Jen's Journal

I have recently realized that both my longtime roommate and myself suffer from bananaism. We generally get struck on the same days with the symptoms. These include, but are not limited to:

1. purchasing large numbers of bananas
2. believing that we actually enjoy eating bananas
3. forgetting they ripen and turn black before we have any desire to eat them

About one week after we get hit, the aftermath begins. I relocate the fruit from our fruit dish on the counter into the freezer. This is a bad habit that I picked up from my Mom. The original idea was that the frozen bananas would be ready to make baking goods out of, however, in our case we have just ended up with dozens of black bananas sitting in our freezer door. This, (with good reason), drives my roommate insane.

Now not being one to enjoy wasting food I have started depleting the fruit by baking banana baked goods. Banana breads, banana cakes, banana muffins, just to name the dominant byproducts of our surplus. Recently I have mixed it up and the last batch of muffins was fantastic, (Jen's Banana Cranberry Muffins).

However, the true reason of this entry is to make public knowledge of the disease that is out there. It has the power to take over, not only your fruit dish, but your freezer door as well. It takes a strong person to pass by the 49?/lb produce and not purchase half a dozen. To fight this I have ?borrowed? a couple steps from AA and made slight modifications. Hopefully this will help any others who are being weakened by the starchy yellow life destroyer.

1. We admitted we were powerless over bananas ? that our lives had become unmanageable.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all, (this does not mean baking them a banana loaf).
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong in purchasing more bananas promptly admitted it.