Does your meal planning method include fruit?

I love trying new recipes and cooking, but I hate feeling like I'm tied to the kitchen every night as soon as I get home. The routine that we've come to use most in the last year is to cook three nights a week (Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday) with a couple of desserts made leisurely late in the evening during the week. Each meal (meat, cruciferous vegetable, other vegetable [carrot, tomato, squash, etc.], starch [potato, pasta, or bread], grain [rice, corn, or beans/peas], and dessert - all cooked from scratch) feeds the three of us for two nights with enough left for my lunch on two days as well. DH and DM help with cutting, peeling, and prep, so all the work is not as bad as it sounds and worth every minute of it. Truly, each meal seems like a feast.

The problem that I've run into is trying to work fruit into our diet. DH does not consider most fruit-based desserts to be "real" desserts. I have tried recipes for entrees or side dishes that include fruit, but they just never go over well. Chutneys and fruit salsas were a bust. I'm looking for something fruity that will pass muster with a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. My last idea is to puree it, pour in some alcohol and try to pass it off as a mixed drink. Your suggestions are appreciated.