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We made one yesterday with peaches, strawberries an bananas. We made homemade whipped cream from heavy whipping cream, confectioner's sugar and vanilla. I would have added blueberries if I ja them. No extra sugars, no extra dressing. I do sprinkle lemon juice on my bananas to prevent browning.

I like to add mint, too. Peaches or nectarines, cantaloupe (if you can find a good one) is a good filler melon that's not to expensive.

watermelon, 'filler melon' aka honey dew or cantaloupe- i don't like either so i call them filler melons , strawberries, peaches- i use the ones from TJs in the glass jar because they seem to hold up well, green & red grapes, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries (berries go in last and mostly are just at the top since they're more fragile). i save a big strawberry to slice and fan to put on the top of the salad. i skip bananas and oranges because they don't hold up well, but the canned mandarin ones might work.

I'll have any fruit in my salad. Usually my trick to a fabulous fruit salad in the summer is to hit up the farmers market and grab whatever is in season. That way I end up with a good variety, and all of the fruit is ripe and full of flavor. I try to avoid too much melon. If you want to put in bananas or apple just make sure you don't make it too far in advance, and coat everything in some lemon juice, which will keep the fruit from turning brown.

I just did a red, white and blue fruit salad. When we cut the white fruits (apple, banana, pear) I rolled them quickly in lemon juice. No turning brown. I also did strawberries, red grapes and raspberries for red fruit and blueberries for blue fruit.

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