Healthy Fruit Crumble?

1940sGal

So does anyone know of a way of creating a healthier version of the humble fruit crumble? Got loads of fruit in my garden and I'd hate to cut this lush desert out of my healthy eating, especially with autumn coming.

Also, anyone got any tips for what to do with Rhubarb that doesn't include sweetening it up with a ton of sugar?

PasturesNew

An oats based topping instead of crumble.... and add no sugar, or use that Splenda stuff.

Pennylane

I use the granulated sweetner for taking the sharpness out of rhubarb, apples etc. It tastes fine and I wish I'd done it years ago .... when I think of all that sugar I used to add!:eek:

nanto3girls

I always use artificial sweetner for fruit,for pies and crumbles.

pogofish

Make it the way you usually do and just eat it in sensible portions.

Sugar is in no way unhealthy in a normal balanced diet.

And rhubarb blocks calcium uptake so you can't be that concerned about health.

Blether

I try to avoid both sugar and any artificial sweetner. Have stewed rhubarb with other fruit in the past. Usually used apples that are past their best but can also used bananas that are starting to go spotty.

Fire_Fox

Replace the sugar with xylitol or stevia or sucralose, sweeten with raisins or other dried fruit. Some of the butter can be replaced with coconut oil, switch white flour for some combination of wheatgerm, rolled oats, barley flour or stoneground wholewheat flour.

pollypenny

Splenda, just a bit, and ginger with the rhubarb.

1940sGal

pogofish wrote: »

Make it the way you usually do and just eat it in sensible portions.

Sugar is in no way unhealthy in a normal balanced diet.

And rhubarb blocks calcium uptake so you can't be that concerned about health.

How patronising of you. And nice of you to assume i would know that. I didn't.

daska

Rhubarb curry goes down very well with everyone I serve it to. I know it doesn't sound promising but I promise it's worth taking that leap into the unknown.

I_wanna_live_for_free

I use honey to sweeten fruit once it's cooked and if it needs it
I do cook rhubarb with no added sugar or sweetener. I can't use Splenda anyway as it makes my heart race

Saying that I'll happily eat fruit that OH and DD make the prune face over as they think it's too sharp

I don't even sweeten custard