A few weeks ago I got on this "Let'due south be healthy!" boot, and had big plans about making u.s. all sorts of good stuff like smoothies. And so of class I went out that afternoon and bought the BIGGEST bag of frozen strawberries that I could find. Then I grabbed another smaller bag of frozen mixed berries only for good measure out.

I'm sure you all know how the scenario played out after that…

I kept forgetting that the berries were in the freezer, so it was a week earlier I e'er got effectually to making smoothies at all. Pismire looked at me like I was a complete lunatic if I thought a smoothie was going to be enough breakfast to fifty-fifty hold him over for the side by side twenty minutes. Then of course Reli turned upward her olfactory organ considering there were besides many "crunchies" (ie. seeds) in hers, and after I went through the trouble of straining them out she still wanted nothing to do with information technology. This left ME to drink plenty smoothie to feed three people, and ii near completely total bags of frozen berries leftover!

Fast forrad to this weekend . . .

I haven't bothered to make smoothies since then, and accept no thought what to practice with the berries that are taking up precious freezer space. Since I take already planned out my post-labor "you won't starve because dinner'due south in the freezer" meals, the simply thing left is to clear out some space, and those berries needed to hit the trail!

What to do? Quick, Pinterest to the rescue!

My bright plan was finally just to make a huge batch of fruit leather. Now, I've never fabricated them earlier, and I know the recipes call for fresh fruit, but I was desperate. I mean how hard could it exist to puree up some berry mush and bake it for a few hours? Famous final words…

Long story made longer, I pureed, strained, boiled, spread, and baked 4-5lbs. worth of berries.

Then I baked them some more.

And some more than.

2 hr by the "suggested baking time" I finally figured they were done plenty, and allow them absurd.

Later that evening when I started cutting them into strips and wrapping them upwards, something only didn't seem right. And then information technology occurred to me. My cookie sheets are probably the furthest matter from flat you've ever seen!

All the goo just kept gathering into a behemothic united nations-dry-out-able puddle in the center while the edges turned into something akin to crunchy burnt shoe leather!

Ant's observations – "This kinda tastes like the Natural fruit stuff that they give boy scouts on camping ground trips."

My translation – "This is about as bad as that dehydrated crap they feed the astronauts!"

Needless to say everything tasted HORRIBLE and concluded up going right in the trash.

I recall I'll just stick with the super candy fruit roll ups from now on,

but at least the freezer is empty!

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