Fruit Salad Featuring Davinci Skinnylicious Sugar-Free Margarita Mix

FIRST...Have you read my Recharge Nutrition Bar review and entered the giveaway? You should go do that and win you some free stuff! Trust me...the fruit salad (might) be here when you get back!

Ok, now that you're back I have to admit that this isn't really a recipe. I'd say it's more of a method.

Fruit salad. Most people think it's just for summer, but I say nay! Even if you're trying to stay mostly local with your produce (as I am) you can make fruit salad out of whatever is in season. Thankfully for me, it's still late summer and farmers are still hauling melons to market along with all varieties of apples, nectarines and there's even still some blueberry action (although not much). I won't lie, the strawberries are NOT local! But that's why I say I try to stay mostly local. Because the occasional strawberry/pineapple craving can hit us all!

For what it's worth, here's what's in this fruit salad

• 1/2 a canary melon, cubed (What's that?)
• 2 Honeycrisp apples seeded, cored and diced
• 1/2 a container strawberries
• 1/2 a container blueberries
• 1 large nectarine seeded and diced
• 1 tbsp. no-calorie sweetener (Splenda, Equal, etc.)
• 2 tbsp. Davinci Skinnylicious Sugar-free Margarita Mix

So what's up with the Margarita Mix? Well, I got a bottle at WLSFA in Vegas. And much as I love that we have the option to have an adult beverage without all the extra sugar, I'm just not that big of a drinker. I will say at five years out I drink on occasion but not nearly enough to use that entire bottle of mix!

That is to say I needed to find a way to use it up.

In traditional fruit salads it's highly suggested to add something acidic, like citrus fruit, to "brighten" up the sweetness of the fruit (especially as it continues to release water after being cut, which concentrates the sweetness) and to preserve color. I did add a splash of lemon juice along with this mix because I wasn't sure if there was actual lime in it or lime flavoring (I suppose I could look at the label but that just requires a little bit too much effort right this moment!

So what the heck does a post-op do with fruit salad when you're supposed to eat protein first? Well at five years out here's what I do with it.

I throw it on top of some sweetened cottage cheese for a nice dessert.

I add it to my (and the girls) breakfast plate for a little something fresh (what you see there is 1/3 c. of fruit salad, along with three Eggs Rosettes and some bacon - for the record, no, I could not eat all that. I ate two Rosettes, the bacon and most of the fruit salad).