This is not meant to be a derogatory question in any way - I mean it literally. I have a hard time eating fruit. I have to make myself eat my 3 or so healthy servings a day. My orange juice always tastes good in the morning, but I go down hill from there. Summer is a little better, because I do love berries and melon, so I have a much larger selection to choose from. Winter is rough. The only way I'll eat apples or pears is if I can have cheese or peanut butter with them. Otherwise they make me queasy. Grapes also make me queasy. I've never been fond of oranges, but I do like the much smaller and easier-to-peel tangerine. In fact, I sometimes find myself craving tangerines in the wintertime, probably something to do with a vitamin C deficiency.
I am definitely a vegetable person. I LOVE them. Raw celery, cucumber and celery chopped up in salads; roasted asparagus, sauteed Brussels sprouts, okra gumbo, different squashes, etc.. My mouth is watering thinking about it! I grew up eating the standards: green beans, peas and corn, and a few stranger ones like yellow squash and okra. Somewhere around my late 20's I discovered there was a whole world of vegetables waiting for me to discover. I'm currently trying to learn to love greens like Swiss chard and kale, but I've got a ways to go.
My husband, on the other hand, is like an exact opposite of me. He easily eats 4 or 5 pieces of fruit a day, and has since he was a kid. He is SO a fruit person. But vegetables don't come easy to him. The great thing is he will try anything I put in front of him, and normally is surprised to find how much he likes it.
I guess we were meant to be together.
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I do great with oj for breakfast and occasionally with some vodka in it (not at breakfast -- yet), and I love guacamole, of course!
Yes-I forgot to bring up avocados. I used to hate them, but now I love them. They still don't really seem like a fruit to me, though.
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