This weekend, our local apple orchard opens! This brings an enormous amount of pleasure to my family. Some of our best memories are of tasting the apples fresh off the trees, riding in a hay wagon to get out to the orchard, petting the farm animals, looking around at the brilliant colors of the trees in the background. If you are lucky enough to live where you can have an apple-picking experience, please do it! If not, then be sure to start paying attention in the grocery store to the apple selection. Try different ones. Make note of your family’s favorites.

• Caramel Apples – try Family Fun‘s bite-size version.
• “An apple a day keeps the Doctor away.”
• Johnny Appleseed – What a great story for children and adults alike.
• Applesauce – Great in food or by itself as a snack or a side dish.
• An apple for the teacher.
• The ultimate portable snack. Just wash and go!
• Discoverer of gravity – With a little help from Newton.
• “You’re the apple of my eye.”
• Bobbing for apples – I would try the apple hanging from the ceiling version.
• Apple crisp, apple strudel, apple cake, & best of all, APPLE PIE.