Each week, we'll be offering original recipes and unique ways to use those Super Foods that pack nutritional power. After all, you are what you eat -- make it count!

I have pineapple on my mind because we just happen to have a fresh one in our house. It's been sliced and diced into nice little squares, and it sits in a Tupperware bowl in our fridge right now. My boys and I are happy to have this juicy fruit during a time when all of our favorites -- strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, watermelon -- are disappearing from the grocery store produce aisles. It's a great fruit for many reasons -- it's super for nibbling, super if you're in a pinch and need to grab a quick bite, super for school lunches, and well, it's just plain super.

Pineapple is a Superfood because of its healing power on the joints. A top source of bromelain, an enzyme that helps support joint health, pineapples have anti-inflammatory properties that can alleviate osteoarthritis. Bromelain also cleans up dead cells after injury, helps reduce inflammation related to asthma, and even inhibits the growth of malignant cells in both lung and breast cancer.

Convinced you need a little pineapple in your life? Here are some tips on how to slice one. Prefer video instructions? Click here. Then visit the links listed below for a few healthy pineapple recipes.

Tropical Mango and Pineapple Paradise Salsa

Hawaiian Plantation Iced Tea

Grilled Pineapple

Healthy Pineapple Bars

Pineapple possibilities are endless. You can add it to your fruit salads, skewer it on your kabobs, and stir it into marinades and tenderizers. You can even gut it -- make sure you eat the insides, of course -- and use the skin as a serving bowl. The list goes on. And so does my taste for this sweet treat. I'd go get some right now but my little boys have polished off our entire bowl. Back to the grocery store for us. Here's hoping there's at least one pineapple left on the shelves.