Last Second Fruit Salad

I make lunch every day for many people. I love that I get to help them through their busy days and I LOVE when they take time to give me blush-worthy praise. I also make lunch each and every day for my two small humans. H and E... well, let's just say, they don't tend to throw as much praise my way as the people who pay for their soups, sandwiches and salads.

A recent quote from my son: Well, Mom... I've HEARD your soups were delicious, but I'm still just going to not eat it. Don't feel bad. Other people will.

So... I'm not normally thrilled making lunches for the kids - that is unless I'm making lunches WITH the kids. They like to eat things they make with me, which is why I asked my daughter to help me make fruit salad Sunday morning. In the past, when I have made fruit salad, they looked at it as though I were torturing them by merely suggesting they try it. BUT... if they were the actual creators, I figured I'd have a better shot at them actually eating the salad. We had a lot of leftover fruit from school lunches and R and I were getting ready to make one of our "famous to our friends" epic Sunday brunches. A fruit salad would be a fantastic accompaniment.

I had some watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple and fresh berries in the fridge. I got H a cutting board, a bowl and a kid-friendly knife and told her to start chopping. (She's not exactly into long term commitments to helping me so I also got out a knife and cutting board and was in charge of the melons.)

 Within minutes, we had a fresh fruit salad that was perfect JUST like that! In the past, I've added fruit juice (I like to go with Cranberry juice but you could use whatever you felt like), and a variety of other fruits. I'm not a huge fan of putting apples and oranges in my fruit salad - but my mom does all the time so you can definitely use what you have on hand and end up with something delicious. I think some recipes call for some sort of sugar to be added. I tend to think fruit is sweet enough without it - but perhaps if it were under-ripe, you might want to add some honey or maple syrup.

That's it! Fruit Salad - in minutes - mostly made by a seven year old. Yum.