Posted by kathryn in Blogging, Fruit, Vegetables and Ethics & Sustainablity

Half of me posts about the “adventures of a woman who once weighed 372 pounds but amazingly enough had not eaten every food on the planet. She’s going to change that, and she’s starting in the produce section.” Read more in her Lick the Produce section. The truth about women, hormones and weight gain: as Paula Goodyer writes “while hormones can sometimes be a factor in weight gain, for the overwhelming majority of us they’re not usually the primary cause.” …

Read more 06 July, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Desserts and Recipes

Coming from the UK most of my family Christmas traditions revolve around turkey, roast potatoes, gravy, Christmas pudding, fruit cake, mince pies – heavy, heavy foods that we only eat once per year. A more recent tradition for me though, is panettone.Since moving out of home I’ve always lived in the inner west of Sydney, surrounded by a large proportion of Sydney’s Italian community, as well as Italian delis, cafes, foods, restaurants and so on. At this time of …

Read more 30 November, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

I’ve been pulled up on my last two posts in Q & A Thursday: * Are tomatoes part of your fruit or vegetable intake * Is fruit really important to a healthy diet? As Meg and Joanne have both commented there are other “vegetables” that are actually “fruits”. How do these fit into the whole fruit vs vegetables debate?. Hmm, I wasn’t counting on botany being used against me! Okay, it’s true I’ve over-simplified the message – something we …

Read more 18 October, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Vegetables and Dinners

It’s been a light blogging week for me. My attention has been taken up by our new Balance2health clinic website. It’s nearly, nearly ready and should be fully functioning next week. Which means I’ll have that bit of spare time back, which I need for blogging. In the meantime – here’s the usual Friday Quicklinks. * Re-gaining weight: Short piece at Weighty Matters on why Oprah regained her weight. We don’t usually talk celebrities and gossip here at Limes …

Read more 12 December, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Soups

• Eating more fruit: It’s a topic I’ve been writing about this week. Veggie Chic also has a useful post on 3 easy steps to eating more fruit. I particularly like the suggestion to find your own best time to eat fruit. Jul says “eating fruit when I’m at my hungriest makes me enjoy it more”. * How to change eating habits: Rudd Sound Bites asks why isn’t education enough to change eating habits?. There’s also an interesting discussion …

Read more 19 October, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

The next post in Q & A Thursday partners the previous question: can you count tomatoes as part of your daily fruit allowance? Despite primarily being used as a savoury ingredient, tomatoes are actually a fruit. Botanically they’re the ovary and seeds of a flowering plant, the classification of a fruit. Tomatoes are therefore nutritionally flexible. You can count them as one of your vegetable serves or as part of your fruit intake. Tomatoes contain vitamin C and many …

Read more 18 October, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Having already talked about watermelon and it being a fruit high in lycopene (although it’s usefulness to us is questionable – see the update post here), I just could not resist this. News from the UK about square watermelons – yep you heard it, instead of being the usual spherical shape, these watermelons have clear boxes placed around them while they grow, so they end up as cubes. They were first grown for the Japanese market because they can be …

Read more 14 August, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Dinners

• I’m becoming a fan of Half of Me’s regular Lick The Produce section. I’ve linked to it before – hoping to inspire the vegie- and fruit-phobics out there. In this episode she tries mango, kiwi fruit and purple cauliflower for the first time. * The Guardian blog asks if you’re vegetarian and have given up meat then why do you eat so many meat-substitutes_? The post is beautifully titled Hard-core Quornquorn.html. * Those of you following the "31 Days …

Read more 20 August, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

If fruit is still a problem for you, then why not: * make smoothies – put some berries in a blender with milk, yoghurt and ice and then whizz together * make a fabulous fruit salad – cardamon citrus fruit salad , summer fruit compote , or what about a dried fruit salad ? * use in salads, like a smashed green olive&grapefruit salad , or roasted beetroot salad with blueberry vinaigrette * if you get the 3 o’clock sugar …

Read more 25 September, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Nice writing from Guardedly Optimistic: a risk vs reward analysis of . . . fruit. Thanks to At My Table for pointing to this post. Photo by Hdy under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

Read more 14 April, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Are bananas the new flowers, asks the Sydney Morning Herald Good Living section this week? Since tropical cyclone Larry flattened about 90% of Australia’s commercial banana crop, the price has been going up and up. In supermarkets they’re about $13.99 per kilo, which makes one individual banana about $3.15 – wow! Up until now bananas have been Australia’s favourite fruit and also in the top ten overall grocery items. The Good Living article also includes a banana price watch, showing …

Read more 14 June, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

I’ve seen bananas selling for $9.99 in two different locations this week. While a year ago it would be madness to regard this as “cheap”, it’s significantly better than the $14.99 prices we’ve been seeing over the last few months. Following the havoc caused by Tropical Cyclone Larry in March, early predictions were that banana supply would be restored by September of this year. However wet weather in north Queensland, particularly around Tully and Innisfail, delayed the planting of new …

Read more 21 November, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Nutrition

As you know, I love lycopene, heck I even named my blog after it, so of course I have to report on any lycopene discoveries or trivia that are out there. I read today that, according to the US Department of Agriculture, the lycopene content of watermelon is significantly increased if it’s stored at room temperature, by as much as 40%, so it’s a big difference. Personally, I love my watermelon straight from the fridge, on a hot, hot day, …

Read more 10 August, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Spring

Reports today on the ABC confirm that about 50% of Goulburn Valley’s fruit crops were destroyed in frosts on Sunday night, primarily apricots and pears. Cherries and stone fruit in the Warby Ranges have also been affected, Steve Bracks, the Victorian Premier announced there will be $4.9 million for frost and drought affected farmers. And of course, it’s not just the farmers themselves affected, all the other workers and businesses that rely on the fruit harvest, have also been hit. …

Read more 29 September, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Spring

While stonefruit may be a problem this year, it seems the Northern Territory (NT) is heading for a bumper mango crop. Estimates are they will send 2.5 million trays to market. Given that melons and mangoes will be in peak season at the same time, according to the ABC, there may be a shortage of the refrigerated trucks used to transport the mangoes down to Sydney (oh yes and other places too). In fact, growers may be forced to send …

Read more 04 October, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

The recent heavy rainfall around Australia has been a wonderful for most farmers. Dams are filling, rivers are running again and the big picture is looking good. However, in the short term, the wet and unusually cold temperatures, mean most produce is growing very slowly. Over the next three to four weeks there will be short supplies and hence rising prices. In about a month’s time the situation should improve considerably and an increase in available produce will drive prices …

Read more 02 July, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Some good advice from Choice on juices for babies. Golden Circle, Heinz and Just Juice have started selling specific Baby Juice. Despite the packaging and marketing, they’re nothing extraordinary, but are simply watered down to better suit the baby’s digestive system. The choice advice includes: * Always dilute it for your child – about one part of juice to one or two parts of water gets the sugars down to a level they can manage. * Never give juice or …

Read more 31 March, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

The first reader question in this week’s Q & A Thursday is from Joanne: bq. How much truth is there to the common idea that fruits and vegetables begin to lose some nutrition value after being cut up? For example, if I cut up fruits and vegetables and carried them around in a lunch box for a few hours before eating them? What if they sat in the fridge for more than a day, cut up? The best study on …

Read more 26 July, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Desserts, Eggs and Recipes

I grew up in the UK in the 70s and 80s, a time way before Jamie, Nigella, Gary, Ainslie, Rick, Gordon et al started redefining British food. This was the time of roast dinners, semolina pudding, Victoria sponges, steak and kidney pie, toad in the hole, gammon and pineapple. A time when kedgeree was exotic, pasta was a weird “foreign” meal and Angel Delight was considered sophisticated. In talking to my mum about the spices she used when I …

Read more 16 October, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

I picked up some daisy mandarins this week. So far my local shops have been full of Imperials, but I loved the look of these – compact, tight skin and an intense red-orange colour. You can see the contrast in colour in this photo – an Imperial mandarin is top right-hand corner. They’re a new-ish hybrid mandarin, originally developed in the US and grown in Australia since the late 1990s. And, most importantly, they are delicious – easy to …

Read more 14 June, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Baking and Recipes

I’ve had a lot of deadlines recently, which has made it hard to blog with my usual regularity. I’ve been writing articles, recipes, sending out newsletters and finalising details of a new monthly column. In amongst this I’ve been seeing clients and been putting together two new seminars at the clinic. On top of that, Richard and I are beavering away on a new project. It’s very exciting, but not due for release until later in the year, so more …

Read more 07 March, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

This week I’ve eaten my first peach and mango of the season. Stood over the sink, with sweet, luscious juices drizzling down my chin. Two moments. Pure, meditative, pleasure. And while I ate them I thought how wondrous the flavour of fruit could be. I love seasons. Mangoes and lychees are my absolute favourite fruits, but I don’t want to eat them all year round. For me, that seems boring. Instead I want to miss foods. I want to …

Read more 01 November, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

I’ve talked about the importance of fruit before, on many occasions. It’s full of fibre, vitamins and antioxidants – all of which are important for your energy levels. However many people seem to just forget about it. Therefore, today’s task in 31 Days to Better Energy is to eat two pieces of fruit. h3. What fruit should you eat? All fruit is good, so eat what you like. I don’t see any point in being a nutritional martyr and forcing …

Read more 05 August, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Vegetables, Fats & oils and Nutrition

We eat food for many reasons: to keep us alive; for energy; for comfort and reassurance; as part of interacting with friends and family; because we enjoy it. However we also eat food because it provides us with nutrients. The old adage ‘we are what we eat’ is true, food supplies us with the building blocks that make up our bodies, as well as the fuel to run it and the ability to make the enzymes that catalyse the biochemical …

Read more 17 June, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Labels & advertising, Fruit and Junk Food

Fruit Roll-ups are flat strips of sticky, violently coloured, chewy stuff. They’re sweet, but don’t really look, smell or taste like fruit. Roll-ups are heavily marketed to both kids and parents as a tasty snack, made of real fruit and therefore a good alternative to packing a piece of fruit in lunch-boxes. However, as I’ve said before, you really can’t believe everything food manufacturers tell you and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has just rapped Uncle Toby’s on …

Read more 22 September, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Given the horrendous price of bananas in Australia following tropical cyclone Larry, Chris&Craig at Triple J have decided to sell a banana on ebay – bids are currently up to $275! (All money is going to SIDs). For those not quite up to that budget, banana prices are set to climb even more over the next few weeks as the weather cools in Coffs Harbour. Yep they’re going higher than the current $13 – $15 per kilo. However prices should …

Read more 19 July, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Labels & advertising, Myths and Fruit

Potato chips are a better snack than biscuits I saw the report of this misconception in the weekend herald – because they’re made from a vegetable, potato chips are a better snack. While biscuits are in now way an ideal snack, potato chips are worse. They’re chock-a-block full of fat, with a 50g packet containing about 15g of fat and just over 1,000 kJ. Most plain biscuits are lower than this, a fat free yoghurt is about 400kJ, while …

Read more 18 July, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Today’s task in 31 Days to a Better Diet is aimed at encouraging you to eat more fruit. A common complaint from clients is they buy fruit each week, only to throw it out seven days later, uneaten and well past it’s prime. Often on further questionning it becomes apparent the problem is they are uying fruit they don’t particularly like. Apples, oranges, pears when good quality, ripe and in season are wonderful. Sweet, juicy and glorious tasting. Unfortunately …

Read more 24 August, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

Time for my monthly round-up of what’s in season here in Sydney. The big price rises that occurred in July are starting to settle down, although a lot of fruit and veg are still more exy than usual. Next month we’ll be in Spring, so the fruit and veg selection should start expanding. You can track the latest list of seasonal fruit and vegetables in Sydney, by watching the what’s in season category. h3. Fruit * Apples * Cumquats …

Read more 03 August, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Vegetables and Fruit

Many parents struggle to get their children to eat vegetables. Whenever I talk to parents about kid’s nutrition, it’s the primary question everyone wants an answer to. A report today in the Good Living section of the SMH suggests a system of rewards and prizes. During August the Sydney Market’s Fresh for Kids programme trialled a campaign in NSW, ACT and Queensland. Called get on board and win *the trial resulted in a 97% increase in the amount of …

Read more 10 October, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Another reader has asked about fruit: how much is too much and can eating fruit increase your risk of diabetes? h3. How much fruit should you eat? Here in Australia the dietary guidelines recommend two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every day. Both are important to your health as they provide vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants. While fruit and vegetables are rich in nutrients, fruit also contains more kilojoules. So eating more than two serves of …

Read more 03 July, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Blogging and Fruit

My first guest post is up on Diet-Blog. For once, I didn’t write about vegetables or even beetroot. In fact, the post is all about apples. We often forget about this fruit, but it’s a nutritional wonder. So take a look at my post don’t forget the humble apple. Thanks to Jim at Diet-Blog for inviting me to write for them and welcome to all Diet-Blog readers. For more info on Limes & Lycopene click here. "Photograph by Jan …

Read more 21 September, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Summer and Vegetables

Summer produce is almost in full swing. Berries, cherries, peaches and nectarines are available and coming down in price. Asparagus is particularly good, as are eggplants at the moment. Enjoy the beginnings of summer here in Sydney. h3. Fruit * Apricots * Bananas * Berries – the berry season is coming into full swing. I bought three punnets of strawberries for $5 last night. Raspberries and blueberries are also looking good. However, continuing rain in Victoria may affect prices …

Read more 04 December, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Dinners

Super quick Quicklinks today, as I’m rushing, rushing to get everything finished before going away for the weekend. Which means I’m not going to get a chance to tell you about the new Wellbeing Food magazine which is available in newsagents and gorgeous. If you get a chance take a look, otherwise I’ll chat more about it next week. * An apple a day: What a lovely idea for using those annoying little stickers you get on fruit. A …

Read more 30 January, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

It’s super-hot in Sydney today. Spring has barely sprung and yet temperatures are already topping 30°C. The wind is like being inside a hairdryer. We’re out of the awkward seasonal transition month of September, so produce choices are getting better and better. I’ve been eating lots and lots and LOTS of asparagus, it’s been super-cheap over the last few weeks. Blueberries are now coming to us from NSW, so they’re creeping down in price. On the other end of the …

Read more 03 October, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Soups and Dinners

• Obesity: Fascinating article on CalorieLab about the difference between Japanese and American cultures, food habits and attitudes to obesity. It’s written by Makiko from Just Hungry. There’s a follow up perspective here. * Beetroot soup: It’s been at least a month since I linked to the last beetroot recipe, so how could I pass up the opportunity to show off Green Gourmet Giraffe’s chunky beetroot soup with kidney beans? * Don’t know what to do with fish? Why …

Read more 25 January, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

This is going to be a light blogging week, as I have some article deadlines I’m struggling with. My ability to focus and construct meaningful arguments seems to have deserted me this week. So this is a quick post to ask if you’re too busy to eat an orange? Apparently a lot of people in the UK are. Or at least sales of oranges have declined three years in a row – and they believe it’s because people are …

Read more 25 June, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Nutrition

I’ve blogged before about lycopene, that lovely red carotenoid antioxidant. From everything I’ve read to date, foods containing lycopene have to be heated or processed for the antioxidant to become available to us. It’s one of the reasons I like this antioxidant, it puts paid to the whole “raw is best” argument. Raw is sometimes best, but not always and certainly not in the case of lycopene. Or so I thought . . . Three months ago I mentioned "a …

Read more 11 November, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

Next on Q & A Month is a BIG and difficult question. Steve wants to know: bq. What is the deterioration rate of nutrients in fruit and vegetables – from the time they are picked, sold to you, kept in your fridge and finally eaten? Is it the same rate for all fruits and vegetables or do some lose their nutrients faster than others? This is a really hard question to answer, as there are so many ifs, buts …

Read more 14 February, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

Today’s task in 31 Days to a Better Diet is a from another guest writer. I’m very pleased to welcome Cassie of Veggie Meal Plans to Limes & Lycopene. Cassie’s post reveals a useful way to increase the variety of foods you eat. One of the most important changes in how I eat and what I eat started one night when I was at friend’s home heating a diet frozen dinner in the microwave.‭ ‬I was planning to eat …

Read more 12 August, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Baking and Recipes

I’ve been slowly working away at this muffin recipe for about 6 weeks now, tweaking, testing then re-tweaking, until there was a huge eureka yesterday when I finally cracked it. There are a gazillion muffin recipes out there, so why all the bother? Well I had certain requirements for my muffins. I wanted each one to contain at least one serving of fruit, to contain walnuts, to taste really good and to have no added fat and very little …

Read more 24 November, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Vegan, Fruit, Baking and Recipes

After posting my date and walnut muffin recipe, I’ve recently adapted it, for using fresh fruit. I’ve cooked these muffins all summer, using peaches, nectarines, apricots and even mangoes, but I keep on forgetting to photograph them, hence the delay in posting this recipe. These muffins are really good. They’re low in kilojoules, have no added fat, as well as being low in sugar . . . and yet they taste great. Moreover, most of the fat comes from …

Read more 15 February, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

I was asked a question about fruit this week: if you eat plenty of vegetables, do you need to eat fruit? Both vegetables and fruit are necessary in a healthy diet. While we sometimes clump them together in our head, and they come from the same part of the supermarket, they provide different nutrients. h3. Why you need fruit Fruit and vegetables do contain many similar nutrients. For example they’re both rich in potassium and fibre. However, you need …

Read more 18 October, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit

Next on Q & A Month Sophia asks a question about sultanas: bq. I have an active little boy, nearly 2yrs old. I am trying to avoid too much sugar and processed food in his diet, so for snacks I give him a mix of sultanas, dried apricots and dried banana chips, as well as rice cakes. He especially loves sultanas . . . Is there such a thing as too many sultanas? . . . I give him …

Read more 28 January, 2008

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Myths

A while back Cooking Chat asked a question in the comments on my post about antioxidant supplements – are juices a good way to get your daily fruit serves? I can totally understand the attraction of juice – they’re sweet, easy to consume, tasty, no fussy cutting up or messy fingers at the end, you can buy them anywhere and they’re made from fruit, so they must be good for you? However, it’s not that simple. Fruit is part of …

Read more 28 March, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Spring

Frosts have destroyed much of Goulburn Valley’s pear and stone fruit harvest. Reports do vary, but at least half the region’s 300,000 tonnes of fruit has been wiped out. All of the apricots are gone, the pear crop is severly affected, while many smaller growers have also lost peaches, plums and nectarines. So far the damage is estimated to be at least $70 million, although the Victorian government has decided against declaring it a natural disaster area. The Goulburn Valley …

Read more 27 September, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Spring

One of the many fine things about summer in Australia is the fabulous fruit – mangoes, nectarines, peaches, cherries, melons, lychees are all grown in this country and quality is fabulous. However, it seems this summer is going to be a mixed season. While the mango harvest in the Northern Territory is going to be huge, there will be a shorter supply of other stonefruit.  A few weeks ago frosts in the Goulburn Valley destroyed a significant portion of their …

Read more 18 October, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

September is one of those months in Sydney where fruit and vegie choices contract. Winter produce is drying up, while the spring fruit and veg just isn’t quite ready. Spring is definitely on its way, as I’ve spotted the first new season asparagus in a couple of shops! It’s pricey but looks beautiful. As the weather warms up more produce will become available. You can track the latest list of seasonal fruit and vegetables in Sydney, by watching the "what’s …

Read more 03 September, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Easier eating

Yesterday I blogged about the problem with Fruit Roll-ups , as a snack and a source of fruit (they’re not). So what options does that leave, for those fussy non-fruit eaters out there? It can be hard to get some kids (and also some adults) to eat fruit, with complaints ranging from taste, through to fruits too messy. However, fruit is an important part of a healthy diet – it gives us vitamin C, valuable fibre, potassium, as well as …

Read more 23 September, 2006

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Myths

As I’ve blogged about, juices are not necessarily all they’re cracked up to be. Yes, they contain vitamins and antioxidants, but that’s mixed up with a whole lot of kilojoules and no fibre. 1 glass of orange juice (ie 250ml) is more than 500 kilojoules, which is equal to: * 2 bananas * 3 small apples * 3 punnets of fresh strawberries * 3 oranges * 2 tablespoons of sultanas So, if you’re drinking a few glasses of juice a …

Read more 30 March, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Myths

While we’re on the subject of juice, under the heading Juice – it’s a health miracle, Weighty Matters points out the effectiveness of marketing by the juice industry. Here in Australia, just think about how ubiquitous ads, in-store promotions and marketing are by the big juice companies: Just Juice, the Daily Juice Company, Berri and so on. While at the Diet Dish, Cynthia Sass discusses a UK article stating it’s not uncommon for the average woman to use 70% …

Read more 28 March, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Myths and Fruit

Vanessa has asked about food combining – is it: bq. better to eat fruit as it’s own meal or snack – rather than in a dish or along side a meal – because it digests quickly compared with other foods? The food combining approach to diet was first promoted by Dr William Hay in the 1920s. His eating plan – the Hay Diet – is still around today. In the Hay Diet all foods are seperated into three groups – …

Read more 12 July, 2007

Posted by kathryn in Fruit, Vegetables and Easier eating

Just recently I’ve started subscribing to a weekly fruit and vegetable box. It’s a CSA scheme, where you don’t get any choice. Instead, each Monday a box of in-season fruit and vegetables, grown within 5 hours of Sydney, is delivered. I’m loving it. The produce is fresh, each week I’m getting something new and there have even been some surprises in the box – produce I’ve never tasted. But making the best use of a vegetable box, is a …

Read more 02 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Vegetables

A while ago Iona asked a really good question, about buying vegetables where she lived: bq. It’s a city without farmers’ markets, where fruit and vegetables are transported in lorries without refrigeration and stored in crates out in the hot sun at the city’s vegetable stands . . . as a result, fruit and vegetables often aren’t terribly fresh. Peppers are always wrinkly, carrots and cucumbers are soft and bendy, spinach is half green, half yellowish-brown in colour, asparagus has …

Read more 17 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Blogging and Fruit

Today I have a question and also some news. h3. Citrus I’ve just moved into a suburb, where almost every house has a citrus tree. In my garden there is a glorious, large lime tree. When we moved in it was laden with fruit and I’ve been frantically preserving, marmalading, making pickle, squeezing into salad dressings and giving away to friends. Over the last two weeks it’s come alive with new flowers and these blossoms, as I have discovered, …

Read more 02 September, 2011

Posted by kathryn in Fruit and Easier eating

I’m constantly perplexed by the number of people who tell me they buy apples each week; carry one to work every day, with the intention of eating it in the afternoon instead of a chocolate bar. Then they carry that very same apple home with them, uneaten, at the end of each day. Come the end of the week, the apple has traveled to and from work several times, is bruised, mushy and unappetising and therefore ends up in …

Read more 25 February, 2013