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Melon Snowmen Kebabs

Ingredients

  • 1 honeydew melon, seeds removed and scooped into balls

  • 2 lbs. or about 40 strawberries, green tops sliced off

  • 2 bananas, cut into 1/4 inch slices

  • 40 blueberries or about 1/2 cup

  • 40 raisins, cut in half or about 2 tbsp.

  • 40 wooden skewers

Directions

  1. Slide one blueberry onto a skewer. Slide strawberry onto skewer, end pointing toward blueberry. Slide banana slice onto skewer. Follow by three melon balls. If melon balls aren’t perfectly spherical, just twist imperfect side to the back.

  2. Using extra skewer or the tine of a fork, poke two holes into the top melon ball. Tuck raisin half into each hole, using skewer or tine to push it in.

  3. Repeat with each skewer. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Per Serving

Serves 10; serving size is four skewers. Each serving provides: 80 calories, 0 g total fat (0 g saturated fat, 0 g trans fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 20 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 15 g sugar, and 1 g protein.

 

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