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If you pick fruit...
la79al
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Like, if you go someplace that offers 'pick your own' do you let your kids eat the fruit while you're picking? We went for strawberries last week and I think I had the only kids that weren't eating as many strawberries as they were picking. Today we went for cherries and everyone was eating as they picked. We got some peas too and I'll admit that I had the girls try some to make sure they would actually eat them before we brought any home. It just feels like stealing to me but there were plenty of employees milling around and none of them said anything to the obviously covered in fruit juice families so maybe it's expected?
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Re: If you pick fruit...
Then again, we don't let him trample over all of the plants either. After we picked strawberries last year, the owner (it's a small place close to us) thanked us for not letting him trample on plants. Apparently there are a lot of parents who don't seem to notice/do anything about it.
Also, we usually just round the price up to the nearest dollar or whatever and tell them to keep the change to cover fruit that gets eaten.
I think they expect it. We went strawberry and sweet pea picking last weekend; there were 3 of us, and we each have one LO, and they were all munching. DS probably only ate a handful total though, it took him a little while to find them. When we got to the peas, I gave him a pod and he just kind of chewed on that the whole time. Dunno if peapods are bad on not....but I figured it couldn't hurt...
Anyway, all of the kids were pink from strawberries, and all of the staff never said anything, so I think it's completely normal!