Dole Frozen Fruit Smoothies Party

Being that I’ve blogged for Dole in the past I am occassionally asked when they want me to get the word out about new products.  I was asked if I would like to have a Smoothie party to get the word out about their new frozen fruits.  Now in my house we love having parties, so we said yes.  I invited some friends, and family over.  For doing this Dole sent me a box of party supplies, and some gifts for my guests as a thank you.  What was in the box were cups, straws, Dole coupons for me, and my guest, picture coasters for my guest, and a 10 dollar iTunes gift card for me.  I was told that I could find smoothie recipes at Dole.com.  This was a good thing because I never made a smoothie before.  I also found out at the web site that you don’t have to use the frozen fruit for just smoothies.  People had a lot of cool recipes on the Dole website.  I found a simple smoothie recipe.  To make it the recipe called for vanilla yogurt, Dole bananas, and Dole frozen fruit.  It doesn’t get any simpler than that, so that’s what I went with.  The website also showed that there were at least 13 different kinds of frozen fruits to choose from at the supermarket.  The store by me only had 3 kinds, and they were blueberries, mixed berries, and whole and sliced strawberries.  My mother in law told me the one by her had mango.  That does sound like it would have been a good smoothie.

Now when party time came we had at least 20 people here between the adults, and the kids.  I started to make the first batch with no problem, and it went fast.  Everyone loved it, so on to the next one.  That’s when we had a big problem.  My blender went bye-bye on me.  Now this was not good.  One of my friends said they would lend me theirs, but there was no need because I remembered that I had a smoothie maker.  Now with the kids happy we moved to the grownups.  I made the next ones, and this time I wanted to show everyone how easy it was to do.  Well now I know why they say too many cooks in the kitchen is not good.  Some wanted to know why there was no juice.  Hubby said that’s why my mixer went.  I told them that the recipes that I got from the Dole site didn’t call for juice.  Then someone said the coupons have a recipe on them that call for juices.  To make everyone, and hubby happy I added a little water to the mix.  By doing this it made a little more smoothies, and everyone agreed that they were still just as sweet.

Everyone had a great time, and even shared some recipes on how they would use the Dole frozen bags of fruit.  When we were out of smoothies the kids and adults were a little upset, but I used 4 bags of fruit, and everyone got at least two smoothies out of it.

I would like to thank dole for the opportunity to have a smoothie party, and my guests for making time to come.

We were given the party kit so as to review the Dole frozen fruit.  Receiving this kit had no effect on the outcome of my review.

Tags: Dole, frozen fruit, party, smoothies, smoothy