. Also, my parents never made me eat anything I didn't like, so there was never any drama around food. Now as an adult, I look for foods I've never had before and am eager to try everything at least once. See what I wrote above on canned versus fresh. How marvelous to have a grandmother with produce for you to try. My father and I got into it one evening when I was in high school. Mom had made brussels sprouts and I refused to eat them. We had a standoff till I had one whole one...felt like it took hours and am sure dad had better things to do. I like them if fresh now but tinned are terrible! |
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Post by luvvinlife on Apr 24, 2020 13:25:09 GMT
As a child the only vegetables I couldnât stomach were cooked tomatoes and canned asparagus. All of our vegetables except for salad fixings were canned. When I married my mother-in-law taught me how to shop for and cook fresh vegetables. 25 years later I attended ICE with hopes of becoming a caterer or personal chef. There I learned so many different ways to use vegetables that I fell in love with all of the vegetables that I thought I didnât like. I made my children at least taste everything on their plates to get to know new foods. I found myself telling them the same thing my mom told me. âYou canât say you donât like what youâve never tastedâ. My daughter doesnât like vegetables. My son loves them. So I think itâs both nature and nurture cathygeha,đ |
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