Fruit Salad with Creamy Dreamy Dip

I’m SO excited to share today’s post with you! I’m going to be collaborating with my beautiful friend Val to bring you guys some awesome healthy recipes geared toward little ones. Val is an Army wife and a mom to two adorable little boys, Conner and Jackson. We’ve known each other for years because we’re part of a special group of women (HIII KNOTTIES, I LOVE YOU!!!) who all got married in the same month. She happens to also be a mommy blogger so when she had the idea that we could work together of course I said yes! For our collaborations I’ll be developing the recipes and Val will make sure that they’re kid approved. Without further ado, here’s our first recipe!

Val told me that she likes to make sure her son’s meals are nice and colorful! That’s great because eating the rainbow is one of the best ways to make sure that we’re getting good nutrition in. Since everyone loves fruit salad (right?), it seemed like a great choice for our first recipe. But I wanted to make it a little more fun and interesting for kids, so I thought a dip would be the perfect thing!

This dip is so good that I may or may not have been eating it with a spoon…but it makes the perfect pair with any fresh fruit that your kids love! I thought this would go great with some whole wheat flatbread and a soft-boiled egg for a quick and easy lunch or even dinner! But of course you can serve it with whatever you like.

Here’s the recipe:

Then I brought in my little helper! Conner loved dumping the fruit into a large bowl and mixing them together. He also loved sampling each fruit before he dumped them…

While C Man dumped and mixed the fruit, I prepped the Creamy Dreamy Dip. I absolutely loved this recipe because it was SO easy. In addition to kid meal time and snacks, I would (and will!) totally make this for parties, BBQs, potlucks etc. This dip is definitely a crowd pleaser!

I served up our fruit salad with a dollop of dip on top. How beautiful is this?!

And we have a winner!

Conner ate THREE helpings of this in one day. Three! He loved dipping his fruit pieces in the “cream”. This will be a healthy snack staple for us now! OH. Bonus?! Try a little leftover fruit and Creamy Dreamy Dip on top of a waffle for breakfast. You’ll thank me later 🙂

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I hope you guys enjoyed it! Keep an eye out for more good stuff coming soon from Kid Kitchen! 😉 And don’t forget to check out Val at her blog This Whole Mommy Thing!

-Lauren