There is nothing sweet about lemons, they leave a sour taste in one’s mouth.
This fact in no way makes me bitter. I could never resent the lingering zest of flavor that lemons leave behind.
Nothing can duplicate the distinct taste of a lemon.
The citrus burst of tanginess is soothing and refreshing to the body.
Lemon in water, lemon drizzled over food, lemon brewed in tea, lemon transformed into my favorite drink- lemonade!
Thank goodness for the Berry family. They all contribute vital benefits that help sustain us naturally.
I am not crazy about raspberries though I can tolerate the taste of them when I eat them. They are not one of my favorites as far as taste, but I love them extracted in juice or recipes.
I absolutely love the raw taste of blackberries as well as Blueberries and strawberries.
Cranberries are too tart for me to eat within their natural state, I prefer the pure bitter juice.
These exceptional berries, including the ones I have not mentioned, have an array of wholesome healing purposes.
I did not care for strawberries as a youngster. It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I came to love them.
Strawberries are delicious, they are extremely healthy.
The fruit carries properties that boost our cardiovascular health and that stimulate our immune systems.
Strawberries are a powerful antioxidant that works as an anti-inflammatory.
I prefer to eat strawberries within their natural state instead of in desserts except for in non-dairy yogurt alternatives and fruit drinks or smoothies.
The Lord knows that I love watermelon. I love biting into a firm, crunchy apple, and I love a cold, juicy orange.
I love cherries, grapes, plums, pears, peaches, honeydew melon- and more!
Nevertheless, my all-time favorite fruit are fresh pineapples! I love to drink pineapple juice too but my favorite fruit juice of all time is lemonade!
I eat every part of the pineapple flesh, including the hard middle which is the core.
I ate fresh pineapples constantly as a teen. I still eat them now when they are properly ripe.
I would eat chunks of cut-out pineapple while my lips and tongue were sometimes cut and bled by the inside sharp parts of the pineapple. I did not care one bit. I kept on eating away!
Not only are pineapples delicious they are extremely nutritious with fiber and bromelain.
Of course, fiber keeps our digestive system healthy and bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme mixture that digests protein. It is derived from the juice, stem, and fruit of the pineapple.
Bromelain properties are that of an anticoagulant as it helps to clot our blood.
Pineapples are also high in vitamin C. They have vitamin K, vitamin E, vitamin B6 and vitamin A
I had some fresh organic pears yesterday. I bought them last week. Six came in a bag. I ate five since one had fell to the floor.
They were firm, crunchy, and delicious. I had not eaten any pears in a very long time. So long I can’t even remember. I love pears, they were the brown ones with tint of green.
I always buy and keep fresh fruit, especially apples, cherry tomatoes, oranges, tangerines, carrots and bananas.
Pears are highly nutritious they are rich in dietary fiber, plant compounds, and essential nutrients! This favorite snack of mine is also said to be able to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes when consumed regularly in a well-balanced diet.
Most fresh fruit and vegetables are excellent at combating and preventing many health issues anyhow.
I never liked pickle chips in any type of burger or sandwich or alone for that matter, but I always loved kosher dill pickle spears by themselves.
They were also so good to eat on the side while eating a hero sandwich; crispy potato chips always went well with a sandwich too.
Anyhow, over the weekend, my mother opened up a jar of pickles that I had bought from my local stop & shop a few weeks ago. They’d been inside the refrigerator all of this time nice and cold.
I found these particular pickles in the vegan/organic aisle of the supermarket and I could tell by the packaging and by the look of the pickles that they were of good quality. I wanted to pick up a jar for my mother also, yet there was only one jar of spears left. The others on the shelf were the pickle chips and my mother liked pickle chips but not to eat alone as a snack, so I was only able to purchase one jar of this specific brand. I just decided that my mother and I would share them.
This was my very first time ever buying these organic Woodstock brand and I must say that these kosher dill pickle spears were extremely delicious. I couldn’t stop eating them. I love them! These pickles are on the expensive side $6.99; however, they were well worth the money!
Since I was a child, I had always loved raw cucumbers. I use to go and pick our own home grown ripe cumbers from our backyard that my grandmother had planted, peel them, and sprinkle a little salt on them. Cucumbers/pickles are such a naturally healthy treat.
Here are the list of contents within the Woodstock brand:
Ingredients: Organic cucumbers, water, organic distilled vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, organic garlic chips, organic dill weed oil, organic gum arabic, organic natural spice flavors, xanthan gum.
I love apples, especially the yellow ones.
I love apples that are both sweet and tart I love biting into the juicy and crisp flesh of the fruit. I don’t like apples that are kind of soft, they’ve got to be firm.
The Red Delicious and the Granny smith variety are my favorites, McIntosh are okay but those other three are my specialties.
I was never a major pie eater as I never cared much for pie the only type of pie I would eat was homemade sweet potato growing up. My mother liked pies and when she tried pumpkin pie for the first time a few years back she told me it tasted similar to sweet potato pie yet it was even better. So she is now fond of pumpkin pie.
I never tried Pumpkin pie though I do love apple pie. Apple pie is my mother’s favorite among all the other pies she’s eaten also. My mother reminisced to me how in down south Virginia our family use to make some yummy apple pies from scratch with fresh granny smith green apples.
I use to eat apple pies frequently during my twenties, I loved biting and chewing into the crust of the pie as the whole entire parts of the pastry was so delicious, and I use to drink cold milk along with eating them.
There were certain types of pie that I didn’t like and didn’t want to eat I’d just nibble on the crust because I wasn’t fond of the fruity sections prepared within the pies. Apple pie was the only pie that I could delightfully stomach down, I guess it all depends on how a pie is crafted.
Applesauce was a dessert I’ve always eaten and enjoyed I also like it blended with cinnamon spice. I had purchased the Santa Cruz brand organic applesauce a few times in the past and the product was of very good quality. Applesauce tastes really good cold and it is a really healthy light food to snack on.
My mother fed me applesauce as a child just as I’m sure a lot of our parents have, and it is loved, and a favorite, among the young and the old. It is a pleasant option for those who have to eat pureed foods and a convenient way for some to help swallow a pill down with, or to mix powdered medicine into for a tolerable intake.
Apple juice, another treasure and extension to indulge in, is a drink we constantly keep in the house as the beverage is both nutritious and healing for the body.
What would we do if we didn’t have apples to incorporate into the various forms of our diets? I don’t even want to imagine a circumstance of that nature, not the way I love to eat apples, apple pie, applesauce, and drink apple juice.
If I loss my “apples” I’d probably end up in the “nut” house. Nevertheless, nuts are nutritious too.
I went and did a little grocery shopping this past week and purchased two bags of bananas by Dole and they were organic.
The bananas tasted so good and fresh. They were a little bit more expensive than the non organic bananas. I was aware Dole sold organic bananas yet I had never came across them within any of my local grocery stores.
As now the circumstance has changed and the bananas are available at one of my particular neighborhood supermarkets I’ll continue to buy and eat them.
Oh, the melon family. I like the honeydew and the cantaloupe, however, nothing compares to the watermelon, to me.
Watermelon is such an appropriate summer fruit, but all fruit is appropriate for the summer, and all year around too, when certain one’s are within their seasons.
I haven’t had any watermelon since earlier in the spring and it was so icy cold, tasty, and ripe.
Watermelon is also nutritious and is a natural diuretic.
I remember when my family use to buy whole fresh quality watermelons straight from the trucks in travel from down south. They use to be the best. Nowadays, anything could be low-grade off those particular trucks.
I never get tired of eating good watermelon I’m going to get me some real soon.
The local grocery where I go keeps the watermelon stacked on ice and I bring the melon home to store in the refrigerator to get further chilled to my likeness.
I usually slice the large fruit in half and eat it with a spoon, it’s less messy to eat it that way, and it is also a convenient approach or method.
Oh, I can’t wait to get my hands on some great mouth-watering watermelon!
The weather has finally begun to mimic summer temperatures lately here in Queens, New York and usually when it gets hot and humid I like to eat light.
The fruit I had bought came in handy during the weeks. I picked up these big and beautiful bag of oranges from my local Stop And Shop they were worth the $7.99 that I paid as they were flawless, sweet, and juicy. I ate the oranges ice cold. I left them in the refrigerator a few days before I began to consume them.
Along with them I had purchased some Granny Smith green apples which I also let get ice cold before eating.
Everything taste so good cold especially in the heat of the environment. When I was thirsting for something other than water I drank ice cold apple juice. All soothing and healthy to the body.
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