A Jessica Siegel & Kid-Friendly Recipe

Tropical Papaya Cups, a Kid-Friendly Recipe *

Serves 2, or many

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his is an easy, fun and refreshing snack or dessert. Adults with like it, too. Feel free to get creative with any fruit for the fruit salad and keep in mind that mango and pineapple go especially well with papayas.

You will need:

a small bowl   ♦   a teaspoon measuring spoon   ♦   a knife
two plates   ♦   a serving spoon   ♦   two forks   ♦   two teaspoons

Ingredients:

• 1 lime
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 small papaya
• 1 small package Gelson's Finest fruit salad in juice (in the produce department, about ½ pound)

Instructions:


1. Wash the lime and cut it in half around the middle. Squeeze both halves into the bowl.

2. Measure out 1 teaspoon of honey into the bowl. Use a spoon to mix the honey and lime juice together until the honey dissolves.

3. Wash the papaya. Put it on a plate and cut it in half long ways through the stem end. Use the spoon to gently scoop out any black seeds into the garbage. Put one half on each plate.

4. Divide the fruit salad among the two papayas, placing the fruit into the cavity where the seeds were.

5. Mix the lime juice and honey again and pour half of it over one of the papaya cups and the other half over the remaining papaya cup.

6. Use a fork to eat the fruit salad and a teaspoon to scoop bites out of the papaya.

* Children should be supervised by an adult.

Each papaya cup contains:
Calories Fat Saturated Fat Trans Fat Cholesterol Sodium Total Carbohydrate Dietary Fiber Sugars Protein Vitamin A Vitamin C Calcium Iron	130       1 g     0 g     0 g  0 mg  10 mg     33 g     5 g     25 g     2 g     57% DV 247% DV 6% DV 3% DV