Fruit Strips

The Ingredients

apple, beet, and ginger juice pulp

maple syrup

water

sunflower oil (I think it's better than canola oil)

Having a juicer is awesome. It is teaching me to be less wasteful. Instead of just throwing random scraps away, I will now say "I bet I can put that into a juice", and magic happens. I had leftover pulp from a juice I made, and thought I would get creative and make a kind of crunchy, chewy candy. Great success!!!!

All I did was add the pulp into a saucepan with some water and maple syrup (to taste). I just reduced it down a bit and let it simmer to really let any little bit of juice left develop. Then, I spread some sunflower oil onto parchment paper. I spread the fruit mixture on top and threw it in the oven on very low heat- 200 degrees, for about 7 hours. 

It looked like this:



Then, I broke it into pieces and it looked like this:

Yummy, yummy treat. 

I can't get over how I used such few ingredients and wasted basically nothing! It is so much healthier than buying store-bought snacks and really delicious. (And vegan!)