I am such a fraud

I'm pretty strict with myself when it comes to airfreighting in fruit, but I occasionally slip up when it comes to bananas as they're so easy to feed the kids. My personal guilty (not so secret) is Toffifees, those caramel/hazelnut chocolates that used to be fairly easy to get hold of in the UK but you can hardly buy anywhere any more. Needless to say, I've never seen them in Portugal. Since Woolworths closed I have been sadly deprived.

Prawns/shrimp! We live in a place which is not near a coast and we do not get fresh sea food here. The state in India where we are from is a coastal area and fish is part of the staple diet...and almost all households have fish daily. Since we don't stay in the state and we do not get fresh fish where we are at, I do not cook fish (and since I learnt to cook only after we moved here, I don't even know how to cook fish). But I will never miss a chance to get shrimp which are highly priced. That's my guilty food secret.

So, you got your raspberries after all.

Guilty? chocolate?

I love nearly ALL sorts of food, haha!~I can at one time take a few bars of chocolate if I don't control, haha!~

Hi Pikey, I used to go raspberry picking many years ago in the beautiful hot summer days, so verythime I taste of smell them, it just takes me back. but I love freshley picked not ones from some other country or forced ripped, its just me. Tamara xxxx

If you have a big enough freezer you can buy in season and freeze them. But if you run out you will still need to buy out of season. Anyway i believe that people do that in most parts of the world and its considered as normal. Also a little most expensive. Funny thing is although i love fresh (frozen or dried) raspberries i cant stand anything artificially flavored raspberries.

Raspberry is also my favorite fruit flavor. I'll go out of my way to find anything raspberry. Raspberries are not to be found here in some places when they're out of season and even then they're high priced. I'll use raspberry jellies and jams to top my favorite vanilla ice cream. I don't see any raspberry ice cream on the market but do find the sorbets and sherberts. Maybe they don't lend themselves well to ice cream?

Now here is spring. Still cold wind blows in the morning. Jack-fruit is a summer fruit in our country. It tests sweet. Most of the people like it.I too. I preserve the juice of this fruit. In the winter my wife prepares cake by this juice mixed with some ingredients. It is so delicious. Would I be free from sins by this confession and how many sins?

Yep, I have been guilty too. For all my good work in buying local produce every week from the local organic markets, I still cannot give up my frozen blueberries and raspberries which I get very cheap. I know fresh are better, but they are pretty expensive and the frozen ones are very refreshing in my smoothies. They come from overseas, New Zealand and China. I also indulge in Thai coconuts from you guessed it...Thailand!

Hot, Very hot south Indian pickles. I try to limit this to once a week but fail most of the time. The worst part is, I know I am being "Bad" and somehow enjoy that!

Hi friend, actually i m living in my village. There are many fruits are available here for free of cost. I will to their agri fields, there i can eat as per my wish. Because here in villages all are well known persons and having strong relations. I like mangoes here in my village there are many mango garden we have, and very big big trees also. Coming to your raspberrries.... I don't know about them, are they very tasty? And here some of our friends are telling about blue berries, care to enlighten me about them(simply). (I can ask you without shy, because u r my friend of mylot).

Awwh and I though I could reveal a secret here. Unfortunately I am a plain Jane when it comes to food. Nothing exotic as I am picky, nothing fattening as I exercise hard five days a week, berries, strawberries and bananas I cannot eat as my throat cannot stand the gooey fruits. Now if we were speaking of other pleasures.. oh never mind wrong discussion.

I've gained over 4kg last winter, how terrible! I've been keeping a normal of weight of 48-49kg for over 2 years but last year when I got the new job and working 6 days a week, I become too tired and lazy to go out for sports. So the whole autumun and winter I was sitting in the office, rarely could I spare out the time and mood for an outdoor activity or to jog for 30min. The more I sit here, the more lazy and tired I grow, the fatter I become...Now the vicious circle has seriously harmed my figure and feelings. Spring is coming, and yesterday while walking on the street after work I suddenly noticed that the whole streets were beautiful slim girls, and I used to be one among them, but not this year...I sadly found that the clothing I bought last spring and summer can't be worn anymore, they're too small and tight, but they used to be loose! Now I'm determing to lose weight, from today on.

Avocados would be my indulgence. I guess they may come from California, or from Florida, but they could also come from Mexico. Where ever they come from, it is a ways to get them to Kansas.

I am so not worried about my carbon footprint. I will eat what I want, and if they had to import it from Chili, hey, I'm supporting farmers in Chili! I am supposed to eat 3 pieces of fruit a day, I do good to get 2 down. I need to get better about eating veggies again, and I will eat the ones that I like, even if they are imported from the Socialist State of Wisconsin! Hey, p1ke-1e! Have you read any of the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde? How about his Nursery Crimes books? Nothing to do with carbon footprints, but I'd love to know what you thought of them! http://www.jasperfforde.com/

Like you it is a tiny fruit.... I fell in LOVE with fresh blueberries last summer. I would eat them like others eat chips or popcorn. I would wash them, settle the kids in for the night and while I worked or played on the computer I would munch away. Trouble is, the winter ones that can be found are either way to high priced or just don't taste as good so rarely do I cheat. I wish I knew how to freeze them and have them taste as good.... And I do like my other berries too.... do you know that the red fruits are good for you? They are a natural pain reliever (for things like muscles and joints)There is a good excuse I mean reason, to keep eating them no matter the time of year.

Pike- Enter any US store at any time of the year and you'll find that most of the berries are from Mexico. Do I care? Not really. I live in a place that those items are not grown by seasonally and they are VERY expensive to buy when in season, though I do go to the farmers market between Aug-Oct. I am following the Atkin's diet right now and recently added berries back in as I've moved from Induction to OWL (On-going Weight Loss), and I have been buying blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries like crazy. A lot of it because our kids are following the same plan though they get the extra carbs from grains, and they love their fruits. My little ones would sooner have fruit and yogurt (they had it for lunch) then fried foods, french fries, or even mac& cheese. I had a leftover box of mac&cheese that I fixed for them last week and they never ate it. They picked at it, ate the meat out and then asked for berries. Personally, I think that a bit too much is made over the entire "buy local". We have to realize that not all places can grow the same foods. We have shorter growing periods in some places and we need to admit this. I think it is perfectly ok to buy from other places. The only thing I caution is that we try to buy those products that are fair trade. I have been joining some causes as of late to push harder to make all of our food products fair trade so that farmers in places that grow our lovely berries are paid as they should be. Of course that said it may mean I pay a bit more, but it's worth it. Namaste-Anora