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No Sugar Recipe for Kids: Homemade Applesauce

Ingredients
  

  • 4 apples
  • strawberries peaches, or other leftover fruit
  • We keep use an extra bowl to collect apple peels cores, and anything else that can be used as compost.

Instructions
 

  • Wash and peel the apples. You can use a regular peeler, an apple peeler, or a paring knife.
  • Core the apples, using a knife or an apple corer.
  • Cut the apples in cubes.
  • Place them in a medium saucepan.
  • Wash and prepare any other fruit that you will be using. Cut harder fruits (e.g., peaches or pears) into chunks. Softer fruits like strawberries can be used whole.
  • Place the fruit into the saucepan with the apples.
  • Bring to a simmer on medium heat.
  • Lower the heat and continue to simmer until fruit softens.
  • Mash the fruit with a wooden spoon or a potato masher.
  • Continue to simmer on low heat and mash fruit until it reaches your desired consistency.