I enjoy playing around with food and table presentations. Spending just a few extra minutes to make a meal look fantastic can be rewarding to the hands that prepared the meal. Family members will chat away about how unusual it was. Here are a few ideas that I came up with.

Step 1: What You Need

You will need any type of salad and different types of containers.

I used sundae dishes.
Wine glasses.
Jars.
Plastic Sprite bottle.
Small scrap of cloth for lid.
Small scrap of cloth to set jar on.
Box of waffle bowls.
Small battery operated votive candle.
Painted tin can.
Jute for a tie.
Garnish lemon and strawberry.

Step 2: Sprite Salad

Just start playing around with different looks. I really like the larger brighter led lights. Around Halloween they have some that are very nice that I use a lot. I have mine put away where it was too hard to get to. It is a nice way to make a splash.

For this salad I cut a Sprite bottle down to where the bubbles were and evened off the edges on both pieces.
I placed the candle in the bottom of the bottle.
Inverted the top into the bottom.
Filled it with salad.
Added a lemon garnish.

Now isn't that pretty?

Step 3: Fruit Salad

For this fruit salad I:

Cut 2 small pieces of scraps into a square.
I overlapped them so the points were offset.
Filled the jar with fruit salad up to where I wanted the heart.
I carefully cut out a heart from a strawberry and stuck it to the inside of the glass.
I filled the rest with small slices of apple.
Served with an ice tea spoon.
It would have been cute to have a strawberry garnish but I forgot.

Step 4: Sweetheart Salad.

For the Sweetheart salad I used:

Fruit salad.
1 Slice strawberry.
Shallow canning jar.
Tootsie Roll Pop Covered with a scrap of cloth and a jute ribbon.
I used a small scrap of cloth to set it on.
Pinking sheers would give it a nice edge.

Step 5: Waffle Sundae

For the waffle sundae I used:

Waffle bowl.
Fruit salad.
Coconut topping.
Cherry.
Painted canning jar.
Small jute tie.

Step 6: Tin Can Sundae

Tin can sundae:

Painted tin can.
Waffle cone.
Fruit Salad.
Cherry.
Coconut topping.

Or you can just use a sundae dish and add a battery operated votive candle..

Step 7: Sunshiine's Final Thoughts

These are a lot of fun to make. It is a thoughtful way to express your love for family members. My son mentioned the other day that he felt it was real important for families to have a set time to eat everyday. He said that it is a proven fact that families that eat a meal together on a regular base tend to be a closer knit family and stay together. I agree with him. I hope this has given you some ideas on how to spread your love at mealtime.

Thanks for stopping in and have a nice day!

Sunshiine