Penny's Passion: Let Them Eat Fruit!

Monday, April 6, 2015

Let Them Eat Fruit!

Saturday we ventured down to Soulard Market and I was looking for fruit.  My friend, Linda, had made a fabulous fruit salad for Ian's graduation a few years ago and I've been imitating it ever since.  I thought it would be the perfect fruit salad to serve on Easter.

This is one of the simplest recipe you'll ever come across and, as an added bonus, it's good for you.  I'm not always the best at eating a piece of fruit, but put a bowl of this fruit salad in front of me and it's gone before you can blink your eye -- well, maybe not that quick, but pretty darn quick.

Here's the instructions:

Gather a bunch of fruit.  I used two Granny Smith apples, some blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.


Cut the apples into bite-size pieces.  Also slice the strawberries (I sliced them into fourths).


Dump all the fruit into a bowl and sprinkle with a packet of sugar-free jello mix.  I typically use raspberry jello.  Stir.  That's it.


Pretty simple, don't you think?!?  This is such a pretty dish to have sitting on your table at meal time!
Just look at all the yummy fruit!


Sometimes I spoon it into dessert cups and put them at each place setting.  For Easter, I decided to use one of my Grandmother's bowl.  Either way, it's a great fruit salad that you can whip up in a very short period of time.

Enjoy!

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18 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing this healthy fruit with me today!

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  2. This is pretty, and we love fresh fruit salad around here. It's always one of the first to go when I make it because everyone keeps attacking it ;)

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  3. That looks delicious! I would've never thought to sprinkle the Jello over the fruit, what a yummy idea!

    I'm a vegetarian, and we don't have Jello in Denmark, if I weren't and if we did, I'd be tempted to give it a try :)

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  4. That fruit salad looks so delicious and healthy. I remember the days when my other half used to bring me some freshly made fruit salads for breakfast, those were the days.

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  5. Looks light and refreshing. Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Fruit salad sounds so nice right now. I'd love to try this! It looks great with the Jello mixed in.

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  7. YUM! I love that this looks delicious and healthy, and it's also so pretty too :)

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  8. I never would have thought to add jello to my fruit salad. Must be a great flavor combo, though!

    Amanda
    www.queenofthelandoftwigsnberries.com

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  9. I have never seen jello and fruit in this combo! That looks delicious :) One of my favorite fruit and jello combos is putting pineapple rings in strawberry jello.

    Liz Leiro
    (californiapretty.com)

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  10. This fruit salad looks amazing. I love berries and I will make it this week for my family

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  11. You really can't go wrong with a fruit salad. It's one of my favorite things to eat during the summer. So light and refreshing to eat .

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  12. You are right. It is do simple. And also yummy and healthy

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  13. A fruit salad fits great into almost any dining setting and it's a fantastic snack as well.

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  14. This is an awesome fruit salad and I would have never thought to just sprinkle the jello on it. I am for sure going to be trying this indeed. Thanks so much for sharing.

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  15. What a yummy looking fruit salad! I never thought to sprinkle jello on top! Awesome tip!

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  16. Wait! Sprinkle the jello packet over the fruit? GENIUS!!!

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  17. I've never thought to sprinkle jello on a fruit salad, I'll have to try that next time I make one.

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  18. Yum! I never would have thought to use Jell-O that way. How creative.

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