Comments on: “Berries, berries, the magical fruit…”

By: Metroknow

Metroknow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:38:19 +0000

@Tina: Thanks for the kind words, although I’m not sure if “cute post” is good or bad…

@Cynthia: Hey there Cynthia! One of my early childhood memories is walking down the road with my uncles (they were about 6 and 8 years older than me), picking berries of all kinds, and then eating them when we got back in a bowl of milk. There may have also been a bit of sugar involved.

@Debs: Thanks – Yep, he has a gift I think. Well, many gifts now that I think about it. I also checked your site out, and it looks excellent. Thanks for stopping in!

By: Debs

Debs — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:27:55 +0000

Nice site! Your son clearly knows the best way to eat raspberries: off your fingers. I strongly agree about the responsibility of introducing kids to good foods. Berries are great for that, for sure. Debs Food Is Love

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:11:04 +0000

Hmmm, I grew up liking my veggies and my fruits… never a problem there. It was the proteins that were always \”suspicious\”. I especially hated meat fats and chicken skin. And still do. Seafood/fish was my protein of choice.

I remember picking huckleberries with my granddad and eating them with cream. I remember picking figs on my other set of grandparent\’s farms. We ate them on our processed cereal, LOL! We picked pecans from my grandfather\’s pecan orchard… the ones on the ground that the regular pickers didn\’t get. He didn\’t like waste.

Still berry picking today… my neighbor lets me pick what raspberries grow over the fence on my side. I don\’t get many, but I enjoy every bite!

For a while, while I was living in CA… I had a landlady and she had an apple tree, a red plum (red on the inside plum, those are the BEST) and a tangerine tree. I loved that! But then she cut down the apple tree and cut down the plum and pruned the poor tangerine tree back so far it took it several years to recover again. Sigh. Some folks just don\’t appreciate what they got.

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:14:07 +0000

What a great blog! So glad that I found it!

Cute post too! Totally agree with you!

By: Metroknow

Metroknow — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:38:39 +0000

@KathyR: Wow now there is a combination of tastes for a child you don’t hear every day. I didn’t like most vegetables until adulthood – not the other way around!

@Shelley: Thanks for your kind words. I did indeed swing over to benaturallywell.com and add Almost Fit. Looks like you have a good thing going on there!

By: shelley

shelley — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:53:14 +0000

This is a wonderful post. The children are perfect and adorable. There is nothing more wonderful in the world then to see a child in a garden! Thank you for the memories (mom of teens! ) and the berry good reminders!

Your blog is wonderful. I know my readers would think so too. Would you consider adding your blog to the Be Naturally well community so more health conscious bloggers and readers can find you easily? Here’s the link http://www.benaturallywell.com/blog/add-your-blog/

Many blessings, and thanks for the inspiration!
Shelley

By: KathyR

KathyR — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:44:19 +0000

My kid is a fruit-hater. He hates fruit (except melons) and anything fruit-flavored.

He would rather eat a bowl of broccoli than a bowl of berries. He likes asparagus. He won’t eat an apple.

So I did something right. But can’t figure out where I went wrong.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:09:57 +0000

Hey Jeremy, I agree with you bro. Berries can serve a bridge to help kids eat more fruit; I’m no kid but I love berries! Well, I’ll always try to remain “a kid at heart.” Eating berries is smart choice, enjoy them with a small snack of ice cream or yogurt.

By: Metroknow

Metroknow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:51:17 +0000

@FBG: Hey there! My wife is the same way – she grew up eating fresh vegetables from their garden (they couldn’t afford much else), and now their treats as a family are things like Mom’s swiss chard, or an artichoke shared. I think it really can have a positive impact!

@DR: Wow that is interesting – I didn’t realize that. We really enjoy going to the farm, although with gas on the rise I do think about the value. But when we go we really try to make it count – 30 lbs of berries divided by a gallon and a half of gas…

@Christine: Hi Christine! You’re back (as your new post says) – beyond the non-Ram Tough truck it sounds like it was a good trip. On limiting the kids/fiber , we have the same challenge. Jonah LOVES to eat as many as he picks, so we have to watch him because he often picks the greener berries, and the sourness leads to, what he calls, a “stumuckegg”. Good to hear from ya!

@Tom: Hey there Tom – I know exactly what you mean about apples and peaches. Both got a really bad reputation with me as a child because a) the canned peaches always tasted sweet (wow corn syrup packed – go figure), and b) the ones that had been trucked in were often really mealy and dry. Here we have an area called the Fruit Loop up near Mt. Hood that apparently has a lot more fruits like stone fruits, etc. – so we’re planning a trip out there soon too.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:26:17 +0000

I feel like my sisters and I were relatively lucky when it comes to eating fresh vegetables and especially fruit. My mom grew up in a house where they grew a bunch of their own produce and ate a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. Fortunately, we now live right next to a large plot of apple orchards, where they grow a variety of other fruits and vegetables. We did exactly like you did except we would pick apples and peaches. Nothing is better than a freshly picked, ripe peach. As a kid though, I know exactly what you mean when you talk about the fruit not being the same every time. It took me a while to get over that, and to eat the fruit all the time like we do now.