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I'm Getting A Little Worried ...

Hi everyone,

I am finding myself for the first time since adopting a fruit based diet legitimately struggling with what to eat. Here on Crete the fruit options are very limited this time of year because there's very little imported stuff at least in my rural area...(bananas are all Dole which I don't enjoy the taste of, and tasteless mangoes from Brazil.)

For the last 2 months I have been enjoying delicious local bananas which I buy direct from the vendor at the farmers market for 1€/kilo because they are a little split or "imperfect-looking", however he told me yesterday that he's not going to have any more of those now and very low supply of the regular ones for the next 2 months at least. The regular ones he is selling for 2.50€/kilo which I feel is a bit high with the quantities I would be wanting to eat. I already asked him if he would give me a discount and he said no because he has such low supply right now. Then of course there's tons of delicious local citrus right now which I am eating for 1 and often 2 meals every day. I feel that I do need to have at least one meal of denser high calorie fruit though, and I'm not sure what to do about this banana dilemma. Another option could be apples and dates but organic dates aren't available here and I'm not sure if eating lots of dates every day would be the best for my teeth. I would really much prefer to stay raw over the next 2-3 months but another "last resort" option I thought of could be having citrus for my first 2 meals of the day and then a partially cooked dinner with sweet potatoes as the main calorie source.

Another part of me wonders if it would be better to take a little trip somewhere close by for the next couple months where I could have better access to a wider variety of fruit...Canary Islands or North Africa maybe?

Anyone have any advice for me? What would you do in this situation?

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