A fruit salad is a delicious dish with different kinds of fruit, sometimes served submerged in their own fruit juice, or lathered with syrup. It is oftenly served as an appetizer, if not that, dessert. Eitherway, fruit salads are definitely delicious, you can have them for both appetizer and dessert.

Making your own fruit salad is not hard; you just need to prepare its ingredients. And the ingredients used are neither extinct nor hard to find, you can just whip out your wallet and make the march to the nearest grocery store.

Here is a beautiful, delicious and very refreshing salad.

Easy Recipes Layered Fruit Salad recipe
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients
2 medium bananas, sliced
2 cups pineapple chunks
2 medium oranges, peeled and sectioned
2 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
1 cup red seedless grapes
1 pint strawberries, sliced
1 medium grapefruit, peeled and sectioned
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 teaspoon orange zest
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon, rind of
1 cinnamon stick

Preparation
1.In a medium saucepan, combine the orange juice and zest, lemon juice and rind, brown sugar and cinnamon stick. Bring to a boil.
2. Reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for about 5 minutes.
3. Remove from the heat and let cool completely.
4. Layer the fruit in a glass serving bowl.
5. Remove the cinnamon stick from the sauce; pour the sauce over the fruit.
6. Cover and chill for several hours before serving.

WW POINTS per serving: 4
Nutritional information per serving: 217 calories, 0.7g fat, 5g fiber

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If you know a lot of people and plan to buy for each one certain gifts each holiday you should probably think twice before spending your money. It’s not too nice when you spend hundreds of dollars for your family, friends and even neighbors gifts. Instead of buying gifts this holiday season, you could make sweets as gifts for them. You don’t have to bake them and you don’t need to know too many things about cooking.
You should stick to a recipe that doesn’t contain nuts because there are people that are allergic to these and something like fudge or holiday cookies are great to start with. Find great packages to house your sweets, like holiday tins and get one tin per family. Start baking your treats and place them nicely in your tins. Add bonbons and lollies to create a nice visible impression and try to deliver them soon after baking. If you’ll wait too long they won’t be eatable at all.
Creating sweets as gifts is a wonderful way to spend your time and you will see a lot of difference when you will be spending less money for gifts each holiday. It is a great feeling to get a gift that someone has spent time on as well, so your friends and family will love it!

Weight Watchers Portobello Pasta Bowls recipe
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients
6 portobello mushroom, stems removed
6 ounces spinach fettuccine (or spaghetti)
2 medium tomato (red or yellow)
3 tablespoons olive oil
salt (to taste)
pepper (to taste)
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon oregano, freshly snipped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper, ground
1/4 cup basil, freshly snipped

Preparation
1. Using a teaspoon, gently scrape the gills out of the bottom of the mushroom caps.
2. Lightly rinse the caps, then pat them dry with paper towels.
3. Cut the tomatoes in half; remove seeds and stem.
4. Brush the top and underside of the mushrooms and all sides of tomatoes with the 3 tablespoons olive oil.
5. Lightly sprinkle the mushrooms and tomatoes with salt and pepper.
6. Grill the mushroom caps and tomato halves over medium heat for about 6-8 minutes (or until tender).
7. Cook the pasta according to package directions; drain, then return to pot.
8. For the dressing: coarsely chop the grilled tomatoes.
9. In a blender or food processor combine the tomatoes, the 1/4 cup olive oil, lemon juice, the 1 tsp oregano, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper.
10. Cover and blend or process until smooth.
11. Drizzle the pasta with 2 tablespoons of the dressing.
12. To serve: place the mushroom caps on serving plates. Divide the pasta among the mushrooms, drizzle with the remaining dressing and sprinkle with snipped basil.

One serving is approximately 177 grams.
WW POINTS per serving: 6
Nutritional information per serving: 255 calories, 16.6g fat, 1.9g fiber
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These wonderful pancakes are made without egs. They’re very easy to make and delicious, and each one is only 2 points. They taste just heavenly with honey or Nutella… Yummy!

Weight Watchers Eggless Banana Pancakes recipe
Makes 12 pancakes

Ingredients
2 small ripe bananas, finely chopped
1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups skim milk
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons white sugar

Preparation
1.In a large bowl, mix the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
2. Stir in the milk and finely chopped bananas just until moistened.
3. Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium-high heat.
4. Pour or scoop the batter onto the frying pan, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake.
5. Brown on both sides and serve hot.

WW POINTS for one pancake: 2
Nutritional information for one pancake: 91 calories, 0.4g fat, 1.5g fiber

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Fruit salad is probably one of the easiest and tastiest things in the world to make. Any seven-year old can whip up their salad in no time at all. In fact, for a real bonding time with your kids, you can involve them in the kitchen and have fun whipping up this fabulous desert.

This is particularly popular during the summer when fresh fruits abound, however, summer or winter, it doesn’t really matter as fruits grow all year round. There’s really nothing to putting together fruit salad rcipes.

Ethiopian Fruit Salad recipe
Makes 4 servings

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups seedless grapes
1 ripe mango, peeled and cut in pieces
1 navel orange, peel removed and cut in sections
1 small ripe papaya, peeled and cut in pieces
1 banana, sliced

Preparation
1. Combine all the cut up fruit.
2. Add the sliced banana just before serving.

One serving is approximately 214 grams.
WW POINTS per serving: 2
Nutritional information per serving: 133 calories, 0.4g fat, 3.7g fiber