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Recently we were honored to have a guest poster, Ashley share her experience of going through a full month with No. Refined. Sugar! In her post about going through Week Two of that challenge she shared with us a quick & easy hot-weather treat – Healthy Sugar-Free ‘Ice Cream’ made with frozen bananas and berries. Check out this recipe for a nice cool treat on a hot summer’s day that’s actually GOOD for you…
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These double chocolate banana-chunk cookies are primarily sweetened with the natural sugars of banana and honey. Fluffy, soft & chewy cookies that are bursting with chocolate flavor. 
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I’ve heard that pear relish is delicious but… I dunno. I mean sweet pears coupled with savory onions & bell peppers? And jalapenos? And MUSTARD? Blech!
But this pear relish is surprisingly delicious. So much so that I’ve now made and canned this recipe several times. Check it out.
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My sweet aunt shared with me many delicious sweet apples from her tree. Not a few mind you, but a LOT! (as in 5 bushels of a lot!)
Thankfully this apple pie filling is pretty straightforward and canning it requires just a 20-minute stint in a water-bath canner. Wanna see how I did it?
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I recently acquired two different varieties of ripe plums that totaled about 30 lbs. Now I love fruit, and plums are some of my faves – so sweet, so juicy! But I’m going to have to preserve some of these plums if I’m going to keep them from going bad before they’re all consumed.
I love plum jelly but I’ve made so much jelly lately including apple butter, blueberry jam and even honeysuckle jelly that I don’t need any more in my stockpile. Even though I like to stock my pantry with jellies to sweeten my homemade yogurt, with only two of us at home these days I don’t want to make more than we can use. What else can I do with these delicious plums?
Hummm… I like to sweeten my homemade pumpkin granola with dried fruit and I recently used the last of my dehydrated jujube fruit. So maybe I can dehydrate these plums into raisin-sized chunks to naturally sweeten my granola?
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I love to eat chilled canned pears in light vanilla syrup as a simple dessert. They’re delicious eaten cold right out of the fridge.
So I set out to can some of fresh, juicy, delicious pears in a light vanilla-flavored syrup.
