SpongeBob made me do it!

Stop&Shop is giving out colorful activity sheets featuring Nickelodeon characters to promote fruits and vegetables. Each sheet highlights a vegetable or fruit, and includes a "great recipe for parents and children to make together" and "parent tips" on how to prepare the produce and ways to serve it. It's sort of like a culinary public service announcement. The question is: are the recipes any good?

I made the "Tropical Sunrise Parfait" from the sheet featuring Pineapple, and, appropriately, SpongeBob Squarepants, who loves pineapples enough to live in one.

I'll definitely make it again.

This recipe makes 4 servings, but I made it as 2 generous servings, as a small meal.

Buying almonds that are already toasted would make the preparation time even shorter than the 15 minutes the recipe states.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups pineapple chunks or tibits, canned in juice, drained

(This is a whole 20-ounce can of pineapple. I mix the juice with some seltzer and call it a spritzer.)

1 cup raspberries (fresh or frozen)

1 cup low-fat vanilla yogurt

1 medium banana, sliced

1/2 cup dates, chopped, or raisins (I used raisins.)

1/4 cup whole almonds, toasted and chopped

Instructions:

Heat oven to 300F. Put almonds on non-stick baking pan. Place in oven 5-6 minutes, shake pan several times during toasting. Remove from oven, cool, and coarsely chop. While the almonds are toasting, layber the pineapple, raspberries, yogurt, banana, and dates in parfait glasses. (I used tall drinking glasses.) Sprinkle the almonds on top and serve.

I used frozen raspberries, so I made the parfaits a couple hours ahead of time and put them in the fridge so the berries would thaw out before serving.

This is how the parfaits came out. Sadly, the best light in my kitchen is in the fridge. (Though it's nice that I have good healthy food in there, a fridge to be proud of, worth photographing, even.)