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Dream Salad
submitted by Wisesong

This is one of my family's favorite holiday recipes. My mom always made it, and now I do too.

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Ingredients:

1 large container of small curd low-fat cottage cheese
1 large pkg. (or 2 small) gelatin (use orange for Thanksgiving; raspberry for Christmas)
1 large can crushed pineapple
2 small cans of mandarin oranges
1 large container of Cool Whip® whipped topping

Directions:

Mix cottage cheese and DRY gelatin mix.  Drain off all the juice from the crushed pineapple and the mandarin oranges and add them to the cottage cheese mixture.  Fold in Cool Whip® and chill 1-2 hours (you can also make this the night before) before serving.

If you want to add chopped nuts or mini-marshmallows, you can.  It's soooo good and takes 5 minutes to make!  We have it at every holiday gathering, and everyone loves it.

Editor's note: The photo used for this recipe is not what the finished product will look like, it's just a very pretty photo we wanted to use! :o) 

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