#fruit and nuts

[waterstar2016]

Biggest of Happy Birthdays to you my friend! I’m sending you my brute with nothing on except that one wonderful outfit called the “dick tassels” while feeding you your favorite fruit. *wink*

Thank you!!!

I’m already salivating. The fruit sounds good too. 😏

[fullcravings]

5-Ingredient Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Covered Brownies

[caffeinatedkris]

(via Cardinal Love Mounted Print by kristalcurt)  CARDINAL LOVE: Red male cardinal watches female cardinal eat fruit and nuts on a bench by a shrub.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Iron Age Kitchen, The Scottish Crannog Centre, Loch Tay, Scotland

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[everythingwithwasabi]

Strawberry Cheesecake Cookie

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Day 10 of Heartnose Halloween: Fall/Halloween Food

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[nightmaretour]

Daily reminder that fruit and veggies don't have to be "healthy" to be nutritious. Drink that fruit juice from concentrate. Eat that jam and nut butter. Use fruit and vegetables out of a can. Eat a dessert with fruit in it. Snack on salted nuts (in moderation) or dried fruit. Literally any way you can get fruit and vegetables into your body is better than none at all.

If fresh fruit and veg aren't available to you, take too much energy to eat or prepare, or if you just can't bring yourself to eat them, whatever way you can eat them is good enough.

[selinaeliott]

Millionaire Cheesecake

[countesspetofi]

We always got oranges in the toes or our stockings, too. Except one year, when Dad’s mother had him sneak one of her prize beets into Mom’s stocking (Mom really loved beets, and Grandma wasn’t generous with them, so it was a really nice thing that happened that year).

i’ve been reading all the dear santa letters and i think it’s interesting that a lot of the kids asked for fruit and nuts. were those common christmas presents?

Fruit and nuts are by far the most commonly requested stocking stuffers I see in Dear Santa letters in the late 19th/early 20th century - even more so than candy. Apples and oranges are the fruits you see asked for most often, but in the Southern part of the US you also see bananas and coconuts requested.

As for why (at least where fruit's concerned) - consider the difference in how easy it is for us to get fresh fruit in December vs what it was like 120 years ago. Today we can put fresh produce on a plane, overnight it and have a semi drive it to a store within 24 hours. When many of these letters were written fruit had to be loaded it on a steam ship, sail across the ocean for a week, put on a coal-burning train and then delivered by horse-drawn wagon - often without the benefit of modern refrigeration.

Oranges in the middle of the winter were a treat.

When I was growing up I still usually got an orange in the toe of my stocking, because that’s what my mom got when she was little, and I’m assuming the tradition had been passed down from previous generations.

I think another factor as to why you see fruit and nuts mentioned so often is that back when kids only got two or three Christmas presents - stocking stuffers warranted a mention in a Dear Santa letter. Now that kids lists are considerably longer - I think candy and treats for your stocking are just kind of implied in most modern Xmas lists and not specifically spelled out.

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[caffeinatedkris]

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[whitefireprincess]

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[scribefindegil]

What I've learned from a couple weeks of engagement is that I'm going to be pretty chill and flexible regarding like 98% of wedding stuff however I am already conducting an exhaustive survey of every bakery in our metro area because that is the only way to acquire a cake that lives up to my standards.

[everythingwithwasabi]

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