Old-Fashioned Fruit Salad - A Fruit Salad Recipe with Pudding
This Old-Fashioned Fruit Salad might be the ultimate kid-friendly side dish or dessert. With only four ingredients, this fruit salad is perfect for a cookout, pitch-in, barbecue or whatever you call a gathering with lots and lots of food!
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time0 minutes mins
Refrigeration Time8 hours hrs
Total Time8 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: fruit salad with marshmallows, fruit salad with pudding, fruit salad with pudding mix, old-fashioned fruit salad, vanilla pudding fruit salad, vanilla pudding marshmallow fruit salad
Servings: 8
Calories: 209kcal
Author: Barbara
- 15 oz. can undrained fruit cocktail
- 15 oz. can undrained mandarin oranges
- 10 oz. bag miniature marshmallows
- 3.4 oz. pkg instant vanilla pudding
Combine both cans fruit and marshmallows.
Sprinkle dry pudding mix over fruit; mix well.
Refrigerate overnight or for 6-8 hours.
- Do not drain the mixed fruit or mandarin oranges.
- Feel free to change it up with different cans of fruit, whatever your family prefers. Canned pineapple, peaches, pears, or even tropical mixed fruit would be fun.
- Try swapping in different flavors of instant pudding including lemon or banana cream.
- Barbara's oldest daughter put this fruit salad together for her, and she is only 7. It is that easy!
- You basically open two cans of fruit and a bag of mini marshmallows and dump them into a bowl. Once they are mixed together, sprinkle a box of vanilla pudding over it and stir.
- This Old-Fashioned Fruit Salad needs to be refrigerated for at least 6 hours before serving. You can make it the day before you want to serve it and refrigerate overnight.
- Love these old recipes? Try Classic Ambrosia or Grandma's Cherry Fluff.
- Please note the carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information vary greatly depending on products you use. The nutritional information below are auto-calculated and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
Calories: 209kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.04g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.04g | Sodium: 111mg | Potassium: 124mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 42g | Vitamin A: 808IU | Vitamin C: 19mg | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 0.4mg