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You have to make a plea for fruit and then you can heal yourself. I guess it’s a way to keep you accountable — you can’t quietly just put yourself back to ten life points!

I can’t seem to find where to make that plea???

oh nevermind I found it

The site can sometimes be a little confusing — there are features I can never find no matter how many times I use them.

eu gostaria de saber jogar mais nao sei

eu gostaria de saber jogar mais nao sei

:-)

You can buy pomegranate juice, you know.
If you buy it from a healthfood store, you can get the real, unadulterated stuff. That way, you can fill your whole mouth with the taste, all at once. And over and over again. :-D

And there’s at least one version of pomegranate liqueur.
I think there’s a tart one, and a more sweet one.

Instead of cutting the fruit open, have you tried breaking open the peel, and then, manually and carefully, separating the sections?
The structure of it is really interesting, and beautiful.
… how the arils _{(wow, Susan knows the term “aril” already!)} are arranged in little compartments.

Enjoy your love affair!

I’m not sure if you could actually “marry” them, but I think you could probably come up with some ideas for, ummm, some other things you could do with them.
You know… like… on one of those days when the kids are all out of the house, say.

Eating them in the bathtub?

At some stores like trader joes and whole foods you can buy the seeds (arils?) all ready to eat. I shell out for that because I don’t like the work of getting them out. The easiest way I’ve found to do that is by doing it all underwater in a bowl. You score the flesh and kind of work them out with your fingers. They are delicious!

Sometimes Costco carries loose pomegranate arils, too.

Oh, and Trader Joe’s carries chocolate-covered ones!

:-D
Now where is Susan, with all this going on?

I suspect Susan is alone with her loose pomegranate.

…. lollll …..

Actually, I was at a family gathering without my essential phone. I had left it in the car. The gathering was a bday celeb for 24-year-old niece to whom I gave a …. Drum roll please … Pomegranate. I wrote a thing about how the pomegranate takes more work than, say, an orange, but has such an amazing payoff and then parlayed that into a wish for her to have beautiful, fragrant, wonderful, satisfying experiences this year. They asked me to show them how to open it so I did a little cooking show demo in the kitchen which was fun.

Mary Ann, what was it you were eating over yogurt or ice cream earlier in the fall?

EvaC that sounds wonderful!

I know, I know! (waves hand wildly in air) Blackcurrants!

Blackcurrants in their juice.
Comes in a big jar, imported from Poland. I’ve found it in only one grocery store, in a smaller city/town where husband’s mother lives, about 45 minutes from us in the major city.

:-D Eva.

I knew it was something exotic.

SUSAN,

I can vouch for it:
YES, you can DEFinitely marry a pomegranate!

And in other news:
This past week,
To two different parties,
I brought bowls of pomegranate seeds I’d extracted.
Some folk loved them, others cared not.

Not long ago,
I went online
to see if there’s a best way
to get to those juicy little devils
without destruction and mayhem.

I found:
Martha Stewart’s way
destroys the seeds and puts juice everywhere.

The underwater way
doesn’t really solve much of anything at all except that juice doesn’t get everywhere.

So far, the best way (although the video’s arrogant title says it’s the “correct” way… I think it just works best, for me)
and I’ve opened and eaten many, many, many a pomegranate, is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHbSzM63Hs

Wonderful video!
It shows the little sections and compartments!
And it keeps the seeds all nice and whole, and not dripping in water!

It’s great to know there’s a systematic way of doing this, that doesn’t wreak havoc.

Thanks, rachael! I guess poms and I are natural pals because that video is the way I do it! With the first one, my son’s girlfriend cut it in half horizontally and we dug out all the rails with spoons. Talk about a mess. I knew there had to be a better way. With each one, I enjoy seeing how neatly I can get them all out. Think I will try her tip about cutting the top though. I have been cutting too much off.

Susan – that was Brooke who posted the video.

Yeah, cutting the pomegranate right through is a travesty, IMHO.
Not to even mention the mess, when you butcher it like that.

I love looking at how the seeds are arranged, and all packed in tightly together – and that FABULOUS colour!
Opening it as in the video, keeps all that intact.

Brooke! I’m sorry!! My eyes were covered in pomegranate shaped stars as I admired your idea of taking rails to a party! Thank you, Brooke.

Arils, not rails. Helpful auto-incorrect always on the job.

Susan, I knew you were addressing my post… no worries.

Now, “arils,” is a new word for me and thanks for that.

Mary Ann, the lusciousness of the bursting red insides, the seeds just crammed in there… what stunning beauty, I so agree.

Oh good! I just love that.
And that transparent deep red….
….sigh….

You have to ask for it on the wall. I seem to recall it’s the button on the right? You post and then you can send it to yourself via the post.

“Add something to the wall” has a “plea for fruit” option.

And PLEASE do! The wheel has been randomly giving me bonus fruit, so I am eager to share before it all goes away at the end of the month.

Hee. It totally bothers me, and is something that I’ve seen come up on forums about this before, too—what happened to my lemon? Why do I now have a disgusting watermelon? Gross.

I know! This bugs me too. And I want to choose which fruit I use to heal other people.

oh, yum! I never thought of freezing them. thanks, Susan.

AH, yes, sounds very good! Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm, Susan! Nice to know how low cal they are, too!!

Oh, my dad told me the same thing yesterday! Except he said they went through 5-1/2 pounds of the things this past week and none every got in the freezer! They do sound divine.

I freeze grapes and cherries, and love to eat them. You know, Susan, when you eat those 110 calories, you’re not just getting carbs and vitamins, you’re getting a boost of high-quality hydration AND a powerful antioxidant punch (read: anti-inflammatory!) Keep up the great work :-D

MMT, I love frozen grapes too, and frozen blueberries! Love getting antioxidants in such a juicy, refreshing way.

Peaches, frozen blueberries, watermelon, raspberries, blackberries, oranges, apples, and an occasional banana.

You have to actually do a plea for fruit, then you have the option to heal yourself. Friends can heal a life point with 2 pieces, you have to give 4 pieces of your own fruit to heal 1.

Yay. I healed myself, and then was able to delete the request. I just wanted to make it through on my own through this last little bit.

I have a feeling I will be at the end of this week. :-)

Woid

I meant: void.
As in: say da void.

Okay, back to work.
Voik.

Sigh.

Jus’ zay da void an’ all da goils vill ged back to voik.

Perhaps gnot ALL da goils.

If only I gnu da gut voids fer ALL da goils….

Hi Shawn- You have to make a plea for fruit…then you can heal yourself. FYI…it takes four pieces of fruit to heal yourself for each Life Point, versus two pieces of fruit when healing someone else. :-)

WOrd or what Merrill said ;-)

Ok, will do!

And you can only make a plea for fruit if you’ve dropped below 10 Life Points.
Futhermore, you can use extra fruit and Life points to connect with players directly if they are hooked up to email (find that option to the right on the game wall.

Click on a players name an it will take you to their profile. You’ll see what I mean under the players picture.

fyi: more than 10 LPs don’t really count for wonderfulness. Less than 1 diminishes the team’s standings.

And now is a good time to invite other players to join our team if they are not already on a team.

You can! Just do a ‘Plea for fruit’ and then heal yourself – four fruit for one life point! :)

ah. ;)
Genius…. :D

Sure we could!

Ah, I can’t see any way to donate fruit to her at the moment. I think she has to make a plea for fruit first.

One cruddy sick week and all is lost :)

But I’m game for February, onward!

We pretty much shop for food as we need it and have a supermarket right across the road. I also don’t eat fruit as much as I should and often have to bin the last couple of bananas or lemons. Bad Jen.

You could try having some canned fruit in light juice for the end of the week? And snap frozen veges are apparently as good as fresh since they still have all their goodies in them :D

i get a bag of produce at the beginning of the week and then make a second trip on Wed or Thursday to pick up more for the rest of the week. Sometimes I buy enough for the whole week on the weekend but find that the fruit tends to spoil by the end of the week.

I do a once a week deal. Sometimes do a top up of fresh stuff from a local fruit shop. Otherwise, we always have canned fruit too. I end up not eating as much fruit as I could though!