Aug
12
I don’t like fruit.
This statement is shocking to me, because in my mind, I am a fruit-lover.
Yet, I can no longer deny my reality. Someway, somehow, over the course of these last few years, I’ve turned into a veggie-holic who all but shuns fruit.
Gasp.
I also do not like ice cream. But that’s a post for another year.
I’ve slowly, but surely, realized that whenever I serve my family fruit (grapes, apples, strawberries, peaches), I don’t touch it. I’ll choose squash casserole over peach pie. Red peppers over red raspberries. Veggie pizza over fruit pizza. Cauliflower w/ranch dip over pineapple w/marshmallowy cream cheese. Grilled zucchini over frozen grapes.
Anyway.
We spent Sunday after church at Gabe’s parents’ cabin. I ate cucumbers and onions, tomatoes with salt, homemade pickles, and a hamburger with garden-fresh tomatoes, onions, and lettuce. Heaven.
On Monday, I had more pickles, a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, more tomatoes w/salt, more cucumbers and onions, and a ham/salami sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes.
(I know tomatoes are technically a fruit. In my book, they’re a vegetable all the way.)
Today (Tuesday)–more, more, more veggies. No fruit.
My stomach hated me (stop the healthy! where’s the junk food?) on Sunday and Monday, but by Tuesday, it seemed to have adjusted nicely.
There is much more fresh, garden-y, vegetable goodness in my future for Wednesday.
I am very, very curious to know if you are a fruit-lover or a veggie-lover. Or maybe you love neither. Or both.
If you could only eat one or the other for the rest of your life, which would it be?
p.s. Doing a radio interview with a station in Santa Barbara, California tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Should be able to listen live at 7:45ish (ET) right here if you’re awake, bored, and have already had your quiet time. 
Fruit – but I would count both tomatoes and avacados as fruits in this case
I’d be a happy gal.
I recently thought about this and realized I LOVE FRUIT and veggies, not so much. I think I try to like veggies because it is the “hip” thing to be healthy, but besides broccoli, asparagus, artichoke, and fresh tomatoes, I really don’t like veggies especially pregnant, I have to make myself. I often feel a little guilty eating lunch with my more “healthy” friends that all order salads or the steam veggies instead of fries. I just can’t deny it anymore….I am Lisa Wadsworth and I don’t really like veggies. As with ice cream, not too much of a fan either but do like it every now and then, but it usually goes bad in the freezer. Bluebell ice cream is the best and I don’t know why we don’t get it here in Ohio.
I love fruit and veggies. Except zuchinni … yuck! But if I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life it would be french bread with butter. Seriously, that is my favorite.
Fruit, hands down. I LOVE berries (it’s the best part of summer!), apples in the fall, oranges in the winter. Mmmm, mmm! Pretty much the only fruit I don’t like are melons and cherries. Veggies are good, too, but I’m much pickier there.
Veggies. LOVE fruit…but if I had to pick, it would be veggies.
And I WISH I didn’t like ice cream…..it would save me alot of calories! LOL
Love, love, love both. Maybe, possibly, veggies have a slight advantage over fruit, but it’s not a big one.
LOVE cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, green and red peppers. LOVE strawberries, red raspberries, pears, and kiwi. I eat fruit to satisfy my sweet tooth, as well. Especially now that I’m pregnant. A pear is much better for me than a bag of jolly ranchers.
I must agree with you on the ice cream, though. Not a big fan. Sometimes, yes. Often, no. EXCEPT for Cold Stone’s cake batter ice cream. It doesn’t even count as ice cream. It’s in it’s own separate category.
I don’t like either one, but given the choice I’d pick fruit. I think…
I would definitely, DEFINITELY choose fruit. I could live the rest of my life without another vegetable. I eat them every day because I know that I am supposed to do that, and it’s a good example for my kids, and all that. However, I have too much of a sweet tooth to ever give up fruit entirely.
I can’t wait to hear more about your dislike of ice cream. I’m so disappointed that even exposure to Blue Bell could not sway your opinion.
I like both. Seriously. But if I had to choose one or the other forEVER (Why? WHY?) I would have to go with fruit. I think a lifetime without crunchy apples, tart raspberries, or juicy peaches sounds like misery.
I’m a fruit person. I’m learning to like veggies more, but I’ll take fruit or veggies any day!
Ooh, I do love fruit. I don’t mind some fresh lettuce or tomatoes on a sandwich or a salad once in a while, but yeah, if I could only choose one, it would be fruit all the way.
You eat the veggies, I’ll eat the fruit. Perfect.
I love the fruit but I do love tomatoes!! I also really like broccoli but if I had to pick between veggies or fruit… I would for sure pick fruit!! Watermelon and grapes are my favorite!!!
WHAT?!?! You don’t like ice cream?! Gasp……..
I’m definitely a fruit lover. I like veggies too but not nearly as much as I like fruit. But then again, give me a homemade garden salsa and I’d eat the whole bowl…alright so I’m all over the place