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Tuesday's Tip: Making Good Use of Aging Fruit

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. —Galatians 5:22-23 There was a great segment on The Early Show this morning! Erica Hill spoke with Sarah Humphreys, of Real Simple magazine, about out-of-the-box uses for lemons. My favorite use was using a lemon as a party pick disposer. Watch the segment here,  New Uses for Lemons ,  for clever ideas on using lemons for everything from a non-toxic strain remover for cutting boards and laundry to helping keep your brown sugar soft. Lemons are one of the four fruits that we keep on hand at our house, along with grapes, apples, and bananas. Grapes, apples and lemons have great “staying power” and keep in the fridge a good, long while! Most of the time I buy apples and lemons by the bag, as they are usually less expensive this way. Generally, we eat most of the bag of fruit before it ruins. However, it seems we never quite eat