I LOVE fruit! I was turned onto a market called H&W about a year ago. The prices are amazing. Every time I walk out of the store I feel like yelling "start the car" just like that crazy lady in the Ikea commercial. The only problem is I'm the one driving.
I got a heaping bin of fruit and veggies for $22 bucks today (yes I realize the $ symbol and the word bucks is redundant but I think it deserves repeating). I think it's hard to eat healthy on a budget. A lot of junk foods are a lot cheaper than fresh produce. Typically the amount of food that I buy at H&W would run about $50-$60 in a regular grocery store and I've never spent more than $28 and can barely carry the bags they are so full. I'm just so glad that there is a place like this for people who want to eat healthy but need to stretch their grocery dollar.
I wash everything as soon as I get home. Just put everything in the sink, spray with a fruit and veggie wash, fill the sink with water, take the fruit out after soaking for a few minutes and set on a tea towel to dry then fill up the fruit bowl. I also make up a bowl of fruit salad typically with some melon, mango, kiwi, and throw in some canned oranges or pineapple or both. I like strawberries and watermelon but add those on a daily basis as they can get a bit too soggy by Friday. I take a bowl of that to work for a mid-morning snack. I peel carrots and wash other veggies and cut things up so that I can grab something healthy instead of something not so healthy. If it's ready it's a lot easier to stick to eating healthy. When it's not ready and you have to clean, cut and chop it is far easier to grab a handful of crackers, or chips (I know they all start with a c - I'm partial to the letter C) and I do have a huge weakness for chips. So much so, that I rarely buy them because I can't stop eating them. Fortunately (and please don't hate me) I've never had cravings for chocolate. I don't dislike chocolate but it's just not my go to for foods that one would crave. If I did crave something sweet, it would be butterscotch or caramel.
I hit the jackpot tonight. My daughter cooked dinner when she came home from work. She BBQ'd chicken and corn and served it with steamed veggies and salad. She is such a good cook, so much better than I was at her age. We often work out a deal where she does the cooking and I do the cleaning. I was (heavy emphasis on the 'was') the mom who cooked dinner every single night but as the kids got older and moved out, came back, worked shift jobs and weren't around to eat a meal I'd cooked, I got to the point where I stopped trying to plan meals and was quite content to figure out what I was going to eat when I got home. It's so much easier to cook for one because you don't feel obligated to put all the food groups on the table every single night. If I want a salad and a piece of toast, that's what I have. If I want cereal, I balance it later with ice-cream.... I'm nothing if not well balanced. I guess what I'm trying to say is I got tired of being the chief cook and bottle washer. I think if I hadn't had a break from it I would have just continued to do it, but once I got a taste of freedom there was no going back. It almost makes me want to stay single for the rest of my life. I almost mean that too.
Well I hope you find your bowl of cherries full to the brim this week. If you don't, just substitute other fruit. Contrary to the popular saying, life is not always a bowl of cherries, so make up your own mix!
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