Description:
Just joking about the bats! This is what my son called the fruit salad when I made it for him as a toddler and I added the real fruit bats just to get him going. Aren't I a mean mom? He was my baby fruit bat and I had to feed him this salad. Remember Stellaluna the story of the baby fruit bat who is lost from her mother? It was his favorite story and we had a Stellaluna stuffed bat. He's older now and no longer calls it fruit bat fruit salad. So here's the recipe.


Ingredients:
1 can of Dole tropical fruit salad - do not drain
3 bananas sliced
3 kiwis peeled and sliced
1 jar of maraschino cherries (drained on a paper towel) - I like the ones with stems and so do the kids.
Lots of "fruit bats" to eat the salad.

Directions:
Mix all the fruit together. You can increase the amounts to serve more people. There are 4 of us and usually eat the whole salad - but it could be stretched to 6 (we just love it and eat it all). This salad is better if you can let it set for 4 hours and is great the next day - the pineapple in the tropical fruit salad keeps the bananas from turning brown. I have also added fresh, sliced apricots to the mix and they are very good when they have time to soak up the juice. Even the dogs love this salad and get all the leftovers. It is great with pizza.