Posted on 07/11/2009 9:24:53 PM PDT by doug from upland
funny cuz Bill Clinton thought popping cherries helped him survive all his traveling to foreign counties.
And here’s the perfect place to get all your cherry supplies: http://www.cherryrepublic.com/ The ballentines are the best, especially with a little chocolate! (Whoopeee, the Cherry Festival is over, all the fudgies can go home now! But the fireworks were awesome!)
Cherries are darned expensive. Much cheaper just buying melatonin pills.
Yep you can buy Melatonin in pill form (OTC) works just as well.
Interesting. So I wonder how many cherries would equal, say, a 1 mg tablet dose.
Know what they call the Parade of Vestal Virgins? Cherries Jubilee.
Messsenger to the Aztec King: Sire, we cannot have the parade of vestal virgins. King: Why not? Messenger: One is sick and the other refuses to march alone.
They are definitely pricey.
I’m (should say was) a very restless sleeper but I don’t really suffer from classic insomnia. I’ve been taking melatonin pills for about nine months and they are wonderful.
But where's the nutrition of the cherries? The fun of chewing them? the fun of spitting the pits? Cherries are MUCH more fun than pills!
Next week I’m planting two Montmorency cherry trees. These are the full size trees that reach 25-35 feet. Production begins in 3-5 years. I will stay awake until then . . .
I need to remember this. Thanks.
Of all the natural remedies I’ve tried, meletonin is one of the few that actually work.
Thanks Doug. So happens that I have Bing Cherries on my shopping list.
I’ve never understood this jet lag thing but i’ve only been from coast to coast and it never affected me in any way.
I would never do that to my fellow passengers.
your so right about the price, but I broke down and bought some this week. I could not sleep last night, got up read some more FR and ate a bowl of cherries. Slept like a baby, lol. Strange this is the subject tonight.
Ambien works just as well, however, Ambien is a prescription drug and is addictive. How do I know … I was addicted to Ambien for years. My doctor started me on OTC melatonin and with the exception of the Ambien buzz, it works just as well and is not addictive.
There is one little freezer bag full of pitted cherries from the new trees which fruited earlier this summer their first year for me. Now I'm fighting to keep the damage down from Japanese Beetles who love them. Luckily they fruited before the beetles reared their ugly nasty obnoxious selves this season.
So I sprayed with Sevin but we've been having a lot of rain, and it washes it off rendering it ineffective. So now I'm going to use something else that continues to work after a rain. When they get bigger, I'll have to cover them with netting. I had no problems with my North Stars, no Jap beetles yet in our area, and never ever sprayed; no matter how hard the winter, they produced well. I never worried about the birds getting some as there were always plenty left and some to share.
I tasted one of the Montmorency cherries and it was less tart than North Star and a little larger, but I wasn't that impressed with the flavor. North Star is really tart, and I dilute the juice some with water before thickening for pies, have to use plenty of sugar but I did with the frozen ones I'd buy as well. My those are expensive.
Turkey isn’t pricey and it makes your body produce more melatonin. Of course, PETA would prefer you eat the cherries.
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