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Who loves bananas? At our house, we are huge banana fans. That is why I was very excited when DOLE asked me to help promote the “Peel the Love” tour. That’s right a DOLE Peel the love food truck will be traveling around the country bringing the goodness of DOLE bananas and Blue Almond Diamond Breeze Almond milk to the people. The truck is making stops across the country from Memorial Day to Labor Day. From now until July 7th, the truck will be in Phoenix, Arizona. I’ve added a list of the stops in Phoenix at the bottom of the post. To see where else the Peel the Love Tour is headed, check out the Peel the Love website.

DOLE graciously sent me an awesome package of goodies to put together a fun get together to celebrate the tour. We had such a great time! The highlight of the party was a Yonanas machine. Yonanas takes frozen over-ripe bananas and  other fruits and turns it into a soft serve ice cream. That’s all you need, frozen bananas and other mix-in ingredients. We LOVE it. 
It’s hot outside in Phoenix, so to start out our party we had a little fun outside with Super Soakers.

Once we all worked up an appetite we came inside to enjoy all kinds of fun banana foods.We had banana pudding, banana bread made with DOLE bananas(recipe coming soon), and I raided the specialty candy store for all things banana. 

While everyone was enjoy the food, I was taking orders for the Yonanas. First, I have to show you the cute margarita glasses that DOLE sent. We don’t drink alcohol, but these were perfect for serving up our Yonanas ice cream. To fancy things up a bit, I put mini vanilla wafers on the rim of each glass. It was so easy to use a serrated knife and saw a line half way through the cookie. 

Here’s the yonanas machine hard at work. You feed your frozen fruit into the top and delicious ice cream comes out the bottom.

Here’s the finished product. My favorite combination was DOLE bananas with strawberries and nuts.

You can see that everyone really enjoyed their ice cream. We tried all kinds of different fruit and toppings. They were all delicious.
To keep going with the theme, we let the kids watch Bananas in Pyjamas and Bruno and the Banana Bunch on Netflix. 

As promised, here are all the Peel the Love stops in Phoenix. 

June 29, 2013: After Dark in the Park — 19602 N 19Th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 6PM – 10PM

June 30, 2013: Walmart — 6145 N 35th Ave, Phoenix,AZ 4PM – 7PM
July 2, 2013: Walmart — 15355 N Northsight Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 4PM – 6PM
July 3, 2013: Independence Day Music Festival — 7555 N Pima Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 5PM – 9PM
July 4, 2013: Fabulous Phoenix 4th — 300 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, AZ 6PM – 10PM
July 5, 2013: Walmart — 5250 W Indian School Rd, Phoenix, AZ 4PM – 7PM 
July 6, 2013: Phoenix Zoo — 455 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ  9AM – 2PM 
July 7, 2013: Walmart — 7975 W Peoria Ave, Phoenix, AZ 11AM – 2PM


Disclaimer: I received vouchers for DOLE bananas as well as products to facilitate a party. All opinions are my own. 

Ashley




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