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Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X-
mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. I think she can manage to week the kiwi, apples, and oranges in time but I guess I will have to take the bananas over to a neighbor. At least they didn't send chocolate or other candy. Actually, I have no compunction to throw candy away though. After Halloween, I had to purge my daughter's candy bag of all the sweet tarts, sour this and sour that, and just leave a few pieces of chocolate. That's really all she likes anyway. The rest went straight to the trash were it couldn't hurt anyone. A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. Parents tend to eat the food their children have left, often while standing at the sink. Since that wasn't really their food to begin with, they conveniently forget those calories. Of course just having food in front of you is a kind of temptation, so for many it might be a good idea to get the excess food out of the house. Dkw |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:52:15 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. ****, you throw out egg yolks on a daily basis...what's the problem with tossing $2 worth of bananas? snip A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. I'd use this kind of situation as an excuse to make banana bread. Jo Anne |
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On 18 déc, 23:11, Jo Anne wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:52:15 -0800 (PST), " wrote: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. ****, you throw out egg yolks on a daily basis...what's the problem with tossing $2 worth of bananas? snip A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. I'd use this kind of situation as an excuse to make banana bread. Jo Anne Please email me a banana cake!! |
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On 18 déc, 21:52, " wrote:
Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. I think she can manage to week the kiwi, apples, and oranges in time but I guess I will have to take the bananas over to a neighbor. At least they didn't send chocolate or other candy. Actually, I have no compunction to throw candy away though. After Halloween, I had to purge my daughter's candy bag of all the sweet tarts, sour this and sour that, and just leave a few pieces of chocolate. That's really all she likes anyway. The rest went straight to the trash were it couldn't hurt anyone. A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. Parents tend to eat the food their children have left, often while standing at the sink. Since that wasn't really their food to begin with, they conveniently forget those calories. Of course just having food in front of you is a kind of temptation, so for many it might be a good idea to get the excess food out of the house. Dkw Easy. Offer the bananas to a owner of a monkey in your neighborhood! You'll make a friend -the monkey- by the same token! |
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On Dec 18, 7:11 pm, Jo Anne wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:52:15 -0800 (PST), " wrote: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. ****, you throw out egg yolks on a daily basis...what's the problem with tossing $2 worth of bananas? snip A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. I'd use this kind of situation as an excuse to make banana bread. Jo Anne Well, the difference is that I don't think of egg yolks as healthy food, but bananas in moderation are. Banana BREAD is a different manner. It's really banana cake of course. I would and do throw out pretty much any non-diet food that finds its way into the house usually as a gift. Subtle difference I know, unless a person is serious about weight control, in which case they don't want fattening or nonhealthy foods even around them. |
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On Dec 18, 7:57 pm, "
wrote: On 18 déc, 23:11, Jo Anne wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:52:15 -0800 (PST), " wrote: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. ****, you throw out egg yolks on a daily basis...what's the problem with tossing $2 worth of bananas? snip A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. I'd use this kind of situation as an excuse to make banana bread. Jo Anne Please email me a banana cake!!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Banana bread/cake made from overripe bananas is hard to beat, but I'm afraid just having that delicious warm, sweet banana (and pecan) smell in my house would tip me over the edge irretrievably into the vast abyss of porkiness. |
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On Dec 19, 4:26 am, " wrote:
On Dec 18, 7:11 pm, Jo Anne wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:52:15 -0800 (PST), " wrote: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. ****, you throw out egg yolks on a daily basis...what's the problem with tossing $2 worth of bananas? snip A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. I'd use this kind of situation as an excuse to make banana bread. Jo Anne Well, the difference is that I don't think of egg yolks as healthy food, but bananas in moderation are. Banana BREAD is a different manner. It's really banana cake of course. I would and do throw out pretty much any non-diet food that finds its way into the house usually as a gift. Subtle difference I know, unless a person is serious about weight control, in which case they don't want fattening or nonhealthy foods even around them.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How about putting it in the kid's cereal? Or make a healthy smoothie out of it? Or PB and banana sandwich? Those are the ones I could think off off the top of my head at this time in the morning. I would, however, advise you to go to either epicurious or allrecipes and do a query for recipes that has bananas in it that the kid would like. All else fails, I would donate it to your local food bank for this Christmas. (Not the store with the bins, but like actually a soups kitchen type of place.) They would love your food donation! Cheers, J |
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m: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. .... I'm having a very faint memory of some fruits which can be frozen in chuncks (peel and cut into pieces) and eaten as some kind of popsicles. I *think bananas was included in that category. Lisbeth. ---- The day I don't learn anything new is the day I die. *What we know is not nearly as interesting as *how we know it. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Dec 19, 7:13 am, jazzpants wrote:
On Dec 19, 4:26 am, " wrote: On Dec 18, 7:11 pm, Jo Anne wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:52:15 -0800 (PST), " wrote: Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan. ****, you throw out egg yolks on a daily basis...what's the problem with tossing $2 worth of bananas? snip A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to overeat. I'd use this kind of situation as an excuse to make banana bread. Jo Anne Well, the difference is that I don't think of egg yolks as healthy food, but bananas in moderation are. Banana BREAD is a different manner. It's really banana cake of course. I would and do throw out pretty much any non-diet food that finds its way into the house usually as a gift. Subtle difference I know, unless a person is serious about weight control, in which case they don't want fattening or nonhealthy foods even around them.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How about putting it in the kid's cereal? Or make a healthy smoothie out of it? Or PB and banana sandwich? Those are the ones I could think off off the top of my head at this time in the morning. I would, however, advise you to go to either epicurious or allrecipes and do a query for recipes that has bananas in it that the kid would like. All else fails, I would donate it to your local food bank for this Christmas. (Not the store with the bins, but like actually a soups kitchen type of place.) They would love your food donation! Cheers, J- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks. All good ideas and I do put banana on her oatmeal, but that's one half banana a day and I have about 20 of the things. Problem solved. I gave most to a neighbor with 5 kids. dkw |
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... Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X- mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still green, but will all ripen about the same day. Cover them in chocolate and keep them in the freezer!! Can you freeze peeled bananas for later use? They probably wouldn't be great for eating on putting on cold cereal, but you could maybe thaw them and use them in hot cereal like oatmeal. Whenever I add banana to my oatmeal I usually mash it up and stir it in rather than cutting it into chunks. -- Liz |
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