Frozen berries?

EllsKBells

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On days where I feel brave enough for breakfast, I often have natural yoghurt, which as you will know can be quite tasteless. I have seen many people say they include frozen berries, which sounds great, but I have a daft question.

What do you do with them? Do you get some out the night before and let them defrost? Do you warm them up somehow?

Yes, I realise this is a silly question!

Thank you :)
 

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I just pop a handful in my bowl and zap them for 30 seconds or so and then dump my diet doctor porridge on top of them. If putting them on yogurt, I used to let them defrost in a bowl in fridge overnight and use them next morning.
 
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I put the frozen blueberries I like in the yoghurt and eat them like that, as they do not take long to thaw out here.

I do not have them for breakfast tho' as I prefer a cooked meal.
 

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On days where I feel brave enough for breakfast, I often have natural yoghurt, which as you will know can be quite tasteless. I have seen many people say they include frozen berries, which sounds great, but I have a daft question.

What do you do with them? Do you get some out the night before and let them defrost? Do you warm them up somehow?

Yes, I realise this is a silly question!

Thank you :)

Personally, I like any fruit I have to have a bit of bite to it, so I tend to add the berries to the cream (more often than yoghurt in my case, although not at brekkers), ad by the time I am ready to eat it, they're a little softened from their concrete state, but are still bit frozen. Doing this also sometimes results in the fruit picking up a frozen coating of cream. That's delicious, to me anyway.

For added taste, or as an alternative, I'll shake some cinnamon onto my yoghurt. It adds a little something pleasant. I don't recommending sprinkling a little Chinese 5 Spice though, as that adds something I couldn't bring myself to categorise as pleasant - especially when expecting cinnamon!
 

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Personally, I like any fruit I have to have a bit of bite to it, so I tend to add the berries to the cream (more often than yoghurt in my case, although not at brekkers), ad by the time I am ready to eat it, they're a little softened from their concrete state, but are still bit frozen. Doing this also sometimes results in the fruit picking up a frozen coating of cream. That's delicious, to me anyway.

For added taste, or as an alternative, I'll shake some cinnamon onto my yoghurt. It adds a little something pleasant. I don't recommending sprinkling a little Chinese 5 Spice though, as that adds something I couldn't bring myself to categorise as pleasant - especially when expecting cinnamon!
I warm the berries up, put some plain yoghurt into a bowl, pour the warm berries on top with some cinnamon also..I will add a touch of sweetener to the yoghurt. I have done similar with fresh Rhubarb.
 

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I used to defrost a couple of the berries to have with greek style yoghurt but after forgetting to do this I added the frozen fruit to the yoghurt and waited a few minutes before chopping and mixing it in. It is just as nice as ice cream. I do not whizz the fruit as this destroys the little fibre it contains.
 
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I just put mine in frozen than let the yoghurt (or cream) solidify around them to make a fake ice cream. I eat them when they're still frozen.
 
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I just chuck a few frozen blueberries on top of a few spoonsful of greek yogurt. Leave the bowl next to the just boiled kettle for a couple of minutes, and they are good to go.
Don't forget to test to check the effect of the added berries on blood glucose. Lately I have found they cause more of a spike than banana. So I substitute chopped walnuts on the yogurt.
 

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I Have Greek yog. with blueberries and strawberries. This time of year the berries are not very sweet, if at all, but the taste is preferable. Whatever you do, Keep eating.
 
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