Rainbow fruit salad

"But I'm not hungry for fruit"

"I'm hungry" "Well have some fruit then" "I don't waaaaant fruit!"

I imagine this refrain is being heard in homes all over the country as we are in the middle of the school summer holidays and the weather has been unusually amazing.

Some people lose their appetite and eat less over the holidays. Not my kids. Their hunger is non-stop, their appetites unabated however many meals or snacks I prepare.

The contents of the fruit bowl are often rejected so I came up with this rainbow fruit salad platter as a way of making fruit more exciting - and it worked!

They loved it and even tried something new - the chopped coconut (the younger two) and cantaloupe melon (the middle child).

Use your favourite fruits to make this healthy rainbow fruit salad

This is a really flexible fruit salad. Use any fruit you like that roughly fits into the colour scheme of a rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Clouds can be made out of fresh coconut or for a less healthy option, marshmallows.

NB: I got told off by Miss R for not including indigo and violet.

Try this fruit salad at a birthday party

This fruit salad is also a great recipe to make for a kids birthday party - where the food offerings are more often than not rather unhealthy!

Here are more ideas for healthy kids party food.

Eat the rainbow

For another way to eat the rainbow check out my rainbow wraps recipe.

See more of my fruit recipes. Or you might also like this Christmassy fruit salad.

How to make a rainbow fruit salad

It's really just as simple as choosing as many different coloured fruits as possible and displaying them on a platter.

I've made mine in a rainbow shape and have used some chopped fresh coconut to make little clouds at the end of my rainbow.

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