Incorporating FRUIT in your diet... tips and/or recipes?

This is berry season and they are in abundance right now. I really enjoy overnight oats and I don't even make them overnight to tell you the truth. I add my oats and throw in a small container of washed berries. Add my O Organic Unsweetened Almond-Coconut milk. Done.

Oooo, throw them on top of your salads. If you are adventurous, you can even add them to your omelettes. Ayup. Try it, you might be pleasantly surprised how good it is.

I'm not a big fruit fan either. I use frozen mixed berries in my smoothies to mask the taste of the supplements I add. They in turn I think cut the taste of the berries. Otherwise I can really only eat fruit with several liberal dashes of salt and tabasco.

I eat mostly dried fruits (generic Craisins, golden raisins, apricots, figs, apples). The best ways I use to eat them (other than as-is) are to put them in a salad and Greek yogurt. 30 grams of dried fruit is about 1 serving.

And it's okay to only eat fruits you like/tolerate. Also, you might be eating more fruit than you think since many so-called veggies are botanically fruits.

Toss some strawberries, blueberries or blackberries on top of your spinach salad with a bit of like feta or goat cheese. Delicious with a basic balsamic vinagarette dressing.

Mango, Mandarin orange slices, and dried cranberries are all nice additions to a boring salad.

I really like fruit salad, take a combo of pretty much any fruit you like, chop up in a bowl and let the juices and flavours mingle a bit before you eat it.

I eat a lot of fresh fruit. Eat them raw, don't cook them but do sometimes can them.

I keep them on my kitchen counter where I can easily grab one or in the front of a shelf in the frig (not hidden in a lower bin). This increases the likelihood that I'll eat them; out of sight out of mind.

Oranges, apples, pears, apricots, bananas and blueberries are my favorites. I also eat fresh pineaples when I can buy one for 98 cents at Sprouts like I did the other day and cherries when they are is season as they are now. Love raspberries and blackberries but they usually cost too much and don't keep that long.

Don't like strawberries that much because they rewuire too much prep and do not keep long. Don't like fresh peaches that much either but love them canned/bottled because they taste better to me that way. Plums and grapes aren't high on my list either. They keep well but just don't taste that great to me. I can take 'em or leave' em.

When it comes to grapes, I prefer to drink them fermented out of a bottle.

I am probably not a great help, because I love most fruits, except melons. I like to have a serving of fruit as the dessert in my lunches. I usually rotate between strawberries, pineapple, grapes, and mandarin oranges. Sometimes a mixture of berries and pineapple, fruit salads are my favorite when I combine sweet and tart varieties. It helps a lot if you track what's currently in season, I wouldn't bother with most fruit out their peak season, except maybe apples and oranges.

You mentioned smoothies, I really like medjool dates (enough that I cant be trusted with a full container), but I am not crazy for other varieties of dates. I learned this when I tried to buy a much cheaper option and couldn't eat them. They turned out perfectly good in a smoothie though, they add a caramel sweetness without overpowering everything else.

If you're able to get your produce at a farmer's market or otherwise directly from the grower, try that. I know not everyone can do this, but for some produce that freshness really makes a huge difference in flavor. Don't like apples? You might live near an orchard that grows a dozen different varieties, all with different flavors and textures (this was true where I used to live). Don't like berries? Compare a strawberry that was just picked that morning with one from the grocery store (this is me right now). I didn't like melon either until we started getting fresh watermelon in our CSA box.

Strawberries are my favorite! I sprinkle them with stevia and can eat 300 grams in a sitting, which is less than 100 cal. For apples I dip them in PB2 mixed with water. I put berries on my oatmeal and in my cereal too.

Didn't read all the comments, so this has probably already been suggested but I'm really enjoying fruits in my salads. Today I had grapes, strawberries, blueberries, apple and mandarin oranges (which I mash up to release the juice as a great low cal dressing) in my "big salad" for lunch.

I don't really like fruit so I don't eat it. I don't think (happy to be corrected) that there is anything I'd get from fruit that I don't get from vegetables and the rest of my diet.

Except mangoes. I could eat my weight in mangoes... Mango season I eat fruit.

You can get most of what you need nutritionally speaking with veg. Berries and cherries and other fruits are rich in anthocyanins which is a particular antioxidant that is harder to find in veg, but you can get it if you eat red beets, red cabage, red onion, and egg plant.

I'm not a big fruit eater...I eat more in the summer for sure though. I usually stick to apples in the winter and the occasional grapefruit. In the summer I enjoy a variety of berries and cherries and peaches, but I don't eat them in great quantity...usually a serving of fruit in a given day...occasionally 2. I get most of those nutrients with veg.

I have berries in yoghurt or cottage cheese some mornings. Find the fruit you like and have it in sight and available at all times, and make yourself a little snack rule that you'll have fruit first and then the other thing if you still really want it.

For me it's Pink Lady or Cripp's Pink apples, or Honeycrisp if I'm feeling baller. Pears, cantaloupe, sometimes watermelon, cuties or halos or whatever sweet little tangerines are around. Right now lychees and cherries, peaches. I get a punnet of strawberries every couple of weeks and always have blueberries, I occasionally try black and raspberries but they go bad so fast I'm meh on them.