Low sugar jam recipe?

sm1971

I usually make quite a lot of jam with various lots of free fruit I acquire, but as OH and I are now trying to watch what we eat, when I have bought jam recently I have bought the low sugar version or pear and apple spread, in a vain attempt to be healthier. Now I'm about to start foraging for fruit again, I wondered whether there was any way I could make home made jam healthier (and so my sweet-toothed OH will still eat and enjoy it).

Obviously I know it would be better for us if we didn't have jam at all, but with free blackberries, pears, plums and apples and only a relatively small freezer, what's a girl to do?! (and OH likes toast and jam for breakfast every day no matter what lovely alternatives I have that are healthier).

Thanks

joedenise

Would it work using granulated sweetner? Or maybe half sugar, half sweetner?

Denise

sm1971

That's what I wasn't sure about; didn't know if it would give it that bitter after taste that sweetner sometimes has or even whether it would set properly.

Might try though - thanks