How to seed a pomegranate minus the mess (well almost!)

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No, it's not chicken pox....

We love pomegranates in this house, so we eat them all year round.  11 months out of 12, and just because I'm such a sensible (read lazy) person, I buy the seeds in the frozen section and conveniently add them to oatmeal and cereals.  It's good stuff, plus such an easy and sensible way to eat what is otherwise a very (very) messy fruit.

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But, come on...  We all know that 'easy' plus 'sensible' equals 'mega boredom'.  A winning equation would be more like 'splashy mess' plus 'tough stains' equals 'fantastic fun'!  So, and just because I'm such a cool Mom and a huge fan of plastic body suits and painting sheets, 1 month out of 12 I buy the real thing and tell my peeps to knock themselves out while I proceed to clean red stains and mentally curse with a Latino smile (read scary grimace) on my face.

Toothless people love pomegranates ;)

In this episode of the Produce Picker Podcast obtained via Front Door Organic (Toronto), Ray the produce picker, demonstrates how to cut open a pomegranate and avoid the mess that can be associated with getting the seeds out. We tried it, and it's amazing!  I think, Ray's technique helped the kids reduce their mess by something like 75%.  I'll take that, thank you very much!  See my friends, adding an opportunity to play with water to any equation is guaranteed to result in a lot of fun, all Moms know that.

 

So bravo Ray, and many thanks.  We will now retire our plastic body suits to do some other cool winter activities around the house like body paint and Papier-mâché.  Because I'm such a cool Mom, I live for moments like that, don't you know?  And that big, fat, Latino lie will conclude this post. 

 

Off to write my Wednesday segment for RelieF: Taking the word 'Stress' out of 'Xmas'. Pomegranate Martinis, anyone?