To get a fruit bowl

[ParadiseLaundry]

Basically so the kids can help themselves to fruit as they can't reach up to the fridge and their constant demand for snacks is driving me mad!

I remember having one when I was little and it was great for helping myself to fruit and for letting fruit ripen.

But I also remember mealy apples and mushy grapes and fruit flies in the house.

Also, are they a bit naff? I've never been to anyone's house in the last 20 years who has one.

@sleepyhoglet

Also way way to extravagant in cost but how elegant is this fruit 'bowl'

https://www.oh-so-pretty.co.uk/store/p44/largeabstractbowl.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwsNiIBhBdEiwAJK4khlsms8LKJQCG_cvBwDTAUafxUL-MxY0dp86mx6dPxy-ZMdt2V410BoCfQkQAvDD_BwE#/

That is beautiful. I would give it about 30mins in our house before the kids started using it as a see saw

@HalloHello

Golden delicious are always rubbish apples to be fair.

We have a fruit bowl, keep all fruit in there except berries and grapes.

That was my suspicion actually but I think I associate fruit bowls with crap apples and the association is hard to shake!

I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t have one…

How can fruit bowl be out of fashion! Granted the Doily, tablecloth and bowl of Pauline Fowler might not be popular but so many things you can use now. Mine sits in blue metal colander as colour matches my kitchen.

A fruit bowl is good if you eat enough fruit to justify one. Are they wanting constant snacks because of boredom? Even constant snacking on fruit isn't good, or allowing boredom eating.

Of all the things to have to turn to the internet for advice for!

@ParadiseLaundry

We keep apples, pears, grapes and soft fruit in the fridge and bananas and fruit that needs to ripen like nectarines and avocados on the bench, which looks bloody messy when I think about it so I don't know why I don't already have a fruit bowl to keep it all together

Beginning to think me and all of my friends are weird for not having fruit bowls now!

Bloody hell. So you keep your fruit just lying about but need to ask if you're being unreasonable to buy a bowl to put it in?

No, you would not be unreasonable. I've never come across anybody thinking that a bowl to store fruit is naff. I thought most people had them.

If you have a fruit bowl you need a stunt pineapple.

@ParadiseLaundry

Do apples keep ok out of the fridge? I remember horrible rubbery golden delicious apples from the fruit bowl when I was a kid but that might be because fruit used to hang around longer in the 90s.

Yes, apples will be fine. Just don't have too many out all at once. I tend to put out two packs of 6 and they are fine. Eaten before they go wrinkly.

Why would useful things like fruit bowls go out of fashion? I love my fruit bowl - it was my late mum's, heavy crystal, and it brings me joy every single day.

Mind you, I also have net curtains and wore a fascinator to a wedding last week so I'm clearly on the wrong site.

@Ninkanink

It’s actually not great for your children to help themselves to fruit all the time. Much better at mealtimes.

But that’s beside the point really.

Nothing wrong with a fruit bowl.

From a pragmatic point of view can't see why not.

Better than not eating fruit at all, eh?

@yourestandingonmyneck (love your username btw) I know, it's so ridiculous when I type it out

They are healthy, energetic kids who are a healthy weight (you can see their ribs as per the Mumsnet requirement for being a healthy weight as a child) and they have perfect teeth. There's no reason for me to think they are just eating out of boredom. It's more like if I've just made them sandwiches etc then they're asking me for fruit 5 mins later. Obviously most people seem to have fruit bowls so kids helping themselves to fruit must work for mist families. When I think about it the place where I keep the crisps is within their reach but they very rarely help themselves to crisps.

@AlfonsoTheMango

If you have a fruit bowl you need a stunt pineapple.

of course!

We have always had a fruit bowl, my mum has a very extravagant crystal bowl but ours is a stylish wooden bow. Apples, oranges/satsumas, pears, peaches, plums and bananas in there, and berries, soft fruit, melon and pineapple once sliced goes in the fridge

@ZittiEBuoni

Why would useful things like fruit bowls go out of fashion? I love my fruit bowl - it was my late mum's, heavy crystal, and it brings me joy every single day.

Mind you, I also have net curtains and wore a fascinator to a wedding last week so I'm clearly on the wrong site.

Ooh, we actually have one of these in the cupboard and I forgot all about it. We inherited it from an elderly aunt, along with a beautiful set of crystal wine glasses that I adored but clumsy DH managed to smash them all within about 6 months

I'm going to get it out!

@CrazyOldBagLady

Of all the things to have to turn to the internet for advice for!

It was just a lighthearted conversation starter, I was just curious to see what everyone else did.

I’ve never had a fruit fly ever. We dump a whole weeks worth in at once.

I've never been to anyone's house in the last 20 years who has one.

Whereas I think I would struggle to think of a house I've been into which doesn't have a fruit bowl.

I much prefer fruit at room temperature.

I have an Ikea glass one.

We have a bowl for bananas and a fruit basket for apples oranges and pears

We keep all the berries/melon in the fridge and some apples as my husband prefers cold apples but my 4 year old doesn't care they keep just as well in the basket but don't last long anyway

Why would you not have a place for your fruit instead of leaving it on the bench

Definitely have a fruit bowl. They do need to be policed - we have an odd issue here where satsumas are consumed constantly for a while then for some reason, everyone just stops eating them and they start to get sad and pathetic in the bowl. I can't figure it out. Then I stop buying them until DH buys some and the cycle starts again. Or there'll be one apple that for whatever reason no one wants to eat until eventually I toss it's sad wrinkly little ass in the food recycling.

Golden delicious apples can be amazing. But they don't travel or last well so in Cape Town, in season, they are the best apples you can imagine (also cheap as there's always a glut). But I have never bought them in England because I know they're always going to be disappointing.

@TheOrigRights

I've never been to anyone's house in the last 20 years who has one.

Whereas I think I would struggle to think of a house I've been into which doesn't have a fruit bowl.

I much prefer fruit at room temperature.

I have an Ikea glass one.

Ironically I prefer room temperature fruit too.

When I was a kid we also kept strawberries in the fruit bowl and as they were more of a rare treat they probably would have been eaten in a day or so before they went mouldy. Remembering to take strawberries out of the fridge before eating them is a pain.

I wonder if the peoples houses i go to have one but don't have it on display. I honestly can't think of anyone who has one.

I have mine on a cake stand looks pretty and stops fruit getting squished

@beigebrownblue

Teeth are easily damaged by the acid/sugar in fruit and this is exacerbated if it’s eaten separately to a meal. It’s also basically just straight sugar as far as the body is concerned (from an energy perspective), so if they eat fruit as a snack they will probably want more fruit or other snacks again soon after. ‘Better than not eating fruit at all’ is neither here nor there as fruit isn’t all that great from a dietary perspective anyway, other than berries - vegetables are much more important in terms of nutrients and should really make up the majority of veg/fruit intake. Of course children tend to prefer fruit so it’s easy enough to feel like you ought to be giving them loads daily or that it’s an ideal go-to snack. Obviously if the children are veg refusers it probably does make sense to offer a little bit more fruit.

However this is really all beside the point - I only mentioned it in case OP hadn’t considered that angle.

@ParadiseLaundry I use an old fashioned crystal bowl as our fruit bowl. It’s perfect and looks great in our kitchen.

@The3Ls yes I’ve seen that (not yours, I’m not spying on you ) and it’s a nice idea too!

A few years ago there was a whole thread about where you keep your fruit bowl
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3196131-Is-it-common-to-have-the-fruit-bowl-on-the-dining-table

So not the following are all class minefields:-

1. ownership of a fruit bowl
2. type of fruit bowl
3. contents of fruit bowl including stunt pineapple
4. location of fruit bowl

Other than that OP crack on - there is nothing to worry about

We do have a fruit bowl, in the kitchen, its a serving platter that gets piled up with fruit rather than a bowl. I have no idea what class this supposedly makes me.