Domestic goddess rating: 0% (lovely sunny afternoon being entertained by a real domestic goddess – aka my old and much-loved friend C) Five-a-day: 4/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, marmalade and juice (breakfast); lasagne and salad (lunch – thanks C); cobbled-together leftovers on late return home (supper)
I had a brainwave that might just solve the fruit shortage problem. What about dried fruit? After all that’s how they would have preserved fruit to keep you going over the winter pre-multinational global conglomerates.
The conversation with Princess the Younger went something like this:
me: You know those dried apricots we sometimes get from the shops? And raisins?
Princess the Younger: [looking at me suspiciously] Yeee-eess?
me: What about eating those instead of apples?
PtY: [now with horrified expression on face] Yeeuch!
me: Well, you can get dried apples too, you know.
PtY: Dried apples?
me: Yes, they’re just like real apples only they’re dried [particularly intellectual and persuasive argument there, I thought.]
PtY: But why?
me: umm… so that you can eat them when real apples aren’t growing.
PtY: What do they taste like?
me: Well – just like real apples, really. Only a bit chewy.
PtY: [habitual suspicious expression returning] Chewy?
me: Yes. A bit like toffee.
PtY: They taste like toffee?
me: [now lying through my teeth in desperate attempt to win upper hand] Yes!
PtY: OK, let’s get some!
So – now all I have to do is find some dried apples, and the princess will have her cravings satisfied. I just have to hope she’ll realise she likes them before it occurs to her that there is absolutely no relationship whatsoever between dried apples and toffees.
Filed under: Seasonal eating, healthy eating | Tagged: dried apples, dried apricots, dried fruit, feeding children, fruit
