Our household has recently gone crazy over bananas, thanks in large to The Boy. That kid will eat 3 bananas before breakfast and 3 more over the course of the day – in addition to 3 hearty meals and a snack here and there. That boy can eat. We have begun to call him “Manna Man” before 9 or 10 AM, because all he does in the morning is ask for mannas.
Influenced by him, the rest of us have upped our banana consumption as well. I am guessing we eat 30 lbs per week, conservatively. I mean the guess is conservative; we eat them liberally.
All of this is leading up to my epiphany, though none of it was really necessary info. I just felt like sharing all that. Here is my grand realization. As I was standing at a gas station, munching on a banana while a bathtub worth of gasoline gushed into my gas tank, I realized that there are at least 3 wonderful characteristics of bananas that combine to make them uniquely convenient:
- They can be eaten unwashed, since you peel them.
- They can be eaten with unwashed hands, since you peel them and hold them by the peel.
- No need to wash afterward, since you hold them by the peel.
How many other healthy, all natural foods could you eat with no prep while pumping gas with no concern over contamination? Well, I guess you could worry about fumes, but I was going to breath regardless of whether I was cramming food in my mouth…
As an additional note of interest, can anyone tell me what common element of punctuation I did not use in this post? Here is why: my computer (or maybe it was a decision of WordPress) has decided to open a search every time I hit a particular key. Normally this happens when I hit Control+F, but tonight it happens when I try to use that particularly handy bit of punctuation. Bizarre? Yes. But I never claimed to live a normal life.
See? My life is never boring, and it is not always because of the children.
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Exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Am I right?)
Amy
No!
Try again…
I know–a single quotation mark!
Elise is a 2 banana/day girl, herself.
I’ve found the cheapest price at our Dollar General Market, 37 cents/lb. And they’re not the giant bananas that tempt you to leave one half on the counter browning, either.
Do you buy yours in bulk? What do you like to pay?
Meredith,
You got it: I had no apostrophe last night. Today it’s working just fine (see? Did you see it?)
We usually pay 39 cents/lb at Walmart for our bananas. I wish I could get them in bulk; it would certainly pay off for us! We do tend to get the larger ones since I suspect there’s a smaller ratio of peel to edible fruit, and we have no trouble finishing the big ones around here. I guess we’re hearty eaters.
I cannot imagine living in a time when nanners were not plentiful at any market. We LOVE some nanners here and if for some reason we have an “off” week – mmmmmmm banana bread…….
They are a real must and they are perfect to stay fit, too, did you know? But bananas mustn’t be very ripe and sweet, otherwise they are full of Joules (did I write it correctly? Darn, I’m a metrical-decimal girl, after all
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Love and peace to all of you!
We love nanners too!!! I did a very important poll on my blog about the “right” way to peel bananas. http://amazinggrazefarm.blogspot.com/2007/12/very-important-poll.html
The results are given a couple of days later. =) Inquiring minds need to know these things…..
hi kim,
here from frugal hacks.
When my kids were infants eating off a tray or my lap, I loved bananas for travel food.
Would slice them in half, cover the open end, and when mealtime came would simply spoon feed from the banana as if it were a little bowl. Did the same with kiwi.
This way baby had fresh , cheap fruit and clean hands and clothes when in public (or otherwise away from convenient clean-up space).
deb meyers
We love bananas here too, but at the going rate of 59 cents a pound you can bet we don’t have them a lot. I used to able to find them 3 lbs for a dollar, but haven’t seen that deal in a while. Elise
Came by way of frugal hacks…
Ours are 59 cents a pound here tooo. 49 cents is a decent sale, they won’t go below that. I’m jealous of the prices I’m reading.
My mum raised me with the thought ‘only ONE banana a day, otherwise you won’t be able to go to the toilet’..
I’m glad to see it wasn’t true after all…… RIGHT?
*lol* Greetings from the netherlands!
Linda,
I was a little concerned about that at first, but The Boy definitely has *no* problem there.
:p