Fruit Salad?
01-04-2012, 04:08 PM
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Should have quoted you sassy granny. My post is on here somewhere.
Originally Posted by sassy granny
The fruit salad I make for Christmas and special ocassions is fruit only and very good.
Get a big bowl, Peel and dice a couple of red or yellow delicious apples, slice a couple of banannas, dump a 20 oz. can of drained pineapple tidbits, a can of drained fruit cocktail, a can of drained mandarin oranges. ( a couple of fresh oranges is better ), a handful of seedless grapes, a few pecans if you like nuts in your fruit.
I just dump all of this in the bowl and add about 1/2 cup of sugar. You could use artificial sweetner if you're really on a diet. I like my fruit sweetened.
This is so simple and really good.
sassy granny
Get a big bowl, Peel and dice a couple of red or yellow delicious apples, slice a couple of banannas, dump a 20 oz. can of drained pineapple tidbits, a can of drained fruit cocktail, a can of drained mandarin oranges. ( a couple of fresh oranges is better ), a handful of seedless grapes, a few pecans if you like nuts in your fruit.
I just dump all of this in the bowl and add about 1/2 cup of sugar. You could use artificial sweetner if you're really on a diet. I like my fruit sweetened.
This is so simple and really good.
sassy granny
01-04-2012, 05:13 PM
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I like fresh fruit salad, I would try to have some kind of stone fruit (plums, peaches), some kind of berries,grapes, pineapple, and some citrus fruit. Not crazy about apples in it. The citrus fruit adds ascorbic acid to make it last longer. NO COOL WHIP OF ANY KIND!!!!!!!YUCK!!!!! That stuff has high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in it - NOT good for you!!
You can make a good size batch of this and it will keep for several days in the fridge. If you want bananas in it I would add them one at a time as you are ready to eat it. Otherwise they get mushy.
The best part of fruit salad is the juice left at the bottom of the container.
You can make a good size batch of this and it will keep for several days in the fridge. If you want bananas in it I would add them one at a time as you are ready to eat it. Otherwise they get mushy.
The best part of fruit salad is the juice left at the bottom of the container.
01-04-2012, 11:20 PM
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I had a friend when my father died that brought me a big bowl of just cut up various fruits...the stuff that didn't brown...so strawberries, grapes, pinapple, kiwi, melons...just tossed together. That was all I ate for days. Thank God for my friend. It still is good as now I make it for myself.
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01-04-2012, 11:55 PM
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I was just in Europe and had a wonderful fruit salad which was cut up fresh apples and oranges, dried figs and prunes, fresh pineapple and it was drizzled with honey that had been heated with a cinnamon stick in it. I added fresh melon and banana from the breakfast buffet in the hotel to this mix, and one of our traveling companions did the same but also added plain yogurt. Yummy
01-05-2012, 11:23 AM
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a quick, easy, and elegant fruit salad is cut up fruit of the season ( right now, bananas, apples, pears, kiwi, etc.) drain and add canned fruit that you like, toss together, and the big secret delicious dressing is--ta-daaah--a bottle or two of banana baby food. yup. those canned bananas make the best dressing/binder for a salad, ever. add a few maraschino cherries to the top for "pretty", and you're set. people always ask what on earth you used that was so light tasting but so good, and only you know the delicious secret.
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