SubscribeThe fruits of spring
Have you seen the new government food pyramid yet? It’s really attractive and shows fruit as the most important food group.
Fresh fruit is relatively inexpensive and it’s good for us, whether it’s eaten whole or mixed into an exotic fruit salad. There’s nothing more delightful on a beautiful spring day than a wonderful, lush fruit salad. However you prefer it, fruit is delicious and I love the large strawberries and blueberries that you can easily find this time of year, no matter where you live. The next day, toss the fruit salad into the blender for a healthy drink.
Fruits salads are easy to make. They’re one of those foods that no matter how much or how little fruit you use, as long as it’s ripe, you can’t it mess up. Anyone – even a 2-year-old – can make a fruit salad. I like to make sure that my fruit is perfectly ripe, so I usually let it sit for a day after I bring it home from the store. I like to cut fruits like melons, peaches and nectarines at room temperature and then store them separately in the refrigerator in glass bowls. Then it’s easy to pull out the fruit for on-the-spot salads.
Have a fruit-salad bar at breakfast or for dessert at night.
This is one of my favorite combinations morning, noon and night. Mine looks just like the one in Elana’s photo shown here, but mine has a honeydew base.
Fruit Salad
1 ripe honeydew, seeded and cut, with juice
1 cup of ripe blueberries
1 banana
½ cup of strawberries, sliced
3 nectarines, seeded and sectioned, with juice
Optional garnishes
1 ½ cups of vanilla yogurt
½ cup crushed walnuts
½ cup of granola
1/8 cup of shredded dried coconut
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As the mother of five and a journalist, I've always encouraged people to empower themselves with information on healthy foods and lifestyles. Nurturing our children with healthy food is one of the most important jobs we have, yet as families have become busier or drifted apart, meal times have been sacrificed.
