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Email a FriendPosted by jhmomofmany on Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 9:04 AM (EDT):
Lovely idea, and one I’ve read but never tried… maybe I will today. I suppose it probably doesn’t work as well with discarded bananas? 
An Apple A Day
an Autumn potpourri
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:30 PM
My boys don’t always get around to eating an entire apple, and somedays I will find a few half-eaten Fuji’s resting around my kitchen counters.
The perfect solution (besides trying to track down the offending party and telling him to finish this apple!) is to cut up the remaining, oft dried-out fruit and throw into a saucepan of water. Add to that a few sticks of cinnamon and you have the perfect Fall fragrance wafting through your home.
The only downside is that loved ones will walk into the kitchen in search of the delicious dessert you are no doubt preparing for dinner.
And I kinda feel bad about that. Just a tad.
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Posted by StephC on Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 1:18 PM (EDT):
To both of you: would anyone have a problem if you actually, uh, recycled the discarded fruit as food?
I figure that if I’m putting something in a 350 degree oven, no germs are going to survive in that apple’s next life as a pie or muffin. As for bananas, you can freeze them (w/o peel) and reuse in smoothies or defrost for breads.
Or is that taking frugality to the fringes?
Posted by lilacs on Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 4:19 PM (EDT):
yes, we had 5 kids in the house last week and we all went apple picking, and my one-year-old went around taking a bit out of every single apple he could find! I made applesauce out of them. The heat definitely kills the germs! But the fragrance is a great idea, too! Especially when you don’t feel like cooking.
Posted by Mama Toad on Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 10:01 PM (EDT):
I have been known to gather semi-eaten apples into a plastic bag in the fridge for a day or two until, lo and behold, I have enough for apple crisp!
Peeled bananas freeze beautifully until it is smoothie or banana bread time. Frugal is a compliment!
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