A friend of mom's told us that she is on some type of meds that prevent her
from eating grapefruit. It does say right on her meds from the pharmacy not
to mix with grapefruit. As a result she gave us 8 gorgous grapefruit from
her neighbor's tree. Fresh picked juicy red grapefruit. I love them. About
the size of large orange so I can easily eat one for lunch. Small enough to
count as 1 point.

"Joyce" wrote in message
...
Ummmmm, I'm gonna take your word on this - even if I don't totally believe
it. I
am one that hates grapefruit, but loves mandarin oranges ... so think I
will stick
with the oranges. G

Also, be careful when making this substitution. We were totally unaware
until
reading several articles .. if you are on some blood pressure medications,
you
should not eat or drink anything with grapefruit. I seem to recall that
grapefruit makes the medications ineffective.

Joyce

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:36:39 -0600, "Miss Violette"

wrote:

I almost forgot, anything you make with mandarin oranges can be
substituted
with grapefruit, is very different but usually tastes as good or better,
Lee
Lesanne wrote in message
...
I have all this grapefruit from DD's trees. This area has some of the
sweetest grapefruit in the world when it is left to tree ripe. So I am
thinking, how can I use some of that in lunch? Had leftover garden
salad
(a
bunch with all kinds of interesting greens) from yesterday. Also left
over
kernel corn, black olives and some nice sliced honey roasted almonds.
I
had
some atlantic salmon filets in the freezer. I thawed those, mixed up a
dressing of brown rice vinegar, soy sauce, a little peanut oil, a
little
sesame oil, some brown sugar, and splenda. Made a marinade of sugar,
splenda, soy sauce and allspice and plopped the salmon in there. Added
a
sprinkle of sesame oil to that too. Fired up the George. peeled and
sectioned a grapefruit and the juice that dripped off that I added to
the
dressing. Grilled the salmon, put the salad on a plate, added the
grilled
salmon on top and the sectioned grapefruit and dressing. Oh My Yum
City.
This one is a keeper.!