Passing the Canned Fruit Aisle

After a workout a couple of days ago I thought I would head to the grocery to grab some spinach for a salad. It's my latest thing. Then of course it's never one thing. So I grabbed some bananas and an orange. Then I check out the rest of the store. Not sure what else I dropped in the cart.

Then I passed the canned fruit aisle. I started thinking, you know that's where I use to get all my fruit and almost never from the produce section. I wondered why I ever grabbed canned fruit. Then it occurred to me because that was just easy and of course the nice sugary syrup surrounding the fruit. It's tough to teach your taste buds to go for the fresh stuff. Then peeling some fruit is a chore. Took me a couple of tries to get slicing up a pineapple right. Somehow though I managed. These days I almost always have fresh fruit around the house, blueberries, strawberries, fresh pineapple, bananas, grapes, and oranges. Often I will keep a bowl of fruit salad in the fridge or use fruit as a late night snack.

I just cannot imagine having just canned fruit these days. You can get very use to fresh.