Fruit Salad

TheRealParisLove

A relative had a garden party on Saturday and had 4 pounds of fresh fruit salad left over. She gave it to me because, and I quote, "Here, you like all this healthy stuff."

I live with my husband who does not like fruit as a general rule. He'll have a banana or throw some frozen berries in his smoothies, but that is about the extent of it. This fruit salad has berries and pineapple and grapes and a couple different kinds of melon. It is all really good quality fruit without any added sugar or dressings.

So I pulled out my blender, and blended up all 4 pounds of fruit this morning. It made about 1.5 liters after being blended w/o adding any other liquid. I filled up some ice cube trays with the blended fruit, and now it is freezing up for use in future smoothies. I figure 1/2 cup of fruit puree would be about a serving of fruit.

Hopefully I can convince my husband to use it in his protein smoothies! If not, I'm sure it will keep for a month so I won't need to buy anymore frozen fruit for myself for a while.

When you are a broke student trying to eat healthy, you do what you can! Any other ideas for my pureéd fruit? Smoothies and Popsicles are about the extent of my ideas.

Pedal_Pusher

If it works for you, use it.

leska1216

Add pureed fruit to pancakes, muffins, baking, etc etc etc.

Shakes and smoothies is good, too.
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Top your cereal, oatmeal, etc with pureed or fresh fruit.

opuntia

That's a great idea. When you defrost it you can add it to oatmeal/porridge (I'm not sure if people mean porridge when they say oatmeal) or use it to make fruit muffins, or just as a drink. It might be nice mixed with white wine too.

FranchescaFord777

Good idea!! I love when people gift me with "healthy stuff."

MuddieMae

It might taste good over pancakes or similar.

megleo818

Let it thaw (or heat it) and put it over plain yogurt for a parfait. Yum!

missmgray

Use them as ice cubes in crystal light or Iced tea for a treat. Or sangria....