September 03, 2006
Fruit Suggestion - to the dieter
In these meals we get fruit for ALMOST every meal. Many times Fresh fruit and there is an issue as to it's ripeness sometimes so.... My suggestion is this. When you pick up your food for the half-week, look thru the meals, and find the 'fresh fruit' in each.(pears, plums, pluots, NOT grapes, etc) REMOVE them from the packaging, and put them on your kitchen counter. Leave a note in each 'tub' that there WAS fruit in it... When it comes time to eat that meal, don't worry what fruit WAS in it, take the RIPEST fruit on the counter!
Pears:
Placing pears in a paper bag will help them ripen faster. Be sure to check them daily so they don't get overripe. You can also leave them out in a fruit bowl and enjoy their beauty as they ripen. Add apples or bananas to speed up the process. Place ripe pears in the refrigerator to slow further ripening. Once they are ripened, pears will generally keep in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days. Unripe fruit can generally be kept for a week or more, however, pears will not ripen properly inside the fridge.
It's got to be very difficult to ship fruit not knowing if it'll be ripe when we need to eat it PLUS some fruit ripens faster than others... so as long as we eat all the fruit in that week.. it doesn't seem to matter if we switch fruits!
Fruit Suggestion to Seattle Sutton: Maybe pears are too difficult to gauge the ripeness factor of... and my congratulations on the discovery of pluots... but plums are good too... and there are many different plums to choose from.
