Fruit salad
Today I went shopping for fruit.
This was part of my campaign to improve my diet and to get rather closer to the recommended 5-a-day than I currently manage. So along I went to Hagkaup (the place with the best selection of fruit and vegetables up here) on the assumption that, given they might also do a better selection of tinned fruit.
Why tinned fruit? Well, as far as the 5-a-day business is concerned I have to accept that I'm not going to eat large amounts of fresh fruit because although I have now placed a platter of fruit on my coffee table to tempt me, I'm still suffering from a lack of oomph to actually eat the stuff. Strange, but true. So, instead, I thought I'd get some tinned fruit for those moments when I suddenly decide that fruit would be a good idea.
Sadly, the tinned fruit selection was not what I hoped it would be. For starters, it's all (with the exception of some pineapple) in syrup rather than juice. I'm trying to think positively that at least it's light syrup rather than heavy syrup but it's a bit off-putting all the same. Fortunately I like pineapple.
I shall try the other supermarkets in town but I don't really hold out much hope for them. It looks like my fruit intake may end up being predominanly pineapple and bananas for a while. Ah well, it could be worse. The pineapple might have been in syrup too.
This was part of my campaign to improve my diet and to get rather closer to the recommended 5-a-day than I currently manage. So along I went to Hagkaup (the place with the best selection of fruit and vegetables up here) on the assumption that, given they might also do a better selection of tinned fruit.
Why tinned fruit? Well, as far as the 5-a-day business is concerned I have to accept that I'm not going to eat large amounts of fresh fruit because although I have now placed a platter of fruit on my coffee table to tempt me, I'm still suffering from a lack of oomph to actually eat the stuff. Strange, but true. So, instead, I thought I'd get some tinned fruit for those moments when I suddenly decide that fruit would be a good idea.
Sadly, the tinned fruit selection was not what I hoped it would be. For starters, it's all (with the exception of some pineapple) in syrup rather than juice. I'm trying to think positively that at least it's light syrup rather than heavy syrup but it's a bit off-putting all the same. Fortunately I like pineapple.
I shall try the other supermarkets in town but I don't really hold out much hope for them. It looks like my fruit intake may end up being predominanly pineapple and bananas for a while. Ah well, it could be worse. The pineapple might have been in syrup too.