Summer is hot, and sometimes it’s just hard to eat much. Staying hydrated and taking advantage of some of the fresher fruits is just one way to make your summer enjoyable.
Frozen fruit isn’t just for the blender to make yummmy fruit smoothies. Freezing bite-sized pieces of fresh fruits make for great snacks (and on really hot days, even dinner!) throughout the warm season.
Cut up watermelon, whole seedless grapes, peach chunks, raspberries.. the list goes on… place on a cookie sheet small enough to fit in your freezer – space the fruit so it isn’t touching and then freeze. I like to roll some fruits in sugar, like raspberries. If it sounds good, but you don’t want to use real sugar, you can always try one of the calorie free sweeteners like Pure Via or Splenda – I much prefer real sugar… just can’t get my taste buds to accept the other sweeteners.
I’m headed out to my dads to pick some fresh raspberries for freezer jam and frozen snacks… I just hope I manage to bring some home and don’t eat all those sun-kissed berries off the vine instead.
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Ohhhh you shouldn’t have – you mentioned food – now I have to raid the fridge. :)
Freezing fresh fruit also can save you big bucks when fruit isn’t in season – or even when it is. The other day I was looking in the frozen foods section to buy some mixed fruit for smoothies and the price was higher for the frozen fruit than it was for the fresh fruit – so by buying (or better yet picking fruit locally) fresh fruit when it is in season and freezing it for later you can actually save quite a bit of money.