Fruit Salad

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.