Since being back at work, I have been taking dried fruit as a snack to work. I am still job shadowing so its not like I can really eat anything "large". Problem is that I am finding that I am still hungry even after eating more then 2 cups of dried fruit.
I was thinking that it may be the "chew" factor. Without the "chewing" your mind doesn't always think you are full. I spent a few minutes last night trying to figure out how to solve the issue. The only thing I could come up with was to do a "thick" fruit leather so it's more like a "jelly" candy.
Anyone tried making a very thick fruit leather? Best guess is that I will have to do it on cookie sheets in the oven and use gelatin. That way I could also add things like sunflower seeds. The only problem that I can see is that it would still be "wet" or really sticky.
When it's done could you shake something over it like cornstarch to get rid of the stick factor? The fruit roll ups that come from the store seem to have some kind of coating on them. I haven't tried it tho!
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Thanks the only thing that I could think of was powdered sugar.
Hi, new, just posted the introduction.
If you're still having problems with feeling full and satisfied, it may be due to what exactly you're consuming. Fruit is great for dieting, even dried fruit, because it's low cal and the body processes fairly quickly.
You may want to add some nuts and seeds to the mix and some kind of carb. Pretzels, a few graham crackers for sweet or savory crackers for salty, or some homemade options can lend some variety to the texture and give your stomach something that takes longer to process. Whole grains are better.
If you're a baker, you can make apple-cranberry oatmeal bars with some extra honey, and cut them into one-bite or two-bite slices. You can also make zucchini or banana bread (and substitute grated apples, spaghetti squash, grated pears, and oatmeal or ground oats or nut flour for part of the flour called for) then slice it think or cut it into 1/2" cubes and dehydrate it or use the oven to basically make melba rounds or squares and croutons that can be added to a fruit or munched here and there instead of the fruit.
If they thick gel candy thing is still troublesome, try cutting it into squares and putting those in a pill dispenser box with compartments, and add a fork or toothpicks so you can pop it open, grab a bite, and snap it closed again.
Good luck!
Hi, new, just posted the introduction.
If you're still having problems with feeling full and satisfied, it may be due to what exactly you're consuming. Fruit is great for dieting, even dried fruit, because it's low cal and the body processes fairly quickly.
You may want to add some nuts and seeds to the mix and some kind of carb. Pretzels, a few graham crackers for sweet or savory crackers for salty, or some homemade options can lend some variety to the texture and give your stomach something that takes longer to process. Whole grains are better.
If you're a baker, you can make apple-cranberry oatmeal bars with some extra honey, and cut them into one-bite or two-bite slices. You can also make zucchini or banana bread (and substitute grated apples, spaghetti squash, grated pears, and oatmeal or ground oats or nut flour for part of the flour called for) then slice it think or cut it into 1/2" cubes and dehydrate it or use the oven to basically make melba rounds or squares and croutons that can be added to a fruit or munched here and there instead of the fruit.
If they thick gel candy thing is still troublesome, try cutting it into squares and putting those in a pill dispenser box with compartments, and add a fork or toothpicks so you can pop it open, grab a bite, and snap it closed again.
Good luck!
Thank you for the great ideas.
I am done the job shadowing now, so I can eat "real" snacks at my desk. After some experimenting with leathers, I figured out how to make something small enough to snack on while at someone else's desk but filling.
I did multiple layers for the leathers after whipping the "fruit pulp" in the blender to make it very frothy. I then dried the "fruit pulp" in cookies (1 inch rounds) to the point of being done but instead of taking it out of my dehydrator I added more "fruit pulp" on top of the cookies and dried it again. In some cases I did 3 layers to get something thick enough to give it some depth. The texture when done was almost bubbly like sea foam. It also just about melted in the mouth like a candy. I have since done the same thing with cooked squash, tomato and sweet potato - not mixed together 😆
I got so excited by how well it worked that I started getting anyone that walked by me to try the different varieties that I had made 😳
I am hoping to make pumpkin pie "cookies" today from the Complete Dehydrator cookbook by Mary Bell. 