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When I was growing up my mother knew that the only way anyone was going to eat fruit was to have it already sliced and ready to eat. Each slice of watermelon, juicy and sweet. Each slice of cantaloupe melting in your mouth. If she did not slice it, the fruit would sit in the refrigerator until it rotted and had to be thrown out. So instead of wasting so much good food, she washed it and sliced it and everyone gobbled up every last bit of fruit. As a mother, I did the same thing and as you may have guessed, fruit disappears just as fast as I slice it.
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I would eat so much more fruit if someone would come into my kitchen and cut it up for me!
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Right?!?! That is like all of the famous fitness people. They talk about eating right and exercising every day. Well, if someone cooked for me I would eat very well and if my main job was staying in shape I could do that too but there is only so much time in a day.
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A slice of nature’s candy, so to speak! Lovely six.
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Thank you Lisa
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Well said. Definitely a good way to get everyone eating fruit by having it sliced bite-sized on a plate.
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The true fun of these Six Sentence Storys!
The time machine effect, as we cast our minds towards the past to check on our personal experience in the matter of fruit and childhood…and refrigerators.
lol, rather cruel, I must say, given the tendency of we participants to be totally about creating/remembering/re-forming images and memories…
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but…. but! what about bananas!?!? Surely the champagne of the fruit world (fruit domain? kingdom?) how quickly they lose their youthful gift when exposed to the world.
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Haha, what is that old saying? A peeled banana doesn’t last? Or did I make that one up on my own?
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Welcome to Six Sentence Stories, Christine!
Mom knew there was more than one way to skin a cat, lol. A surefire way to get takers is to do exactly that – slice it up, make it all pretty and above all, easy to eat.
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So I wasn’t the only one who grew up like this! I am finding out that many parents have done this, knowing if it is ready to eat, it will be eaten!
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Oh, yes. It was indeed a big thing when we would chill a watermelon and begin the slicing. All watermelon had to be eaten outdoors in a swimsuit, too, for ease of cleaning their sticky little selves after.
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And spitting the seeds! No fun picking them out appropriately.
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Mother always sliced fruit prior to putting it on the platter. I think as there were five children it was to make it stretch. HA.
We had plenty of food, but she wasn’t wasteful at all and knew what would make more sense.
Good six. Good use of the cue.
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Thank you. That is true, too. I have found that if I slice fruit there is less that gets thrown away.
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Better to have the good stuff at the ready than a bag of chips. Yum, melon!
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So true! My favorite time of year is when all of the picking seasons start. Raspberries are my absolute favorites. They say “no eating, just picking” and I am good about not taking advantage but they are so delicious I can never help indulging slightly!
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good six using the cue.
Mom always sliced fruit. I think it was to make it stretch . Five kids and all. Glad your sixing with us
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