My mind is boggling!!!

Given that everytime I go shopping I am invariably confronted by the following question ......"what are you going to do with all that fruit?". The checkout operator usually asks but often random people look into my trolley quizzically. Today the checkout operator kept asking my bemused four year old daughter what she was going to do with it all.

Anyway, that got me to thinking ..... if everyone asks the same thing, there must be more uses for fruit than I realised, my mind is boggling with the possibilities.

I eat my fruit (perhaps I have just led a sheltered life), what do you all do with yours?

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Permalink Reply by hannah on October 14, 2011 at 3:16am

obviously everyone here eats it, but many people cook (banana bread, banana pancakes), juice it, have parties and need lots, make lots of smoothies, feed animals, etc.

Just tell people "oh, I just buy it for show, it all rots at home"

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Permalink Reply by Mike Rawsome Grant on October 14, 2011 at 3:22am

The possibilities are endless:

- consuming

- juggling

- working out with

- playing catch

- skin care

- offering it to others

- show & tell during school (can be very informative for the listeners!)

- to scare framily, friends, and colleagues into thinking you just won't conform to the present system we live in

I have used it for all these, and I am sure there are more that I haven't thought of.

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Permalink Reply by Jack on October 14, 2011 at 3:33am

If anyone asks, depending on the day, I...

...feed my monkey

...stuff my pillow

...ward off the vampires

...feed the fruit flies

...paint my pyjamas

...offer sacrifice to the killer bunny

...fuel my infinite improbability drive.

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on October 14, 2011 at 3:38am

My organic fruit delivery dude has been bringing my massive crates of fruit for a few months now and finally asked me this morning what do I do with it all, I just simply replied that I eat it and that I am fruitarian :-)

He looked quite taken with the idea :-) He even said that next time I do an event (I am a food coach and speaker) that he can send someone from the farm to do a short talk on organics :-) cool

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Permalink Reply by Jon on October 14, 2011 at 6:12am

LIKE!

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Permalink Reply by Ana on October 14, 2011 at 4:57am

Do you think that there is a way we could leverage it to get the raw word out? Although often it's easier to just say something off-hand, I have tried to open the raw food discussion. "I'm a rawfoodist" or "I'm a natural hygienist" maybe should be our response? At least we'd start getting some people used to the terminology!! LOL What do all of you think?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Randall on October 14, 2011 at 6:19am

Carlen, try focusing on being confident in what you're doing. It's so much more fun buying groceries that way! I look forward to getting groceries every week. I have so many great conversations, it's one of the highlights of my week!

Chris Randall

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Permalink Reply by Steven on October 14, 2011 at 5:17am

I reply to such questions with silence, had too many of them and it isn't funny or entertaining and when I'm buying fruit I don't have a goal to entertain checkout operators and/or convert everyone including their dog to raw foods diet

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Permalink Reply by Ali on October 14, 2011 at 11:17pm

Thanks for that, I must think of a set of answers that I can use depending on my mood. I could look all intrigued and ask "wow what other uses are there for fruit?" which would then make them realise what a silly question they have just asked, or perhaps I could say that I am part of a secret monkey smuggling gang, or that I have my husband bolted into some stocks...

Funny how I wouldn't get asked what I was going to do with a trolley full of dismembered animals!