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| |  Posted 7/1/2007 12:12:33 PM | |
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| | Here is a recipe for fruit dip that everyone loves: 1 pkg cream cheese (8 oz) room temperature 1 jar marshmallow creme apple juice (any juice can be used) Mix first 2 ingred. with a mixer. Add juice to make dip desired consistancy. We amke it thinner for fruit salad and a little thicker for dip. ------------------ Another suggestion. Take a hint from McDonalds - use caramel dip. Has anyone checked to see if McD's will donate the dip from apple dippers? If not you can buy it in containers at the grocery store (usually in the fruit dept). |
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| | | Posted 7/1/2007 7:28:54 PM | |
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| | We modified Day 4 (trying to get that much ice cream for over 400 people (children, youth & adults) was just too expensive so we used pudding with the crushed oreo on top (and the cherry). It was okay - but not a great hit. Day 5 did not go over well at all. We taste tested a couple dips, but the apples browned (and were a lot of work to cut up) and the kids didn't like them much. We learned not to do pudding or apples again. Day 3 we did marshmallows (the little ones for elementary and the big ones for preschool) and chocolate icing. The kids got to make their own walls of Jericho - and it was a ton of fun and the kids loved marshmallows (more than I thought they would). Karen in FL |
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| | | Posted 7/1/2007 9:41:55 PM | |
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| | To keep apples from browning - you can buy a product called "Fruit Fresh." It comes in a shaker can, usually by the spices/baking supplies. It works really well and we use it often (including when we cater and do large amounts of fruit). Some people dip the apples in all sorts of stuff - from lemon juice, pineapple juice, to soda. However, all the fruit I have seen done this way tends to brown, at least a little. You can put a lot of slices in a bowl, shake on a little Fruit Fresh, stir it (or cover the bowl and shake it) and that is ALL you have to do. The fruit (including bananas) does not turn brown. Some people use straight powdered absorbic acid, but the fruit fresh is milder. Has anyone contacted a milk company about donating individual ice cream cups? My brother worked for Producer's milk for years and often donated items to churches/schools (you have to contact guys who own their routes, or else contact the parent company to see if they will donate). They need tax deductions like everyone else. I plan to contact our local McDonalds and see if they will donate the apple dippers. Never hurts to ask. We always make up a power point presentation listing all companies who donated (for the last night finale), and also include them on a newsletter/bulletin given to attendees. |
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| | | Posted 7/1/2007 9:48:50 PM | |
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| One of our snacks workers said that if you keep your apple slices in a container with sprite, they won't brown. I havent tried it, though. My snack leaders are doing a minor overhaul that day- they are substituting a cream cheese/whipped cream/something else mixture for the cream cheese and chocolate sprinkles for the brown sugar- they are afraid the sugar would make too much of a mess.
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| | | Posted 7/2/2007 10:33:47 AM | |
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| | Our kids surprisingly LOVED the apple dip. All of them I think. Perhaps it was because if they didn't like cream cheese, they could eat plain brown sugar! An alternative to that cream cheese dip is cream cheese & marshmallow fluff mixed together. Now THAT is yummy. 1 Pkg cream cheese, 1 small jar marshmallow cream. Mix up. Eat it! Laura in La |
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| | | Posted 7/5/2007 1:06:19 PM | |
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| | Just a suggestion for alternatives to the cream cheese dip: instant butterscotch pudding. Or this very easy and tasty Caramel Apple Dip: 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1 8oz. pkg softened cream cheese, 2 tsp vanilla. Mix together with a mixer until smooth. Will keep in refrigerator up to a week. Makes 2 cups. |
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| | | Posted 7/6/2007 8:29:55 AM | |
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| | We don't have the children prepare the snacks. Members of the congregation donate these and have them ready for snack time when we all eat together. We've come up with the following: Day 1: Spy Guy Trail Mix - Cheez-it Party Mix Day 2: Stick With Us Sandwiches Day 3: Tumbling Jericho Walls (Crackers & Cheese - no pepperoni) Day 4: Not sure if we're using ice cream or puddings Day 5: Nachos/chips & dip Laura in Cayman |
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| | | Posted 7/13/2007 8:46:40 PM | |
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| | Just wanted to post our findings. The 'smores with marshmello fluff were the favorite. The kids loved everything except for tonight's - day 5. The bags we used for the cream cheese burst, so it ended up being mixed in a bowl and spooned out. Then the kids didn't like it. Our snack person said we should have used vanilla yogurt. That's what they get at McDonald's with apples anyway. Otherwise everything was great. |
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| | | Posted 7/13/2007 9:14:06 PM | |
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| | Plain creme cheese isn't to good. Mc D serves caramel with apple dippers and the vanilla yogurt (which is yuck) with apple walnut salad. |
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| | | Posted 7/17/2007 10:36:12 AM | |
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| We do snacks as its own site in the rotation so each crew makes and eats their own snacks during their snack time. We did snacks as written except:
Tuesday we did "s'mores on a stick". Basically, you melt chocolate chips in a large bowl, put crushed graham crackers in another bowl. Then you put the marshmallow on a skewer, dip in the melted chocolate and roll in the graham crackers. For the little ones we pulled the marshmallow off the stick for them to eat it rather than eating off the skewer.
Wednesday the pepperoni was not eaten but we also had bologna which was liked more. The cheese we had was sticking to the paper plates so we had to give it to the kids already on the crackers.
Ice cream was a big hit and surprisingly the kids ate up all the apples with the cream cheese (we bought the whipped style) dip.
Good luck,
Laura |
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