You Gotta Catch'Em All! Fruit-A-Thon! #MayTheFruitBeWithYou

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Just sit back and take a moment to think about this – We are living in a generation where kids are not aspiring to be engineers, lawyers or doctors, but Pokémon trainers!

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Yeah, does that hit you with nostalgia? Reminds you of a tiny version of you ensconced in a corner in front of the TV, avidly watching Ash, Brock and Misty out in the hinterlands chasing fictional legendary characters called Pokémon with nothing but a handful of red and white balls and a will to catch’em all?

Didn’t we all wish we could grow up to be a Pokémon trainer and go about catching them mystical creatures?

But alas, life happened and here we are staring at this post with an enlarged belly around the midriff and positively cursing our social life which made us turn from a skinny young teenager to a working individual battling it out in the real gyms to shed those fat pounds!

Although most of us are now way past our prime to catch’em all Pokémon (yeah that vicious circle of life, family, future blah blah blah!), we can still do something of the enormous pot-belly that our career has so graciously given us.

Ignoring junk food might be as difficult for you as it was for Voldemort to stop chasing Harry, but just by having this particular thing in your diet on a daily basis will not just help you shed that excess fat but also make you feel refreshed, healthy and fit. Sounds too good to be true?

Yeah, it is and this particular magical thing (pretty sure the title might have already given up the hint) is *ta dum diss* - FRUITS!

Don’t worry, this post is not at all yet another of those self-help posts which will make you feel dejected about your body, health, life, girlfriend, family, future, death etc. etc. There is no space for such kind of negativity in life man!

So this post is basically about how fruits combined with those cheesy pastas, yummy burgers and mouth-watering pizzas can do wonders for you!! Imagine having all of those high calories stuff (in limits of course) and yet not gaining weight? Don’t believe me, check out Jennifer Lawrence’s post on her fitness!

Coming back to the main topic, fruits are quite literally God’s gift to us. You want them vitamins, those fibers, the proteins? You have them all in fruits! But the perennial question has always been – Who’d eat that boring plain fruit when you have those amazing cheesy delectable dishes?

And to answer that right back at you, US Premium Agri Food in association with QuikRelations came up with this unique conceptual game called "Fruit-a-thon"!!!!

After the spectacular success of the first year, USA Pears and Washington Apples hosted their second Fruit-A-Thon this year. And the aim - devour delicious fruit recipes made out of those luscious juicy pears and apples and the team to finish it first over a competition of four rounds would be crowned winners!

So the competition was basically divided into 4 rounds, comprising of these gorgeous delicious dishes:

1. Shake It Up- A large jug of heavenly apple milkshake! No surprises here! Be the first to finish it and get your team to win!

2. Salad Salsa- A large bowl of apple and pear salad deliciously sinful you couldn't tell its healthy!

3. Dip-a-licious- Eat as many crackers with the creamy apple dip that will leave you wanting more...

4. Muffin Topper- Healthy apple cinnamon muffins that you can eat to your heart’s content without feeling guilty!

The best part – sinful as they sound and look, they equally killer in taste and healthiness.

So we had three teams consisting of four participants each participating in this unique competition:

The Team 1 aptly named themselves as the Fruit Kings.

The Team 2 sure were fans of the humble Nutella and so they called themselves the Fruit-Tellas.

The Team 3 surely were fanatic about them fruits and rightly called themselves the Fruit Maniacs.

Each round required one member from each team to participate in it. So essentially, at the end of the #USFreshFruitathon challenge, all the four members of the team have had to participate once each to gulp down recipes prepared using USA Pears and Washington Apples.

Muffin winner

Needless to say, the competition turned out to be an outright success. The participants, most of them falling in the age group of 15-35 were positively surprised that fruits of all the things, could be made to taste so delicious and mouth-watering. Who wouldn’t want them now if you are already getting them as tasty as those calorie-loaded junk food?

The Fruit-A-Thon proved to be a success, but more importantly, it left a lasting impression on the minds of these kids and adults alike, that fruits are perhaps not just the reason why we know about gravity thanks to Newton nor are they mere decorations on trees bland as them veggies, devoid of taste and flavor unlike meat. They are in fact those wonderful gifts of Mother Earth that can recharge your dead tired batteries, keep you fit as a horse and you might not even need to skip out on your desserts and junk food at all to remain healthy, wealthy and wise.

So, as they say and I quote,

Share a Fruit, Share the love! #MayTheFruitBeWithYou

Sources and Credits:
1. Fat Guy picture - http://thoughtcatalog.com/brian-n-gates/2013/07/21-fat-guy-fail-gifs-that-will-brighten-your-day/
2. Fruit Quote - http://www.pelfusion.com/healthy-fruit-quotes-for-health/
3. Jennifer Lawrence GIF - http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Best-Jennifer-Lawrence-GIFs-31123119