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These days I’m trying to cut as many corners as I can without sacrificing the quality and healthiness factor of our food. I’ve decided to make a fruit salad twice a week with the different fruits that I find on sale each week in the produce department. I find myself cutting up a different piece of fruit every day for lunch and another for a snack. Not really the most efficient use of my time. So I thought, let’s do all the cutting at once (or twice) and make up a fruit salad.
This week’s salad includes blueberries, strawberries, mango, kiwi, peaches, nectarines and watermelon. I simply cut up about half of what I buy and toss it all together. The other half stays fresh in its own skin until a few days later when I cut up round 2 for the week. Because the fruit is “ready” and “convenient,” we are eating more of it.
I plan to continue this throughout the summer while the fruit prices are so low. I’ll just get enough of the fruits that are on sale each week, and we’ll have a healthy, quick and inexpensive snacks all summer long!
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Erin! I love me some fruit salad! I hope you’ll stop by my blog today for a super-easy & tasty, budget-friendly salad dressing!
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Good thinking. Great way to get the kids (& hubby) to snack healthfully. Love this blog, btw.
xo
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We do the same thing with our fruit expect we cut up the whole fruit in one shot. Our kids are older though (10,18,21) so it goes pretty quick. Sometimes I keep each fruit in a separate container for those picky eaters.
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Keeping cut up fruit on hand comes in handy for throwing together a quick smoothie! Add some vanilla yogurt and a few ice cubes and presto, fruit smoothie. Put the leftovers in popsicle molds for a tasty treat later. If you don’t have enough, add a little to several of the molds and add more leftovers later for a layered effect.
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Erin do you add any liquid to yours?
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Erin Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I only add a few splashes of lemon juice if I include apples or bananas. Otherwise no!
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YUM!! This looks so good! I always have the good intention of cutting up my fruit for fruit salad, or just so it is ready to eat, but have a hard time following through with it. This is an inspiration to me today!
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That looks good enough to eat right off the screen!
I love fruit. I’m bad about not buying it enough though. I need to do better and do things like this! 
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…and it doesn’t get brown or go bad by the time you finish the entire bowl ?
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Erin Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Nope. If Iadd bananas or apples, I’ll add a few splashes of lemon juice.
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How yummy that looks! Great idea to cut it up and mix together. Maybe my husband will eat more fruit if I have it available like this. Love the variety and also purchasing when in season and on sale.
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Looks yummy! My daughter can’t have milk, so I mix her fruit salad with soy yogurt to add some calcium…good stuff!
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I love to make this too but I add honey and fresh lemon juice—it’s wonderful!!
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I just set that picture as my desktop background it looks so good! My mom is in the practice of keeping fruit salads around. I really ought to start.
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I loved this fruit salad so much, I put a link to it on Heart Choices today (Friday).
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Looks delicious!
Fruit salad– Yummy, Yummy. Fruit Salad– Yummy, Yummy. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy Fruit Salad!
I can’t help myself, whenever I hear/see the words Fruit Salad, all I can think of is The WIggles!
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Thanks for the inspiration to eat more fruit. BTW, you might want to try Mexican style fruit salad – it’s delicious. Just serve pieces of fruit over a small mound of cottage cheese, sprinkle with some raisins and sunflower seeds, and drizzle honey over the top. Yum!
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Can you freeze this fruit salad (if you don’t put bananas or apples in there)?
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Erin Reply:
July 7th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Yep…could be frozen and used for smoothies. Bananas can be frozen…apples can be, but I don’t recommend it!
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