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Hi I am Betty. Welcome to Betty’s Kitchen, today we are making Company Coleslaw. I have made coleslaw for you before and it was a low calorie variety. So that enough for you really cared for that, it was also sort of vegetable flavored coleslaw. This is going to be more a fruit flavored coleslaw a little different and you can work on this and make it low calorie or just pout in what you like. And make it your own, so we are going to start with this coleslaw. So it all shredded up and it has some cabbage and carrots, I would prefer just to have in my cabbage for this particular one. Because I am going to have my own additives and I didn’t really want to mix it with carrots - but that is all I could find at the grocery store. So that is what we are having.

You need four cups of this, so four cups of chopped or shredded cabbage or if it is a coleslaw mixture that is fine too. Try to get a mixture that doesn’t have two many items in it. Four cups and use a large mixing bowl for this. To this we are going to be adding some mayonnaise and I have this pre-mayonnaise it says fat free. And that saves you a little bit on calories - I always use that even whether I am talking about dieting or not, I just I am used to using it. It tastes the same to me and I know I am saving a little on fat and calories by using it.

So 1/2 cup goes into the mix, now here is something - I got my salt sitting here. I will get that out of the way, just regular salt, I always use iodized. And that is because in some areas of the country there is a problem with thyroid, if you don’t have get enough iodine so you can purchase your salt that way. Next you might not expect this in coleslaw but we are going to put miniature of marsh mallows. Or you don’t have miniature marshmallows, you can just take the larger ones and chop them up, just chop them into quarters - that would be fine. But you don’t really need a lot for this, we are going to take 1/2 cup of the miniature marshmallows right in. And that is where your sweeteners are going to come from mostly.

The rest of the sweetener would come from the pineapples that we are going to put in. So this is really a little bit different coleslaw that you might be use to. What I need is an eight ounce can which is this size can, of crushed pineapple. I didn’t happen to have that size can in my pantry but I have the larger one. So I am using the larger one but I am going only use about half of it, this is 20 ounces, I need eight ounces. So a little bit less than half of this would be put in, it is drained. You could see here is what I got by draining it.

And when I have the pineapple, whether it is chunks or crushed or whatever - I bond it by the kind that is in its own juice. I don’t the can in heavy syrup heavy syrup because that is just a lot of sugar added in. Probably makes it taste a little better - I do not to me it really makes the difference but we are going to put eight ounces worth of drained and maybe even squeezed if you can. To get all that liquid out, so I am putting some in and I am leaving a little more than half in the can. And I will find the good use for that later on, now I am going to stir this around but before I do that, it does need a little bit of liquid. But it needs to be very control, so we are going to take one tablespoon of the pineapple juice.

It is not quite here. I am going to get this a little bit more, one tablespoon. Just to make it so you could start it around if it is not mixable then it is not going to work very well. So I am just going to stir this is with a large spoon. And try to get the pineapple and the marshmallows and the cabbage or the cabbage mixture. All mix together and then what you are going to do is put it in your serving bowl and we are going to decorate it up on the top just a little bit. And then we will cover it and put it in the refrigerator, you will see that it looks very dry right now.

But as it sits, that pineapple will draw moisture out of the cabbage and vice versa. And also the marshmallows will tend to meltdown a little bit and the mayonnaise will become more liquid. So this will be not as dry as it looks right now but that is basically your mixture. So you are going to move this to a nice serving bowl, on here I have the bowl that I plan to serve it in and just spoon that out. And if you want to make changes in this, you could leave out the marshmallows and if you are dieting, you could put artificial sweetener. Because as I said that is where most of our sweetness is coming from and that setting a few calories to your dish that you might not want. Otherwise what we have here is pineapple which is sweet but it is a very healthy thing to be eating is canned fruit.

If you wanted to use fresh fruit it would be fine except you wouldn’t be able to get the texture that you need from the crushed pineapple. Once you get this in your serving bowl, if you happen to have some pineapple chunks which I did. Then if you will put a few pineapple chunks along the top and I am just going to take a fork and get a few of this out. Just to show you the look that your dish is going to have, this is certainly not necessary.

Actually I was stop tell you, I thought this was crushed pineapple, when I opened it and I thought it was getting the right sized can and everything. And it was pineapple chunks, although honestly in my recipe the top is to be decorated with pineapple chunks. So one more and there we go, this is our Company Coleslaw and I hope you like it.