Fruit ideas

whizzing

What to do with left over banana, apples, oranges, tangerines???? Not necessarily all together!!!!!

dbt3mummy

Fruit smoothie?
Fruit cocktail?
Banana bread

lostinrates

Slice into a jelly when it's cool but not set.

Juice them.

Turn them in to puddings in to deserts.

Orange juice makes a nice light salad dressing just by itself IMO, and fruit like apples or pears are lovely in a salad, adding bite and sweetness.

Skint_yet_Again

whizzing wrote: »

What to do with left over banana, banana bread, banana ice cream (slice, freeze for few hours then blitz in blender) banana flapjack
apples, carrot and apple muffins
oranges, tangerines???? topping for cheesecake

A few suggestions from me

Kitchenbunny

whizzing wrote: »

What to do with left over banana, apples, oranges, tangerines???? Not necessarily all together!!!!!

Definitely try a banana bread if you've a mind to try some baking (though it does depend on how many bananas you've got left). Apples ... I tend to like making cinnamon apple muffins with these, or just chop and slightly stew the apples ready to freeze so you've an instant portion of stewed apples to go into yoghurts, custard, etc.

As for tangerines and oranges - all I can think of it juicing them for a nice drink. My other alternative is dipping each segment half into dark chocolate and letting it set for some fruity indulgence!

KB xx

meritaten

why not altogether? sounds like the makings for a lovely fruit salad! just add some Tropical fruit juice (and maybe a few grapes)!

angela30

i've got to get back into the hang of doing this myself lol it's been a while since i have had to think like this, and gosh i have really missed going through my old notes and folders,, i'm that kind of person that hates waste of any kind,

using up fruit in jelly's, stewberries, or any kind of berries, it doesn't matter how many are left in the bag but instead of binning them throw them into a jelly. or even any other fruit, the only thing i have found that doesn't work very well in jelly's is bananas. when i have tried it they turn black and not very nice to eat.

smoothies
You can make your smoothie stay colder and thicker by freezing your fruit beforehand.

When freezing larger fruits like bananas and melons you should chop them into pieces before freezing. you should spread the pieces on a plate or freezer sheet while in the freezer.To prevent the pieces freezing into one big lump, all berries can be frozen as-well and used in smoothies or ice creams.

cheats home made ice-cream.
any good but cheap ice cream. and a extra empty ice-cream tub.
blend your ice-cream until it starts going sort and add chopped berries, bananas, or any-other fruit and divide into two ice-cream tubes, this is great if you have a lot to use up before it goes bad. than freeze the two tubs.

coconut ice-cream, again cheap nice ice cream, can of coconut milk and coconut flakes, blend together and divide into two tubs.

if you make too much smoothie, instead of throwing the rest away you can make smoothie lollys.

oh yes. bananas.
freeze whole un-peeled bananas. just pop them in the freezer.
bring them out and leave for a few minutes, but down the skin and enjoy, its like having banana ice-cream without the cream, yumm lol

and the best cheats ice-cream, cheap ice cream, strong cold black coffee, chocolate ships or bottoms and chocolate sauce, blend all together and re-freeze, the best pick-me up lol..


the only thing i have found with smoothies is, you do need to add more than 3 different fruits but you have to find a balance with them. i've found that apple's and oranges dont work well, but that could just be me lol.

i used to buy and starting to get into the hang of buy fruits and berries from supermarkets that are about to go past their best, like today i brought 3 large boxies of strewerries for 25 p each there is'nt anything wrong with them, they are now in the freezer now lol

parkgirl

I always make banana bread with brown bananas. DD and I are allergic but DH and DS love it so I make it in bulk, slice it up and freeze in slices ready to pop into lunch boxes (nearly said bait boxes there - local word - and had to think what everyone else called it!! lol)

asparagus1968

great ideas! cheers

Boodle

Probably a bit late now, sorry, but...

I freeze my bananas whole in their skins for smoothies/milkshakes/instant ice cream when blitzed with ilk/adding to banana bread.

I freeze apples in chunks to add straight from frozen to crumbles etc.

I freeze oranges and lemons in wedges to throw into the jam pot or into casseroles etc from frozen. (some people use them as ice-and-a-slice in one.)

building_with_lego

My last lot of banana bread (made with nanas which were practically fermenting ) contained chopped prunes, raisins and an ounce of cocoa. It is "totes amazeballs", as Kevin Bacon says in that advert. It's how I'll make it from now on.