Surprise Frozen Fruit

This weekend Hubby Tony and I traveled to the other side of the state for a fellowship business meeting. The actual meeting was all day Saturday and Sunday morning, but to make it easy we arrived on Friday night. The hotel room includes a small refrigerator, so I brought some breakfast food and snacks.

I've heard about some great breakfast restaurants close to the hotel, but that would require me to either wake up earlier or hustle to get out the door so I could be finished by the time the meeting starts. I much prefer to eat in the room so I can move slowly.

On Saturday morning we had overnight oatmeal (pre-prepped containers with oats, chia seed, raisins, and dry milk, then activated with water before bed and put into the refrigerator with raspberries mixed in at the last minute) and coffee from the in-room pot. When I pulled out the containers in the morning I noticed that the oats had a couple of ice crystals but the raspberries were fine, and attributed the issue to the fact that the containers of oats were on the top shelf of the refrigerator and the fruit was on the bottom shelf.

This morning's breakfast was prepackaged hard boiled eggs, grocery store muffins, oranges, and coffee. The eggs had been stored in the refrigerator door and were fine, but the oranges from the bottom shelf were downright frozen! We used a plastic knife to saw through the oranges and cut them into chunks. Tony chose to peel his. I just used my teeth to munch the fruit off the peel. The first few chunks were popsicle-like. As they unfroze the last few chunks were pretty mushy, but still tasty.

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