How to Eat Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

With the coming of the fall season the fresh fruits and vegetables that are on the produce shelves will soon be gone. Enjoy the fruits while they are here, freeze some and enjoy them as a snack or dessert during the winter months. Bing cherries can be frozen, placed in plastic baggies and enjoyed all year long.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Cauliflower
• Broccoli
• Apples
• Pears
• Cherries

1. 
   Fruit stand

   Steam the cauliflower and broccoli after you wash them. Vegetables taste delicious when steamed. Add them to a pot roast, cut them and add them to a pot pie along with cut up carrots and potatoes. Enjoy the cauliflower and broccoli raw along with a onion dip along with potato chips and a glass of wine while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be ready.

2. 
   delicious apples

   Cut up red, green and yellow apples and serve on a platter of assorted hard cheeses as an appetizer at Christmas. This cheese and apple platter goes well with the fruit platter. Various platters set out on a buffet table will please fellow bridge players along with pitcher of fruit punch.

3. 

   Peel the skin off apples, slice and add to a fruit salad or dice the apple and add to oatmeal. Baked apples take a short time to prepare, and make wonderful desserts served warm, along sweet cream or ice cream on top.

4. 
   fruit salad

   Pears are usually bought hard and allowed to soften by putting them in a paper bag at room temperature. They usually take a few days to ripen. Enjoy them cut up and add them to the fruit salad, eat them alone as a healthy fruit or cut them, place them in a plastic bag and give it to the kids to eat during a long boring drive or as an afternoon snack.

Tips & Warnings

• All fruits are great when added to plain yogurt for a delicious taste.
• Stew the fruits and make a compote. Place in a jar and keep refrigerator.

[skinspecialist]

on 11/3/2009 Great tips and insights!

[grimsleygl]

on 9/25/2009 This is a great article for me. I'm eating less and less meat for some reason and loving those veggies and fruits. Thanks for sharing how to make hard apples softer. I did not know this and am always in search of the softer apples! 5*'s

[ourlastchance]

on 8/28/2009 I love to eat fruits and veggies. This is a great article.

[solidlady09]

on 8/23/2009 great article 5 stars and a recommend

[jhkcpa]

on 8/22/2009 Good info on how to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. 5*