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What are your favorite fruits? |
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My favorite fruits are not in the country. They are a little yellow fruit that looks like an apple. It has a lot of little seeds. It has the most fragrant aroma and is delicious. I love all tropical fruits. I love pineapples, mangos, papayas, and kiwi. I like bananas, oranges, and apples, too.
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What vegetables do your family eat? |
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My favorite vegetable is broccoli. We like broccoli a lot. We also like carrots. My husband and I like zucchini. The children are not too crazy about it but I find ways to get them to eat it. We make things with zucchini and they don't even know it.
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How do you hide zucchini in the foods you prepare? |
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How do I hide zucchini? I don't know that I hide it. I make pancakes. I put them in casseroles and I make a spaghetti sauce and I put zucchini in it, put it right in the blender with the sauce. Some other ways I do it.
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Are you concerned about fat in your diet? |
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I'm not especially concerned about fat. I learned to gauge the fat that goes into our family by what I bring home from the grocery store. Three years ago it wasn't unusual to run out of a package a butter a week and the cooking oil was going even faster. Now it takes a month and a half or more to go through a pound of butter. I only buy the small bottle of cooking oil. That will last me a whole month. I trim all the fat off meat. I have cut way down on the fat. The one thing I'm concerned about and would really like to change is to make sure I drink more water. I notice when I drink a lot of water I feel more alert. I feel like my body functions better. It just makes you feel good.
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What about hidden fat? |
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Hidden fat? Things like hotdogs? I have become very aware of how much of that I buy. We used to have a lot of kids in the house all the time. Making a hotdog for lunch was just an easy thing to do. If they're not in the house then I don't have to worry about them. Other hidden fats will are in things like peanut butter. I tend to be a peanut butter lover sometimes. I get cravings and I do eat it. I try to be aware of it so that it doesn't become an everyday thing. Salad dressings can have a lot of fat. Instead of dressing, I've been using salsa quite a bit for a lot of my green salads. You ought to try it. It is quite good. You can do a lot of variations with salsa. The sky's the limit. It is not only for green salads. You put it on macaroni. Then put in a little bit of veggies, lightly steamed and cooled. Put a hard boiled egg on top and then pour some salsa on top of the whole thing and some peas. Oh, is it good. Make a good light lunch and it's tasty. Very tasty. |