Fresh Fruit Sandwiches

Our kids love this as an alternative to peanut butter and jelly. We use the agave or honey to make the fruit a little sweeter and it also helps the fruit to stick to the slice of bread on top.

Your favorite nut butter or sunflower seed butter

4 strawberries or 1 banana
2 slices of bread
Agave or honey (optional)

1. Spread the nut butter or sun butter on one slice of bread.

2. Cut the strawberries or banana in thin slices.

3. Arrange the fruit over the butter in one layer

4. Drizzle agave nectar or honey over the fruit.

5. Place the second slice of bread on top and cut sandwich in half.

Creamy Banana Ice

Ingredients:

2 bananas, peeled, sliced, and frozen for several hours
1 Tablespoon milk

 

Directions:

1. Place the frozen bananas into a food processor or blender.

2. Add the milk.

3. Puree the bananas and milk until they are creamy.

4. Spoon the mixture into bowls and serve right away.

 

Makes two servings.

 

Instead of bananas you could freeze mangoes, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, or whatever fruit you like. Just cut larger fruit into small pieces first.
Then place the fruit in a single layer on a dish that is freezer-safe. You could try mixing several kinds of fruit together. (Approximately 1 cup of fruit = 1 serving.)
Or to make this recipe into a yummy fruit-drink, add more milk. You can make it as thin or as thick as you want.

Cranberry Sauce

Try our take on traditional cranberry sauce and forget all the sugar!

 
Ingredients:

12 oz fresh or frozen cranberries

1 cup water

¼ cup orange juice

¾ cup Agave nectar

 Instructions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a medium sauce pan and bring to a slow boil.

Turn the heat down to medium-low and continue to cook the sauce slowly for 1 hour.

2. After an hour pour the sauce into a blender or food processor.  Blend until smooth.  Place in a storage container and refrigerate for several hours.  The sauce will thicken as it chills.

 

We like this cranberry sauce with Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

It's also very good as a dip for sliced apples!