Fresh Fruit Cocktail

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 fuji apples or 3 gala apples
• 3 tangelos or 3 oranges
• 3 red pears or 3 bartlett pears
• 1 fresh cored pineapple
• 1 bunch red globe grapes (the really big ones)
• 1 (8 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
• 1 (3 ounce) box sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix or 1 (3 ounce) box sugar-free instant lemon pudding
• 1 (12 ounce) can carbonated lemon-lime beverage or 1 (12 ounce) can grapefruit flavor carbonated beverages

Recipe

• 1 important! retain all juices from fruits as you cut them!
• 2 peel and cut apples, oranges and pears into chunks.
• 3 cut pineapple into chunks.
• 4 quarter red globe grapes, removing seeds.
• 5 add entire jar of undrained cherries.
• 6 sprinkle dry pudding mix over fruit.
• 7 toss fruit well until coated with pudding.
• 8 add splashes of soda and toss fruit until your fruit cocktail has a nice "sauce" but not too "soupy". this varies depending on how much juice you had from the fruits.
• 9 refrigerate to chill and let flavors blend. cook time is chill time.