We hear it all the time: shop in season! Besides the fact that produce is just more delicious in season, it’s also cheaper! Just this weekend, I found 3 lb. bags of apples selling for $.99. It doesn't get cheaper than that! So I took advantage and bought apples. Lots of them. Now what?
The trick is trying to come up with creative, quick recipes to use up all that great produce.
My daughter then came home with another bag full of apples from her preschool apple picking trip! The pride in her eyes when she brought home those apples was priceless. I knew I had to make something simple that she could help me with and easy to pack in her lunch. I thought, I’ll make chips! These will be crunchy, healthy and delicious!
These baked apple chips only need three ingredients and a hot oven! Super easy, and a great addition to any MOMables lunch!
Easy Baked Apple Chips
Ingredients:
2 cups apple juice
1 cinnamon stick
2 apples
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Bring apple juice and cinnamon stick to a low boil.
- Core apple and slice as thinly as possible into rings.
- Drop into boiling apple juice and let it cook for about 5 minutes or until wilted and translucent.
- Dry on paper towels.
- Place on cooling rack and bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes or until crisp and lightly golden brown.
- Check on them halfway through and turn over for even baking.
*Laura Fuentes is the Chief MOM at MOMables™. A wife, mother of 3 and a lunch enthusiast who insists on healthy, wholesome food for her family. 
On her personal blog, Super Glue Mom, she writes about motherhood, green living, deadlines and keeping her cool, even when her kids super-glued her hair.
