SublimeSunday has Limes this Week!

Today is SublimeSunday - An excuse to post your random, creative or crazy ideas initiated by @c0ff33a, and so I have a post about limes today.

The joy of realizing we have the same word is overwhelming to me!

I have no idea where I took this first shot and why I use it so often. It's got lemons anyway and the fruit looks a bit past it's prime.

But I have used this shot for years in various posters trying to get unhealthy people to do better for themselves by adding some limes, lemons, oranges, kiwis or any other high Vitamin C food to their daily food.

Here are all the best places to get your Vitamin C according to a poster from Dietitians-Online.com.

It is basically a lot of different fruit, some veggies, and some seaweed.

This is all part of the @fitinfunfood plan encapsulated by the two theories of:

Eat Less Crap

Eat More Nutrition

In the case of limes, both sides of the equation kick in.

Here are some gigantic limes from the Coronado California Farmers Market, where I used to live and shop. I have been featuring this market for MarketFriday posts by @dswigle for the last couple of weeks and now this is a shot that missed the cut somehow.

Also seen are persimmons in the bins behind, and pomegranates to the left. Both of these are great sources of vitamin C, oddly missing from the chart above.

Here are some limes from Mexico by @bxlphabet. These were in his local Smart and Final In National City California and were at the top of the price window at 39 cents apiece.

These limes came from Tesco in Bangkok Thailand, where they do not grade fruit by size or shape or care if they look lovely.

These were all in the same little bag, and cost 10 thb for the pack. That is 30 cents. I'm showing them in my hand to feature:

• how small they are
• how unlike they are
• how not perfect they are

For my spoiled California self, the oranges and lemons are very sub-par in this part of the world.

SE Asian limes have all looked like the might not be good, but all have been delicious!

They are much stronger in taste than US limes (or Mexican) and are much easier to cut. Like this one artistically placed on a plate with my 60 cent Thai knife in the rear.

Now look! I squeezed it with my arthritic fingers. I look at this as a workout, but sadly, this is hard for me now.

And now the squeezed remains are in a cup, and I have already licked my fingers and hands (not shown).

Floating in water, the juice I did not get will be there when I drink this up. I have loved limes since childhood and this juice is not going to waste.

My photo skills astound again. It would be hard to get a worse crop.

But the blue makes me happy even though I am not sure why it is there.

The second lime has done its duty and now the remains are in the glass. The juice of two limes is in the plate.

From here I will just add food until a soup miraculously appears for a bad photo and a good meal.

You are seeing a bunch of cut up salad type food food with boiling hot water poured over it Since I was living in a hotel room with no cooking except a kettle at the time.

If you are going to cook with any Vitamic C food, add it at the end since Vitamin C breaks down in cooking.

The lime juice is in there, you just cannot see it anymore.

Eat Less Crap - Limes Edition

Wash your citrus in a solution of baking soda and vinegar. Use a food brush to scrub them. Citrus - whether organic or not as one of the "most dirty" fruit on the outside due to the roughness. Buy a vegetable brush if you do not have one.

Wash your citrus fruit once, and you will never not wash it again. Please leave me a comment when you do, so everyone knows I am not crazy.

Eat More Nutrition - Limes Edition

A lime a day keeps the scurvy and doctor away, unless you did not wash it first.

Here is a reminder of the 31 Essential Nutrients we are trying to get into our diets. One lime a day gives you 25-50% of your Vitamin C and 2-10% of your folate, so we have a ways to go.

Here is everything that The World's Healthiest foods has to say about limes if you would like more knowledge.

And here are all the benefits of limes according to a poster from TopHealthRemedies.com

Action Step

Go to the store or market where you live and buy some limes. If you get a lot, wash a few. If you get a few, wash them all. Then squeeze one a day into or onto something you later eat.

Done.

Do this for the rest of your life after that.

If you cannot find limes in your country get something else from the list.

Were already started eating greens this week.

How to Eat Greens

Please let me know how this is all going for you. Just with two small changes to your diet, you should be feeling better soon.

FYI to @c0ff33a:
This post is on my new blog, @fitinfunfood. If I post any window or sunset type posts, I will still be on @fitinfun, but my food posts have a new home.

Thank you so much for SublimeSunday. I love posting here :)

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