Fruit Instead of Sweets? You Can't Be Serious!

I saw a recipe in the new Health magazine this week that looks delicious. You melt some dark chocolate in a bowl with a bit of olive oil. Then you dip some banana slices in it. Then you put some chopped almonds on them. Place in the freezer and enjoy once frozen. It will be a sweet/fruity treat.

You are my new best friend.

I eat fruit.... but I also allow myself a bit of candy or these amazing caramel wafers. I just watch my portions and only allow myself one or the other in the evenings. The fruit I eat during the day with my lunch, in a smoothie, or for a snack.

If I'm comparing an apple to a slice of delicious lemon cake, then I totally see your point.

However - there have been many times, definitely not this time of year but in the summer, when I pick up a slightly warm, juicy piece of fruit from the farmer's market and I'm eating it while standing outside in the sunshine, and it is at that perfect, sweet, flavorful stage, where I have honestly thought that there isn't a dessert in the world that could compare to that fruit, at that moment. I'm thinking of a firm, juicy peach or nectarine, or fresh picked raspberries, or a perfectly ripe mango.

But yeah...this time of year when all that's in my fruit bowl are hard apples, it isn't quite so appealing.

Sometimes when I am craving sweets and fruit just won't cut it I cook a package of sweetened instant oatmeal. Sure, it's not chocolate cake, but it's definitely sweet and desserty sort of, so it helps.

My name is Samantha and Im addicted to candy but I recently bought apples instead...

Ahhhh.. I experience this dilemma everytime I go to the store..
I don't see them putting fruit at the checkouts, they put all that delicious looking candy out there...
But I always buy the fruit instead and weep a little in my head

With every bite of my apple no doubt im thinking of a candy bar and sweet tarts. I pout when I eat fruit I dont see it any other way

Try a tablespoon of peanut butter with that apple and see if that helps...it makes my Granny Smith apples something to look forward to!! YUMMY!

Unless its vegan chocolate........fruits are so much better!

If I really want to have the chocolate or whatever badly enough, I'll just do it. I just make sure to split it with somebody else and only eat the recommended serving size. lol. That is usually a turn off. If I'm still willing to waste 300 calories on something as empty as 12 Doritos, then I just eat them because I must really really want the damn things.

However, if you live in an area with a good shop selling foreign snacks, There are these magic little snack bags of mixed nuts and deliciousness that are seasoned to be spicy. From India.... called.... Hairdems or something. They are a God send and usually squish any chip craving. I never even end up eating a full 50g.

Or pocky. It's chocolate. On a stick. One pack is about 190 calories and they satisfy.

When I decided I wanted to be healthier, I didn't say I'd break up with junk food so I've been digging around to find better options of the same or similar things. Like chocolate.

I find North American snack foods to just be the devil though. We like it bad here. lol

This sounds like a quite from my childhood....

The answer to the question "whats for dessert?" saw usually met with "fruit or yoghurt"....

My favourite 'candy' is peas from the pod, but they have to be from your pea vines because they aren't anything like as sweet when they have been picked for an hour or more......."country boy's sherbert".

And yes, my wife thinks I'm nuts re: the pea thing, but they really are that sweet.

What happens to me is that I'll have the fruit "instead" and then half an hour later I'll give in and have the sweets too. :blushing:

Oh man! I'm glad I'm not the only one!