Fruit as Frugal Cocktail Food II Cooking 101 Strategies Professional & University Etiquette Provisioning

Bananas can be served alone whole, halved, or in quarters with or without the skin, or in slices. Bananas can be peeled and, sliced or not, stored in bags and frozen for use later. Peanut butter can be added to these on a bagel or bun, yum. Bananas can be separated into thirds lengthwise, just by pressing your finger in from the tip of one, and used as part of a topping.  (*1c 1c) Each can be coated with quick shell chocolate and rolled in nuts, and placed on wax paper in a refrigerator until it hardens. These can be eaten alone or cut up and placed in oatmeal or cereal. Everyone knows you can use these to make smoothies with berries. Bananas can be kept frozen separately, or covered in dark chocolate separately, and then frozen in packs. Bananas that are about to go soft can be added to a citrus salad.

Organic Berries can be full of fiber: listed as __#grams fiber per cup Acai, Blackberries (7.4gf), Blueberries (3.5gf), cranberries, and Raspberries (8gf).  

Organic strawberries are nice as cocktail foods. You can add to them whipped cream, cream, powdered sugar, syrup, and /or chocolate: outside and in or you may let them stand alone, and eat them by the stem.  You could serve strawberries with black pepper and vanilla. *8 c 1 cup 1 ¼ cup c 3.8gf.  You can store rinse strawberries in a bowl of water. Thanks Jeff. Get a small vegetable peeler to use to poke an opening in the back of berries so that dark chocolate can be inserted into them. You can dip them in quick shell chocolate, and place them on wax paper in the refrigerator until it hardens.

You could serve Mixed Berries or a mixed berry salad tossed with honey and lemon juice. Blue berries and strawberries cut in half make an awesome two-some on a plate. Informally, cut fruit and berries can be eaten and shared with toothpicks. Other fruits that can be served as cocktail food include

Red cherries, 

Citrus can be served as cocktail food: Citrus fruit is to be included in or before meals where possible. It can be squeezed in water or placed atop it.

Clementines, or

Grapefruit can be selected for morning, scored in quarters, and around the top, peeled, and eaten alone in wedges, or you can supreme grapefruit: cut the fruit of each segment. For lunch or at night, you can cut a grapefruit in half, cut the sides of each segment and top the fruit with brown sugar and almond flakes before setting it under a broiler for six minutes. This is more an appetizer than a cocktail food. Grapefruit can be used as a base for a great fruit salad. It is said grapefruit can help break down protein, eat what you can of the white part. Check with your doctor to see if this fruit and juice are to be avoided when taking medicine. 1c 1c.

Organic Lemons Organic Limes (You will like these best when you zest.)

Organic Nectarines and

Oranges can be cut or segmented and served.

1 citrus item counts as 1 cup. Organic is best for when you zest.