Over-ripe fruit

[~ Wonderful Life ~]

We seem to go through spurts where we don't eat all of the fruit before it gets too soft...and it just gets trashed.

Any ideas about what to make with over-ride apples, banannas and blueberry's?

Thanks!

[ollyoxenfree]

Do you have room to freeze the bananas and blueberries until you can use them for baking?

It's pretty easy to chop the apples up and make a quick applesauce with them - and freeze that if you don't want to eat it right away.

Banana muffins, banana bread, blueberry muffins, add blueberries and apples to oatmeal...

[mamatoablessing]

Cut the fruit into bite size pieces and then freeze. I love using over-ripe, frozen fruit in our smoothies. Also for baking.

[Storm Bride]

Smoothies and baking (muffins, banana bread, etc.) are the first two that come to mind.

[Sol_y_Paz]

cut and freeze for smoothies

[~ Wonderful Life ~]

I hadn't thought of freezing for baking later on...

Thanks for the ideas!

[Ravenlunatic]

I also do the chopping and freezing thing. My DD loves a bowl of frozen fruit to chomp on and also I blender it all together, add a little friut juice and make freezer pops.

[Ola_]

I don't like browned bananas so they usually get tossed in the freezer for banana bread or smoothies (they help make them nice and creamy). It's nice that you can just toss them in there whole. Blueberries I'd probably freeze on a cookie sheet and then transfer to a ziplock bag or a container so they don't stick in one big lump. I love these for mixing into muffins and on top of breakfast cereal/oatmeal.

Apples I would probably peel and chop and make into applesauce (either on the stovetop or in a crockpot if you have one). I hear you can also make this into apple butter if you keep cooking it down, but I haven't done it myself.

[*bejeweled*]

Smoothies!

[gardenmommy]

Freeze (berries, bananas, etc.), bake (bananas, apples, berries, pears, etc.), or smoothies.