How many fruit servings should you eat per day? 2? 3? 5? Let’s consult the food pyramid.
But do we still use the pyramid? I thought we were using a circle because it looks like a plate. What if all my plates are triangle shaped? Does that mean I’m a nonconformist or behind-the-times because I’m using plates that look like pyramids?
Anyways, I think I eat enough fruit.
- Fruit-filled Pop-Tarts
- Blueberry muffins
- Peanut butter and jelly (strawberry or raspberry) sandwiches
- Strawberry Frosted MiniWheats
- Orange or cherry popsicles
- Oatmeal raisin granola bars
- Fruit By the Foot.*
Recently, I found a new way to incorporate even more fruit into my diet.
Don't judge me.
Milk chocolate with cherries, dark chocolate with blueberries and lavendar,** dark chocolate and blueberries, and white chocolate and strawberries.***
Chocolate and fruit. Together. Living in harmony. And living in my tummy.
Also, you’ll notice that I don’t discriminate against chocolate. White, milk, and dark—I love it all.
*For those of you going into shock, every day I eat at least 3 real fruits.
**I’m worried that the dark chocolate, blueberry, and lavendar bar may be a horrible, horrible mistake. But does lavendar count as a vegetable serving?
***This weekend I made a smore with the white chocolate and strawberries. Let’s just say I’ll definitely be having smore.
February 21st, 2012 at 8:31 am
…And 75 parents just used parental controls to block your blog from from tehir children…
I like strawberry shakes from Carvel, myself.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:21 am
That’s ok. That just means more for me!
February 21st, 2012 at 8:39 am
Na na nuh boo boo, Jared eats more fruit than you. I eat all of that AND pineapple stuffed sausage, raspberry jelly doughnuts, pomegranate glazed haggis, pickled maraschino cherries and pigs feet, Cap’n Crunch Oops All Berries! etc, etc,.
February 21st, 2012 at 8:45 am
Ack!!!
Thou Shalt Not Put Pigs Feet Anywhere Near Cap’n Crunch. Or Raspberry Jelly Doughnuts.
February 21st, 2012 at 8:47 am
Haha, thank goodness it was hyperbole ; )
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:21 am
Raspberry jelly donuts…mmmm….
February 21st, 2012 at 8:47 am
Curiously enough, I thought of you this weekend when I saw that Kraft is now making chocolate marshmallows and strawberry marshmallows and blueberry marshmallows. I wonder if you were making smores at that very moment. Spooky!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:22 am
Blueberry marshmallows? What? Where? I’ve had strawberry, chocolate, french vanilla, and german chocolate cake marshmallows.
February 21st, 2012 at 8:51 am
You should weigh one ton. When you get a chance, head over to my spot under “Who? Me?” – you have a pick up
iz
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 am
I have to exercise a lot to keep my slightly pudgy figure.
Thanks for the award!
February 21st, 2012 at 8:56 am
Food pyramid round? I always thought it would be square as in “square meal”. I don’t think even the dieticians know what shape it is anymore because they keep changing the nation’s dietary needs.
Chocolate has antioxidants. So you’re getting what ever nutrients are left in the over processed fruit AND anticancer agents as well!
Munch away……
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:24 am
Antioxidants…I never knew….
February 21st, 2012 at 9:41 am
lavender chocolate? sounds dee-scus-ting. I recently watched a documentary on food in America, and the food pyramid has changed a few times over the years. so, who knows, maybe you’re on to something.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:24 am
I don’t think the lavendar chocolate sounds good either, but I’m willing to give it a try in the name of chocolate.
February 21st, 2012 at 9:58 am
I have seen those and always wondered about them. I am very curious of the lavendar choc.
February 21st, 2012 at 9:59 am
I need you to open that candy bar and take a nibble and let me know lol. It’s going to drive me nuts lol.
February 21st, 2012 at 10:23 am
Strawberry filling TOTALLY COUNTS!! Oh, and I’m not sure how much pizza or spaghetti you consume, but just remember that tomatoes are fruits as well. I am all about tomato sauce!! Oh, and you forgot wine. Made from grapes. See, you are super healthy!!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 am
TOMATOES! I don’t eat much spaghetti or pizza, but I eat a lot of ketchup.
February 21st, 2012 at 10:44 am
OMG. I was seriously asking myself this question this morning (because I was looking at Peanut Butter and Company’s website for birthday gifts for my brother), which then made me think of Pop Tarts (might be one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure foods), which made me think of you.
P.S. – Cadbury fruit and nut bars are one of the BEST (it’s just raisins and peanuts)! Have you had it? Their chocolate is so good. I WILL visit the factory in England some day.
February 22nd, 2012 at 12:35 am
Peanut Butter and Company’s dark chocolate peanut butter is amazing. In fact, I think I’ll go have some.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 am
I have the dark chocolate PB. It’s yummy!
Also, I’ll put anything Cadbury in my mouth.
February 21st, 2012 at 10:46 am
The cocoa bean is actually the seeds of a berry. Thus, fruit. You are welcome.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 am
Whoa…you are a genius.
February 21st, 2012 at 10:48 am
Yes because Lemon curd does which is why I can have it on toast for breakfast….I may or may not have made that up
February 21st, 2012 at 10:48 am
Girl, you know that I am the queen of chocolate consumption but LAVENDER CHOCOLATE? You let me know how that goes, okay?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:27 am
I keep putting off trying it because I’m afraid…so afraid.
February 21st, 2012 at 11:11 am
Good for you for rocking the food pyramid/plate!
But I don’t think lavendar counts as a fruit or a vegetable. It’s a sachet.
Where would chocolate covered grasshoppers fit in?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:27 am
I’m going to pretend that I didn’t see that you waste chocolate on grasshoppers.
February 21st, 2012 at 11:20 am
Oh. My. Gosh. CHOCOLATE! Where do you find all of these glorious verities of chocolate?! :-O
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 am
My local Giant Eagle.
February 21st, 2012 at 11:26 am
This has to be better than not eating fruit at all. I don’t eat fruit at all. Or very little of it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 am
I think it’s better than nothing at all, too. What fruit do you eat?
February 21st, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I think what’s confusing is that the dietary recommendations aren’t suggested in feet. How many feet of fruit should I eat? How many feet of string cheese? No wonder nobody can get it right.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:32 am
How may feet of fruit by the foot? Excellent point.
February 21st, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Definitely!
February 21st, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Only three real fruits a day. We will never fill our “Fruit Sticker” board at that rate.
February 21st, 2012 at 5:14 pm
I have square plates so I am lost *sighs*.
What about Strawberry Shortcakes? That’s fruit and dairy!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:33 am
Mmmm….
February 21st, 2012 at 6:44 pm
I once had lavender ice cream and it was amazing..I want to try that lavender bar.
February 22nd, 2012 at 12:43 am
Great. Now I’ve drooled over my keyboard again.
I once went to a wedding where the cake was lemon and lavender. I’m usually not crazy about wedding cake, but this one was delicious.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:38 am
I love this post. So clever. Based on what you’re saying I eat tons of fruit! Thanks for helping me just my bad habit.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:34 am
I am a professional enabler.
February 22nd, 2012 at 5:10 am
Discriminate against chocolate? Never!
Although, I am curious about that blueberry and lavender one
February 22nd, 2012 at 6:55 am
They still make Fruit by the Foot?? I loved that stuff as a kid!
February 22nd, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Yes to strawberry jam being a fruit. Especially if it’s Bonne Maman.