Easy and Healthy Christmas and Holiday Gift Idea-Dried Fruit Mix
December 12, 2008
Some of you may know that my background and love is really in healthy and light cooking, but I know with the holidays, it’s hard to focus on that. Even in my profession of being a Recipe Developer, I deviate from my healthy schedule, especially when working on holiday recipes. Usually, most magazines work six months in advance so I am preparing heavy holiday foods in the summer (during bathing suit season), and am grilling light summery food in the winter (luckily, I live in the south). As far as healthy gift ideas, I thought I would share one of my (and my kid’s) favorites-dried fruit mixed with a touch of ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. We went threw our jar in less than one day, so I hope this will be as popular as it was at our house.
Dried Fruit Mix
Prep: 10 minutes
Ingredients
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup dried apples
3/4 cup pitted prunes
3/4 cup dried aprictots
1/2 cup dried blueberries
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Preparation
1. Layer all ingredients in a 1-quart jar in the order given; tightly seal. Makes 1 gift jar.
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