From: Sukie D.

Ingredients:

• In season fruit (pick three or four)
• Strawberries
• Watermelon Chunks
• Seedless grapes
• Apples
• Blueberries
• Pears
• Bananas
• Peaches
• Plums
• Oranges
• Cantaloupe
• Honeydew
• Fresh lemon juice
• Kabob sticks
• 1 whole pineapple
• 1 bag sugar-free chocolate chips
• ½ Tbsp. “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”
• 1 Ziplock Bag
• Kitchen Scissors
• Drill and a very small drill bit

Directions:

1. Clean and cut fruit to like sizes.
2. Squirt some lemon juice on top of the fruit to prevent it from browning.
3. Stick all different kinds of fruit pieces on the sticks; be sure to leave about 2 inches of the stick to hold.
4. Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler, add the butter and stir.
5. Put melted chocolate into a ziplock bagand snip the very corner off the bag with the kitchen scissors.
6. Drip the chocolate over the fruit.
7. Chill until chocolate is set.
8. Using the drill and bit, drill holes around the outside of the whole pineapple.
9. Once the kabobs are chilled, place each kabob into one of the drilled holes.

The end result: a beautiful, bariatric friendly centerpiece.

Appropriate for:

Gastric Bypass: 3 months+
Lap-Band: 6 weeks