This one was Finn’s idea! At some point before school let out for summer, we had a conversation about fruit and he decided that he wanted to try every single fruit he could! Who could say no to that? Not me!
So I set to working pulling together a list of the fruits I thought were sold in Georgia. I made PowerPoint slides with pictures of each of the fruits, grouped them together, printed them out and put them together with a binder ring so we could take the to the store and find the fruits each week from the pictures and check them off as we tried them!
Our shopping excursions were FUN and interesting and a little frustrating. We had a hard time finding some items on the list and multiple trips were made on some weeks. Eventually we just started to go a little bit out of order and grab what we could when we found it.
We started with apples and avocados. Apricots were also on the list but we had a hard time finding them.
Then there was eggplant….after polling some friends I was told to fry it.
Melon Day!!!
And the elusive dragon fruit! We finally found it. We tried it. We do not like it.
We tried 7 types of apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, dates, eggplant, grapes (red, green and black), grapefruit, lemon, lime, mango, canteloupe, honeydew, watermelon, canary melon, nectarines, peaches, clementines, mandarins, oranges, tangerines, papaya, plantain, pears, plums (we actually tried a couple kinds of plums), 3 types of pluots, pineapple, raisins, raspberries, star fruit, strawberries and tomatoes. We didn’t get the durian, guava, jackfruit, kumquat, pomegranate or ugli fruit. We also skipped kiwi because I’m allergic to it and we just don’t even want to test it with the kiddos.
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