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Old 12-04-2016, 18:00
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Fruit salad is a breakfast dish now, not a dessert.
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Old 12-04-2016, 18:27
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We have a fresh fruit salad every week.
There are some really good fresh fruits out there now.
Cherries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Blueberries
Mango
Pineapple
Oranges
Grapes
Blackberries.
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Old 12-04-2016, 18:30
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I have quite a lot of tinned rhubarb.......the 'Tesco British Rhubarb' is the best one I've tried

I have fresh rhubarb when it's in season but it isn't at the moment......
We love rhubarb too.
The fresh is out at the moment I have seen it in our local farm shop and in the supermarket.
Pretty expensive though
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Old 15-04-2016, 23:19
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Is it? I go to a lot of restaurants and I can honestly say i've not seen fruit salad on a menu for years.
I don't go to restaurants very often now unfortunately, apart from Christmas meals and they do tend to include a tropical fruit salad as an option so that is what I was going by.
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Old 16-04-2016, 08:48
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I don't go to restaurants very often now unfortunately, apart from Christmas meals and they do tend to include a tropical fruit salad as an option so that is what I was going by.
I'm not sure I want to go to a restaurant that offers that as a dessert.
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Old 16-04-2016, 14:58
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I quite often make a bowl of fruit salad especially in the summer when the fruit is cheaper. I like to put mango and water melon in with the usual stuff.
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Old 17-04-2016, 08:43
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I have quite a lot of tinned rhubarb.......the 'Tesco British Rhubarb' is the best one I've tried

I have fresh rhubarb when it's in season but it isn't at the moment......
I grow my own. It's really easy. It just comes up. I don't have to do much with it. I probably throw more away than I actually eat. It gets woody later in the year. I have three plants. I freeze a lot of it. In fact I'm still eating last year's from the freezer and looking out at rhubarb in the garden a week or three away from being ready. Yum.

Isn't it expensive in the shops? And it usually looks limp and a bit sorry for itself.
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Old 26-04-2016, 21:34
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One of my favourite things in Rome was the fresh fruit salads they had on most dessert menus in the restaurants.

I don't have tinned fruit salad much, but in the past I have liked it with a tsp of cocoa powder and then microwaved briefly so it's a bit melty. And fresh fruit salad of banana, grapes, raspberries, bloobs, drizzled with honey.
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Old 26-04-2016, 22:58
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I grow my own. It's really easy. It just comes up. I don't have to do much with it. I probably throw more away than I actually eat. It gets woody later in the year. I have three plants. I freeze a lot of it. In fact I'm still eating last year's from the freezer and looking out at rhubarb in the garden a week or three away from being ready. Yum.

Isn't it expensive in the shops? And it usually looks limp and a bit sorry for itself.
yes, when I lived up North we had rhubarb growing in the back garden........it was very common. We ate a lot of rhubarb !

I only started buying it again towards the end of the last season and it was about 2 quid for 3 stalks...........maybe it would be cheaper at the height of the season

But I was pleasantly surprised by how good the Tesco own brand tinned rhubarb was.....certainly good enough to fill the gap between seasons
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Old 12-05-2016, 16:49
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26 degrees here in South Cheshire.

Time for a fresh fruit salad.
Just done one it included:

Blueberries
Red currants
Fresh apricots
Nectarine
Bananas
Sharon Fruit - never had that before
All sprinkled with fresh lemon juice.
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Old 16-05-2016, 18:55
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35p a tin in Sainsbury's. I saw some this morning.
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Old 17-05-2016, 11:33
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Fruit salad is a breakfast dish now, not a dessert.
Yes, it's always a treat in hotels if like me you can't have the cooked breakfast more than once or twice a week.
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