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Have you ever seen the pre-cut ready to eat apple slices in the store? They are by the convenience produce, such as the cut up carrots, celery, broccoli and dip.  Now they have slice up apples ready to eat.  And yes they charge dearly for them.  I don’t remember how much the small bag was but I want to say it was close to $3.  The bag looked like it only had maybe one and a half medium sized apples in it.  This stuff is sold at a premium to those of us who are “in a hurry” and want to have something good to eat.

We as a society need to slow down a realize what we are spending are hard earned money on, take some time on a Sunday afternoon and bag some of these up and you have your pre-packaged convenience food at your disposal for the week.  Super easy to do and takes very little time here is what you will need:

• 5-6 apples
• 1 cup of lemon juice
• plastic bags or lunch containers to put your slices in
  

  

Cut apples in slices and soak in lemon juice for 1-2 minutes, take out and let dry, and put them in bags or containers, this process takes about 5 minutes of your time, pretty easy to justify considering it costs $3 a bag for about 1 apple in the store.

I buy my lemon juice at Sams club and it is very inexpensive, I use lemon juice when I can fruit to keep the fruit from turning brown.  The lemon juice does not add any lemon flavor to the apples.

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