My Wish – Fruit Cutting Super Power

Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows that fruit is one of the good things to eat.  Not only is it yummy and usually sweet, but most fruit is juicy.   Ok not bananas, but melons, peaches and pineapple are all wet chin inducing.  And all that juiciness is somehow satisfying.

Weight Watchers finally woke up last year and changed their diet program to allow people to eat as much fruit as they wanted.  In their old plan an apple was worth the same number of points as a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich, crazy huh?  Everybody ate ice cream sandwiches and wondered why they were not losing very much weight.

If I had known about this change Weight Watchers was going to make I would have shorted Skinny Cow’s stock because not only was fruit a “free” food, but the Skinny Cows were now three points instead of two.  A change they had to make to account for all this fruit everyone was going to be eating.

Not so fast.  Buying, cleaning, peeling, cutting fruit is a huge pain in my proverbial A*&.  Not to mention the cost.  Although I am not going to Weight Watchers, I am so well versed in the program from years of sitting through meetings, that I still look at all food and count the point values in my head.

Long before Weight Watchers made fruit free I was choosing blueberries over a graham cracker slathered with cool whip because I knew that eating fruit helped me loose more weight.

But if I were a super hero and could have one super power, other than the ability to eat what ever I liked and be skinny, I would chose the ability to point at fruit and turn it into fruit salad.

No more cutting the ends off pineapples, then the skin, then coring and chopping it into bite sized pieces.  Not another melon would need to be washed on the outside then dried thanks to Lysteria hysteria, then cut in half and had the seeds scooped out then the flesh scored into chunks and removed from the rind.  I love eating it, just hate prepping it.

But as far as I know no one is granting me a super power.  So if you ever get invited to my house for dinner and you want to ensure you will be invited back.  Leave the bottle of wine at home.  Bring me a fruit salad instead.