Medjool dates & fresh figs

[Catrin]

Oh man, oh man, oh man do I love dates. I just bought a pile at a roadside stand. I never seem to have a problem with them keeping. I use them as snacks on rides with walnuts or cashews. Sometimes smushed together into a sticky kind of bar, but most of the times separate. Dates are about 80 calories an ounce, so I have to watch how many I eat and those plump medjool dates really add up.

Yeah, and they are pretty high in carbs, but oh so good.

What had me wondering if they were prone to spoiling is the outside of them have little white specks, but that doesn't mean anything. I am sold on them though - so I have new fruit options to add to my apples, bananas and, best of all...BERRIES

Mimi, I wish you lived closer to me, I would LOVE to find out what figs fresh off the tree taste like! At Trader Joe's they were refrigerated...is that actually necessary or just their way of preventing them from becoming overly ripe?

Catrin the berry monster