'Healthy' Apple Pie from scratch?

Take a regular pie crust recipie and make it healthy. Honestly half lard and half butter make the best pie crusts. I'm one who believes a little organic butter is healthy. Look for tenderflake lard with no transfats. There is a trick to making good pie crust. Everything must be cold. Cold flour (did I mention to use whole wheat? Whole spelt flour, whole wheat or whole wheat pastry flour), frozen butter/lard, ice water. It will take a couple of hours to make good crust. Take your frozen/cold flour, use a cheese grater and grated in your frozen butter/lard and then smoosh with your fingers to get a mealy consistancy, have some cold water with ice cubes and add 1tbsp at a time and only add enough until the dough comes together, just mix it until it forms a ball and don't try to blend all the butter or lard into it, shape into a disk and wrap in plastic and put in the fridge for an hour. After an hour place the disk of dough in between two sheets of wax paper and roll to the size you need for your pie plate, you want it big enough to have some dough hang over the sides. After you roll your dough keep it in the wax paper and put it back into the fridge for another hour. After an hour take it out, take one piece of wax paper off and put it in the pie plate, the take the other piece of wax paper off (and the pie plate should have been put in the freezer so it's also frozen). Put the unfilled pie in the freezer until you are ready to fill it. The reason for the everything to be kept frozen and cold is so the butter/lard stays in chunk form in the dough and as it melts in the oven it will form layers and make the crust lighter and more tender. Frozen dough will not shrink down the sides of the pie plate. Be sure to poke the crust with a fork before filling it.

I like to use just apples, a little sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and a sprinkle of tapioca. That's it. I slice the apples and mix it all together then put it in the pie plate. Sometimes I do a crumb topping and sometimes another crusts. If you put a top crust on then make sure to poke hole in it for the steam to escape, and sprinkle it with a little sugar.

Here's my apple crisp recipe:

Apple Crisp
This quick and easy dessert is very low in sugar and contains lots of fiber.

6 cups peeled, cored, and sliced apples (6 to 8 apples)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon water or apple juice
1 tablespoon maple syrup, brown rice syrup, agave nectar, or honey
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Topping:
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup wheat germ
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
4 tablespoons unsalted butter or oil
3 tablespoons maple syrup, brown rice syrup, agave nectar, or honey

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly oil an 8- or 9-inch square baking dish. Toss apples with lemon juice, apple juice or water, sweetener, and cinnamon. Spread in bottom of pan.
Mix oats, wheat germ, nuts, spices, and salt in food processor with metal blade or by hand. Heat butter or oil and mix with sweetener until smooth. Add to oat mixture and stir until completely combined. Cover apples with topping. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden. Serve with your choice of topping (page xxx).

Makes 9 servings

Variation: Use pears, peaches, plums, or a mixture of fruits instead of the apples.

I make my crust differently.

2 cups ww pastry flour
1 cup cold shortening (whatever you use, vegtable shortening, lard, butter, mixture of something...I tend to go 1/2butter 1/2 vegtable shortening because I don't like the smell of lard)

1/2 cup BOILING water

Mix together with a pastry mixer ( not sure what it's really called but it's that thing with the 5 wires held in a semi-circle by the handle)

once it's all mixed cover it and let it chill in the fridge for at least 2hrs (I do it overnight)

It turns out light and flaky everytime and you don't have to worry about overworking the dough and making it tough. This will make 3 single crusts

My filling is

5 cups peeled sliced apples
3-4 tablespoons warm honey or maple syrup or until the apples are coated.
and shake the cinnamon in until it looks like enough LOL
and a little bit of flour.