Adding fruit

[Sera]

Well, I've come to the point where I think I'll add some fruit back into my diet.
I'm not really a big fruit fan when it comes to eating apples and stuff and peaches are not in season right now.
So I figured eating biological and sugar free apple sauce (or whatever that would be called, just know the german name ) and drinking pear juice, biological and sugar free as well, could solve that problem for me.
the trouble I have now is that 5g of net carbs of these kinda things would be such tiny amounts (obvisouly) that it would be like not eating or drinking the stuff at all lol.
so to you guys who've been there, done that, how did you do it?
Most days I don't even come close to my current 40-45 net carbs limit so I have room there and thought I could eat/drink 100g/ml of of it which would amount to 9-11 net carbs which still wouldnt be much but would at least feel like I get something out of this

When I come to starchy veggies it'll be the same problem so if I can solve it now, I have solved it for that phase already.

Thanks for your answers.

[Brook]

Re: Adding fruit

Part of it is because you're starting off picking the wrong fruits. You're supposed to start off with berries and melons. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, boysenberries, blackberries, cantalope, honeydew, casaba melon - all of these are great choices. When berries aren't in season, the great thing about them is that you can buy them fresh frozen

Anything where fruit is purreed - or worse - made into juice (Juice is HORRIBLE for you. Takes all the bulk of the fruit away and leaves you with essentially pure sugar- even no sugar still leaves you with practically pure sugar!) is going to be very high carb for very small amounts. Skip the apple sauce and eat an apple. Skip the pear juice and eat the pear.

[Sera]

Re: Adding fruit

oh, I guess I should have mentioned that I've done the berry and melon thing already a while ago

What you say is obviously logical but there aren't any ripe pears to buy here (the only fruit apart from peach I can see me eat), they only have some kind of cooking pears that are so sour and firm that you really can't eat them without cooking them with sugar like they do here.
And apples, as I said I'm really not big on eating apples, never have been because I simply don't like them in their "raw" state
With these options skipping these fruit completely will be the only thing left to do :/

[not2late]

Re: Adding fruit

The "other fruits" rung is exactly that----fruits other than berries and melons. So oranges, grapes, quinces, figs, etc. are fair game for this rung.

I agree with Brook, skip the fruit sauces----unless you make them yourself. That way, you know 100% what went into them.

[Sera]

Re: Adding fruit

mh grapes...now they might still have these in the super market...never thought of them coz they seem even sweeter to me than apples lol.
i'll start with that and save the pear juice (coz i really miss it ) for later.

[Elizellen]

Re: Adding fruit

You dont have to cook pears in sugar - I sometimes dissolve some sweetener in a little hot water and let it cool then cook pears in that.
In the microwave you dont need much liquid, I usually cook pears halved and cored and just pour enough sweetened liquid into the hollow of the pear half to fill it.
Now I have found Davinci sugarfree syrups I sometimes use a little vanilla flavoured davinci instead