I am lucky enough to have two kids that LOVE fruit. I only make it to the grocery store once a week, so I will buy fresh fruit for the beginning of the week and then grab a couple of cans for later in the week. Their favorite canned fruit is the Dole Pineapple Chunks.
Here is some information about Dole from their website: Founded in Hawaii in 1851, Dole Food Company, Inc., with 2007 revenues of $6.9 billion, is the world’s largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. Dole markets a growing line of packaged and frozen foods, and is a produce industry leader in nutrition education and research Dole has earned this reputation over the last 154 years thanks to its unwavering commitment to fulfill its customers’ needs and consumers’ expectations in the critical areas of quality assurance, food safety, traceability, environmental responsibility and social accountability.
Here are some facts about Dole Canned Fruit:
-DOLE Canned Fruit comes in three different varieties: Mandarin Oranges, Pineapple and Tropical Fruit.
Convenient and ready-to-eat, DOLE Canned Fruit is the one of the best ways to have fruit always on hand in your pantry.
-DOLE Canned Fruit is naturally fat free, saturated fat free, cholesterol free, and rich in vitamin C.
-DOLE Canned Fruit has been awarded the ChefsBest award by the American Culinary ChefsBest.
-DOLE Canned Pineapple is a convenient, ready-to-eat product. For your convenience, DOLE Canned Pineapple is available in slices, chunks, tidbits and crushed.
-DOLE Tropical Fruit is a combination of hand-selected pineapple and red and yellow papaya chunks packed in light syrup and passion fruit juice.
-DOLE 100% Pineapple Juice and Pineapple Mango Juice are packed with real fruit taste and always have the flavor adventure you’ve been craving.
Dole was nice enough to send my family a coupon for a can of fruit to try. Wyatt picked pineapple chunks, of course.LOL As always, both Wyatt and Blake ate their pineapple and then asked for seconds. Wade and I even have a taste of fruit on pineapple night!
Do you have a recipe that your family loves that uses Dole canned fruit? Then check out the information below about their California Cook-Off Recipe Contest:
From home cook to celebrity chef! Five lucky finalists will win more than just their 15 minutes of fame with a trip for two to sunny LA where they will participate in the California Cook-Off event with celebrity chef Ben Ford. With airfare, three nights’ accommodations, a rental car and spending money included, you’ll be living your very own California dream!
Just visit www.DoleCookOff.com to enter your signature recipe for an entrée that highlights at least one can of DOLE Fruit or Juice. Using DOLE Pineapple, Mandarin Oranges, Tropical Fruit, Pineapple Juice or Pineapple Mango Juice, as well as no more than seven additional ingredients, you will be automatically entered to win this ultimate California cooking experience.
Judging criteria for the Grand Prize Winner will be based on:
-Best use of DOLE Canned Fruit or Juice
-Creativity
-Flavor and taste
The California Cook-Off event will be held at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts, one of the most well-respected culinary schools in California. You will be teamed up with a professional blogger as your “sous” chef, who will chronicle the cooking process and feature your dish on their site! This blogger will be on hand to help with your dish and share the experience with you with their readers.
Plus the Grand Prize winning recipe will appear on cans of DOLE Fruit nationwide!
Don’t forget to keep coming back to www.DoleCookOff.com for more chances to enter your favorite recipes, as well as discover great new recipes to try out!
WIN INSTANTLY AT WWW.DOLECOOKOFF.COM- The California Cook-Off Instant Win Game offers even more chances to win with DOLE. All you have to do is register at www.DoleCookOff.com, and you’ll be automatically entered to win one of more than 100 great prizes from Cooking.com And tell your friends! For each friend you tell about the DOLE Cook-Off, you’ll get an additional entry to win!
Hurry up and enter now, because you can only submit entries until April 30th!
Do you have a recipe to enter? Dole has offered one lucky reader a chance to win TWO coupons, each good for one can of fruit to help you try out some new dishes. For your chance to win, just follow the rules below.
How to Enter:
1) Tell me which Dole canned fruit you would use in your recipe.
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REVIEW IS MY OPINION. THANK YOU TO HARAJUKU LOVERS FOR SUPPLYING THIS PRODUCT FOR REVIEW.
The fruit salad
I WOULD USE PINEAPPLE IN MY SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN
I wanna try the pineapple whip.
Thanks for the chance.
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I would use crushed pineapple~any recipe I make with it would be yummy!
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I like their mixed fruit for ambrosia.
I could use crushed pineapple in my carrot salad
not sure what I’d make but know I’ll use peaches – my favorite
I like using the crushed pineapple or pineapple chunks in sweetheart salad
I would use pineapple in pineapple upside down cake.
I would use pineapple in Sweet & Sour Chicken.
Awesome blog and thanks for the giveaway!
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I’m a fan of the mixed fruit…it can be used with lots and lots of recipes!
The Dole Pineapple is great on our homemade Hawaiian Pizza!
I would use the pineapple tidbits in a cheese balls. Thanks!
I would use the peaches for peach cobbler!
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I would make a new salad with the Mandarin oranges.
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I use crushed pineapple.
I follow Dole on Twitter…@ambreprn
Pineapple chunks
I would use pineapple chunks.
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Pineapple, I use it alot in recipes.
I use the crushed pineapple in my fruit salad!
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I’d like to use the Dole Crushed Pineapple for Cookie bars!
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I use Mandarin oranges and pinapple chunks in a fruit salad I make
I would use the crushed pineapple in a recipe.
I use mixed fruit in jello
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I would use the pineapple tidbits in a pineapple upside down cake.
The crushed pinapple in a “junk” cake
I would use crushed pineapple in my pineapple upside down cake recipe!
I would use DOLE Crushed Pineapple in the Watergate Salad recipe :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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I like to use mandarin oranges in my fruit salad.
I’d use canned pineapple
the pineapple. I make pineapple upside down cake alot.
Crushed pineapple for my carrot cake.
i would use the dole sliced pineapple on my pineapple upside down cake:)
pineapple rings for pineapple upside down cake
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