Ditto that !
I buy Gala apples for eating out of hand and for fruit salads. They have a nice flavor and texture...actually the best eating type of all the multitude of today's crappy apples. Wrap each tightly in the sticky-type saran and store in your bottom hydrator...and they will stay perfectly for a goodly number of days.
Also, I pay a little more money to purchase organic bananas. I don't throw bananas away any more.....so I actually save a lot of $$$ in the long run.
I only buy two or three of the organics at a time...even when the peel is somewhat green you can eat them right away. They last and last, and are still good even if the peel looks a little mottled after a while...and they're not riddled with mushy black spots when you buy them, like so many regular bananas are. Regular bananas have a very short fruit-bowl life the minute you get them home.
Bon apetit....Leni/MinuteGal
Am a Gala apple lover myself. In the winter months up north in IL (I’m in FL now), where nary a good tomato was to be found, I would buy a package of cherry tomatoes, slice or chop them up using the juice produced also, and pour Wishbone Robusto Italian dressing from the bottle (it has to be Wishbone Robusto; can get it online at Walmart’s) over the chopped cherry tomatoes.
You can add chopped onion or other veggies to the mix if you like, but as they will change the taste slightly, I’m a purist and prefer to just use the tomatoes and dressing. Use this as a side dish, or it goes wonderfully as a topping on any deli meat sandwich (best w/deli meat on French or Italian bread, or a sub bun, but would work with most any bread). You can use small pear tomatoes too; however I find the Cherry tomatoes more flavorful.
Also wonderful as a bruchetta topping on toasted garlic bread. This concoction got me through many a rotten IL winter, until late spring arrived and the local Farmer’s Market reopened. Will be using this down here in FL too, as FL has lousy super market tomatoes. Bon Appetit!