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Default Sticker shock at the store again!


"Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "W. Baker" > wrote:
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>> Julie Bove > wrote:
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>> : "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>> : >
>> : >
>> : > "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> : > Angela also had three kiwis. Need to look up the carb count for
>> : >> those. I haven't a clue because I never liked them. She asked for
>> them
>> : >> before we knew of the low carb diet and they were going to go bad if
>> : >> they
>> : >> didn't get eaten.
>> : >
>> : > When I used to have IR kiwis, just one even, caused a catastrophic bg
>> : > rise
>> : > for me. I was always fine with a small apple at snack time, or a
>> : > mandarin,
>> : > the berries of course and rockmelon and watermelon.
>>
>> : Well I guess no more kiwis then. I do *not* like messing with fruit.
>> It's
>> : sticky and icky. I tell her if she wants sliced apples to buy them
>> sliced.
>> : If she wants watermelon I'll either cut it in half and she can eat it
>> like
>> : that (I mean the personal sized ones) or buy it cut in chunks. She
>> : couldn't
>> : figure out how to peel the kiwi. And I really didn't want to do it.
>> But I
>> : did to get them out of the house.
>>
>> Can't she slice her own apples? They are cheaper whole and stay fresh
>> longer, unsliced and she can make the slices just a thik or thin as she
>> likes.
>>
>> Kiwi-use a vegetable peeler and show her how.
>>
>> Wendy

>
> I just cut them in half and eat them with a spoon out of the peel.


Maybe that's what my husband does. He never peels them. He used to eat a
lot of them but then he quit eating them.