Extra fruit portions...

noonesperfect

Hi is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

Winter fruit salad

To serve 4

6 oz / 175 g dried apricots
4 oz / 100 g dried prunes
4 oz / 100 g dried apple rings
1 dessertspoon honey
cinnamon to taste
4 cloves
1 pint / 550 ml apple juice or ½pint / 280 ml each orange juice and water
I oz / 25 g flaked almonds

• Soak the dried fruit in the fruit juice /fruit juice and water for 2 hours or overnight.
• Add honey and cloves and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 - 15 minutes.
• Sprinkle with almonds.
• Serve with low-fat yogurt.

Variations:

• Use dates, figs, raisins and sultanas and grape juice

noonesperfect

Sorry to person who originally posted this recipe. Instead of linking I've cut and pasted this from slow cooker recipe index........

just try cooking dried fruit salad ( prunes apricots etc.) in the slow cooker over night... good value from Holland and Barnett, they often have it on offer.
add cold tea, sultanas brown sugar, raisins, orange peel, ginger cinnamon stick great flavour even a dash of wine/ cider doesnt go a miss
Great favourite with everyone once they try it with good old custard, cream, ice cream or have it for breakfast yummy

I left this bit in seeing as it's that time of year....


I also cook my marmalade peel in the slow cooker saves watching the pot and as I leave the pith pips etc in the jelly bag dripping over night as well saves loads of time and I think it gives a better flavour

Wee_Bargain_Hunter

Is this allergy like when you eat pineapple and get a tingly tongue? Thought i was the only one till a girl in a shop said it happens to her too.
Re apple, i just cook mine with porridge in the mornings. Usually just put it in half way though to make it more 'gi' but ok to add it at the start too. I add cinnamon too. Also can add raisins, dates etc.

competitionscafe

Ben84 wrote: »

As for eating fruit, you don't have to if you don't like it. Vegetables contain all the same nutrients, so provided you eat the correct amount of them and try to eat a variety of different types, there is no problem. You certainly could eat all five of your five a day as vegetables for your entire life and be just as healthy.

Interesting article here which says:
"It's a myth that fruit is packed full of vitamins and minerals," says Tom Sanders, who is director of the Nutritional Sciences Division at King's College London. "The foods packed full of micronutrients are grains, seeds and nuts, the peas and things." Bagged salad? "It's mainly water. Dark green vegetables are a good source of some vitamins, such as vitamin A and folate, but lettuce hasn't got much going for it at all. The really sad thing is that we don't eat enough vegetables, such as cabbage, spinach and broccoli."
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2245266,00.html

boo81

Ive had the same issue, I generally eat a lot of veg but want to eat as much as possible. Ive started having a smoothie mid morning, I also either have meusli with lots of fruit in or reddy brek with grated apple and sultanas. Ive found some great bars in asda bakery which are cranberry, sultana and apple bars aswell. Ive previously had blueberries in my breakfast too which is nice.

If you like it you could also add fruit to salads. Any fresh juice counts as one portion but you cant get more than one portion this way.

For a desert I like baked bananas, you cut a slit through the middle lengthways, carefully not cutting through the opposite length of skin and put some choc drops in the slit. You can put on a bbq or cook in the oven and takes about 15 mins, just keep checking until the skin is totally brown and the banana is soft. Yumyumyum

noonesperfect

For those of you who are sensitive, it might be wise to avoid dried fruit with sulphites on the label. I think it's sulphites, something like that. Dried apricots (for example) that haven't had this used in the drying process don't look quite so ttractive, but might be safer for you.

daisyroots_2

Walking past my local Holland and Barrett (Holloway Rd) today I noticed they have a special offer on dried cranberries - 99p for a half kilo bag I think. I imagine other branches will have this offer - loads of vits in cranberries