How can I incorporate fruits into my diet

there is no rule that you have to eat fruit to be healthy. if you dont like it, dont eat it.

but if you don't like an apple with peanut butter smeared on slices, then you are whack! lol

Do you have a juicer? You could experiment with fruit/veg mixes.

Fruits turn into sugar. Take vitamins and supplements and drink lots of water and make sure you get calcium somewhere in there.

Exercise at least 15 min a day, for three to four days out of the week and you can eat most the stuff you want, just in moderation.

Losing weight doesn't have to be the end all to eating what you want. Just have to take what others have experienced (which is what I did) and use it.


katie

Banana "Ice Cream": Freeze banana slices and then process them in a food processor until smooth. Voila! Ice Cream!

uhh....she said she hates bananas

-Fruit smoothies - blend some fruits (berries are nice) with plain or vanilla low or no fat yoghurt
-Chocolate fondue? (use dark choc, it's actually good for you (within reason!) and tasty for dipping)
-finely chop apple or pear and mix it in with your porridge/cereal
-drink fruit juice
-apple puree is nice mixed with potato puree and/or carrot puree
-try dried fruits, they're sweet and full of goodness, especially to combat sweet cravings. Raisins or apricots are great for that!
-low cal baking? low cal apple or berry crumbles?

Hope some of these help. Also, if you try fruit again and again you will develop a taste for it and probably learn to like it.

best of luck!

I would never have survived my diet change without fruit! Smoothies is a great idea. Also, if you have a food processor and puree them, then you can easily add it to batters or oatmeal, etc. Another idea that I know people have done is to buy baby food fruits, which is similar to puree without the work.

Best of luck. I'm impressed that you are doing your best to find ways to incorporate fruits in your diet! They are truly nature's nutritious sweets!

smoothies............:bigsmile:

Banana "Ice Cream": Freeze banana slices and then process them in a food processor until smooth. Voila! Ice Cream!

uhh....she said she hates bananas

I loathe bananas too but I love smoothies and milkshakes with it in. Tastes different!

Banana "Ice Cream": Freeze banana slices and then process them in a food processor until smooth. Voila! Ice Cream!

uhh....she said she hates bananas

I know, but some people can't even tell that this is made with bananas! Especially if you add cocoa powder and peanut butter. Yum

If she doesn't want to try it, no harm done. Sorry!

I fully intend to try that thanks! pb/banna/ chocolate ice cream.. yummmy!

Fruit "sauce" - peel / chop / core whatever fruits - put in pot, add just a bit of water - cook over med heat until tender - either mash or puree - good either warm or refrigerated.

The best way to have fruit, other than whole, blend it or use a juicer. taste fab.

Fruits...bah, almost as boring as vegetables.

My somewhat hard-nosed way of getting fruit into my diet was giving up all sweets. I mean, even fake sweeteners. It's made fruit a lot more appealing when I have a sugar craving, which is pretty much all the time.

Otherwise, eat the fruits you like. Like others have said, you don't have to eat fruit to be healthy.

i'm allergic to most fruits. all rock fruit (peaches, plums, cherries, etc.) and apples, pears and that type of fruit. i didn't become allergic 'til i was about 14, and i used to love to eat them. now i sometimes eat dried fruit, but mostly i don't eat any. i miss it, but somehow i survive with out eating much fruit.

if you don't mind the texture of citrus, (which i am not allergic to) pineapple has almost the same texture i feel.

i don't have any amazing recipes to 'hide' fruit, but i guess i'm just saying you can live on a diet with out it.

Fruits turn into sugar.

Not exactly. Fruit has sugar in it, but not granulated sugar that is calorie dense and completely lacking in nutrition! Fruit's sugar is fructose, it's more complicated, takes more energy for the body to use. It's a better source of carbohydrate (which is starch, all of which turns into "sugar") than, say, pasta. Plus, you have to have carbohydrates, that's where energy comes from. In addition, fruit has fiber and vitamins and minerals, plus it's interesting to eat, just just have to find some you like, and ways that you will enjoy it. If your goal is to stay healthy, fruit's important, along with vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and healthy fats, and I applaud your wanting to figure out how to eat it.

Take vitamins and supplements and drink lots of water and make sure you get calcium somewhere in there.

Again, I respectfully disagree. It is never, ever better to get the nutrition you need from manufactured supplements. Who benefits most from us using supplements are the people who make them and the people who sell them. Supplements are never pure, they have other stuff connected to the material you are trying to eat, and it wasn't put there by Mother Nature, so no telling what it's going to do once it's inside you! You are absolutely right to want to eat the real thing, even if you don't like it!

Exercise at least 15 min a day, for three to four days out of the week and you can eat most the stuff you want, just in moderation.

Again, I beg to differ. If I ate most of the stuff I wanted, it would be tiramisu, lasagna, spaghetti, cheese anything, cheeseburgers, fries. I know these things are "slippery slopes." Exercising 15 minutes a day, 3-4 days a week is not going to burn off the thousands of calories we can potentially put on just eating in moderation. If you want to lose weight, you have to decrease your calories, eat balanced, exercise enough so that you use up more calories than you take in!

There are a lot of different fruits and as many different ways of seeing if you might like them. Incidentally, I don't like bananas either. I have eaten them occasionally, but generally, ew. And frozen? No way. In a smoothie, I don't think so. If I wanted to eat a banana, I'd eat a banana!

You mentioned grapefruit. Check out a fruit called pomelo. Sometimes it is spelled pumelo. It looks like a grapefruit, isn't quite as juicy (so not at as messy). You peel it like an orange--make a cut in the thick hide and pull it off, or you can cut it off with a knife. The white stuff is not very tasty, but if you like it, it has loads of minerals and vitamins and FIBER!! I used to eat it as a kid, now I pull it off and give it to the dog, who loves it. The actual flesh of the pomelo is inside the same kind of membrane as a grapefruit, but you can open it and take out the edible part and eat it with your hands. Very clean, very neat, and not bitter like a grapefruit can be. It is wonderful without any sugar or other sweetener on it. I think you'll like it. One probably will give four servings, but (being portion control damaged, myself), I usually eat the whole thing at once.

Kiwi. Probably one of the very best fruits you can eat, the paper thin skin comes off by rubbing the edge of a spoon on it, then lifting it right up and off. You can slice it, or, just eat it.

What about dried fruits? There are some new freeze dried fruits that are amazing. I mentioned I don't like bananas either? I liked them freeze dried. I also enjoyed freeze dried apples and berries.

Speaking of berries. All kinds of them are pretty tasty, but if they aren't appealing fresh, try them dried and add them to other foods, like oatmeal. They are also interesting in yogurt (although I like mine plain, frankly). You can also cook dried fruit into rice and grains. AND, if you like curry, you can add fruits with that, like on the top. In Indonesia, that's (sort of) "rice taffel" (aka "rice table").

I don't know if this helps, but I have my hat off to you. I spend a lot of effort focused on what I don't like and don't want (mostly exercise!). You are focusesd on how you can learn to change so you like something you know is good for you.

You're a good role model! Good luck.... :flowerforyou:

<Gollum> They are sweet, they are juicy, they are nice. Eat them! EAT THEM!!!! </Gollum> Is there really more to it than that? <Samwise> Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. </Samwise> Put grapes on salad...a banana sliced up on toast with peanut butter. Wrap an apple in bacon. We all know bacon makes everything better.