"Candy"

First of all, let me just say: When you get free stuff, take advantage! I got a small box full of apples from my neighbor, who got them from our other neighbor's trees. Free. Today, I made almost three quarts of applesauce. It would have been probably four quarts, except I waited a tad too long and had to throw away five or six of the apples. To buy that much applesauce at the store would be at least $10. More if I bought organic and unsweetened, which is what I get as a result of canning my own. As I was preparing to make the applesauce, I had to peel and core the apples first. I have a peeler that I can mount on the counter that peels, cores and slices at the same time. It peels the entire apple in one long strip. Sarah was fascinated with the whole process and was helping me on and off throughout it. When I was just about done with the peeling, she asked me if she could have some candy. I said, "what candy?" because there wasn't any candy out anywhere. Pointing to one of the strips of apple peel, she said, "This candy. Right here." She was obviously pretending that the peel was candy. She knew exactly what it was because she watched and even helped me get it off the apples. I said, "Really? Um... sure, I guess you can have some 'candy,' but I don't know if you'll like it." But she did. She ate two entire apples worth of peels! I guess that's good, right? Isn't the peel where most of the nutrients are in an an apple anyway? Go Sarah! She's picky and weird in what she likes to eat, but pleasantly surprises me sometimes.