I've made it with date sugar (a natural sweetener) in place of brown sugar.

Cut 1 large apple in cubes; place in ramekin. Melt 1 tablespoon butter; stir in 2 tablespoons wheat flour, 1 tablespoon date sugar, pinch of cinnamon and cloves, and a few pecan pieces. Sprinkle this mixture over the apples. Bake 350 for 20-30 minutes.

Not real low cal or low sugar, but it IS all natural.

I like apples best raw. In fact, I'm not much of a cooked apple fan unless they're baked into a pie/crumble/cobbler and served warm, with ice cream (and even then I find it "edible" rather than delicious).

For fresh apples, I somtimes would add a smear of peanut butter or Nutella to raw apple slices or make an apple salad (I'd core and cut a bunch of apples into chunks and stir in Cool Whip and one crushed Skor or Heath Bar). If you use a lot of apples, and one of the lower calorie Cool Whip varieties (like the Cool Whip free) the calorie count is pretty reasonable.

Mostly I just eat them raw though, and if you have the refrigeratior space most apple varieties (especially if they're crisp to begin with) last a really long time (weeks to months) in the fridge. Even longer in the "green bags."

I just bought a 5 lb bag of Honey Crisp apples, and I put the whole bag on the bottom shelf of the fridge. They'll last at least a month (or at least they would in theory, I'll eat them all long before they start to get soft).

McIntosh apples are a little tart for eating raw. They're an old-fashioned apple, kind of like a Jonathan. I love them baked, in a pie or in a crisp and they make awesome sauce. I am guessing they would make really good applebutter, too, as another poster suggested.

Thanks for the suggestions ♥