My kids love fruit. Every morning for breakfast they're either eating strawberries, bananas, blueberries or sliced apples.  However, I realized one fruit conspicuous by its absence from their diet: pears.  We don't eat oranges regularly but we drink orange juice daily.  We never eat apricots but we love apricot jam on a toasted bagel and applesauce with apricots.  When watermelon is in season we eat it cubed or in an awesome watermelon, mint, feta salad.  When did pears become so elusive?  I think the last time my kids had pears was when … [Read more...]