Fruit Salad

We aren't talking about your deli's fruit salad. I absolute hate that stuff with all of the whipped cream on top of the sweet fruit. This was one of the first things I got to help my mom make for Thanksgiving.
I start with 2 large apples. I prefer Fuji apples, they are my favorites.I also like the red color, makes more of an impression than a green apple in this salad. You can cut all of the fruit up into the size you want for the kids, or what you can fit into your mouth. Then I slice 3 large bananas. Next is pineapple. After eating fresh pineapple, I can't go back to canned pineapple. But, if you want to use a large can of cut pineapple, that will work as well. Since I hate spending the extra money on a large fresh pineapple, I grab an already cut up one from the refrigerated produce section and spend about half the money. Drain two small cans of mandarin oranges.
That's it for the fruit. Then we add 1-2 cups of mini marshmallows. Sometimes, if we have them, Fiona convinces me to use the fruity mini marshmallows because, well it's fruit salad right? Then I chop about a half of a cup of nuts, pecans or walnuts, depending on what we have. This is the only part that Fiona and I disagree on, which might lead to some spitting at the table. I don't know what's up with that kid.
Here's where the secret ingredient comes in. I remember when TD was at our first Thanksgiving together at my parents. I showed him the 1/4-1/2 cup of sour cream that went in when I tossed everything together. He was thoroughly grossed out, but I told him to just try it at dinner. After that we went to his grandma's and he couldn't eat her fruit salad because of the whipped cream in it. I use light sour cream. When you stir everything together, you can get it to your amount of gooey-ness. Most normal kids will eat it, especially with the marshmallows and they can get some of their daily fruit intake.