Fruity salad
One of the benefits of being near the rainforest is the insane amount of fruit that is available. Fruit here is not only cheap, but there are just so many different varieties of fruits that I had never tried before. Since coming to Peru I have a new found affinity for pineapple. I have also discovered Lucuma, which is coined "the fruit of the inkas" and it is very good. It has this taste that reminds you of pecans and is used in so many desert dishes. There are also tons of bananas and some of the juiciest tangelos I have ever had. Basically, I am in a fruit paradise. The other day I decided to make a fruit salad so I went out and bought a whoel pineapple, melon, honeydew melon, batch of strawberries, some lucumas, papaya, and some bananas de isla (they sell about 4 different types of bananas here). Cut it all up into nice pieces and ended up with a HUGE bowl of fruit. I had so much fruit and still have so much that I have no idea what to do with it. SO pretty much for the past 3 days, I have been eating nonstop fruit salad with vanilla yogurt, raisins, and granola sprinkled on top. This will likely be what I eat for the next few days so I can go through the insane amounts of fruit that I bought, but you wont see me complaining.

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