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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up middle class in Midwest.  We ate a fair amount of fresh fruit.  Usually as snacks though and not a part of meals.  Fresh vegetables, not so much.  Our vegetable consumption was pretty limited to canned varieties with dinner or potatoes/corn.  Or and iceberg type salad with Hidden Valley ranch (sometimes the bacon flavored variety).

Fast forward to my life as an adult- UMC life.  My spouse was born and raised in Middle East.  He introduced me to a plethora of heathy foods: parsley, mint, pomegranates, non canned pineapple, bean varieties, so many leafy greens, different whole grains…I could go on and on.

For breakfast I always have a huge bowl of fresh berries with whatever else I eat, I always eat an apple with my lunch too. My kids have fresh fruit with breakfast and lunch every day too.  Snacks as well.  All of us eat a fresh vegetable with our lunch and dinner.  Dinner I usually roast the vegetables, but kids prefer them raw.  After dinner snacks are usually more fresh fruit or vegetables.

Our favorites:
Berries- all the berries
Apples- cosmic crisp are amazing
Pears
Banana
Pineapple 
Mangos 
Dates 
Stone fruits in summer 
Limes and lemons

Vegetables:
Celery
Carrots (whole are so much tastier than the baby ones)
Eggplant 
Brussels sprouts
Cauliflower 
Broccoli 
Purple and green cabbage
Parsley and mint salads
Arugula
Kale (kids go crazy for roasted crunchy kale)
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Sounds like a wonderful kitchen at your house. OP here. Last winter, my fruit obsession was pomegranates.I ate them every day and did not want the peeled seeds! Had to peel my own. Bough a whole huge pack from Costco several times.[/quote]

Yes!  We buy the whole ones at Costco too and it is my DHs job to peel them.  He is way more efficient at it since he grew up doing it [/quote]

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