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When you try to feed your kids healthy snacks,

fruit is a pretty good option.

(I'm sure open to suggestions in the healthy snack dept!!!)

but - everyone knows that fruit

ain't cheap.

(When you are feeding 9, nothing is cheap.....)

So to save a bit of money,

for the past several years

I've rarely eaten my own piece of fruit.

(big fruits, not things like grapes or strawberries)

I figure some of the kids

are going to leave some of their fruit

some of the time.

The rule is

'don't throw fruit away when you're finished'.

Sometimes they offer it to me as soon as they're finished;

sometimes I just find a half eaten apple lying on the counter.

It's a pretty good system

and I get plenty of fruit too,

for free :-)

Except that babies are getting bigger.

We just bought peaches for the first time this year.

And I haven't gotten any half peaches.
or even quarter-peaches.

I walked in the kitchen

to find one lone peach sitting in the fruit basket.

And so I ate it.

All by myself.