Adding Apples to Your Family’s Menu

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With an abundance of easy ways to enjoy them, apples are a perfect way to introduce more produce to your diet. Crisp and sweet, they add a little extra goodness to busy days as a good source of fiber, helping support healthy digestion while keeping you fuller, longer.

• Breakfast: Top oatmeal or cereal with apple splices, stir chopped apples into pancake batter or layer yogurt, granola and sliced apples for kid-friendly parfaits.
• Lunch: Pack apple slices and nut or seed butter along with your main protein, tuck thin slices into turkey sandwiches or simply add a whole apple to lunchboxes for work or school.
• Snack Time: Bake thin apple splices and sprinkle with cinnamon for a warm treat, make apple nachos by spreading wedges with peanut butter and topping with raisins or pair cubed apples with other fruits (like grapes and berries) for easy kebabs.
• Sweet Treats: On the stove, warm sliced apples with a dash of cinnamon then serve over yogurt. Add chopped apples to muffin batter for a make-ahead solution to cap off busy days.

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