pie filling instead of preserves?

Hi snugglebunnies, I don't really make fruit pies as I always mess up pastry, but in winter I do lots of fruit crumbles and the principle is the same. I would say that once you've got the basic recipe sorted for either pie or crumble then absolutely anything you fancy goes inside. The recipe isn't needed for the whole thing in anything like that. If you want to use blueberries, just to make me jealous as we can't get them here, crumble would be great for soaking up those extra juices.

I think that preserves are thicker than pie filling, so it could be the pie filling will be too running. Unless of course you scoop out all the blueberries to use in the filling and discard some of the liquidy part. I used to have a recipe for oat bars with preserves, but think I must have lost it.