Fruit Salad III

Ingredients

 * 1 pound dried raisins
 * 1 pound papaya
 * 1 pound pineapple
 * mango
 * nuts as desired (walnuts, roasted almonds)
 * fresh and frozen fruits

Directions

 * 1) Add the above ingredients in a bowl.
 * 2) Finish it off by adding fresh and frozen fruits.
 * 3) berries give it a lovely color, hard apples a nice crunch (don't use anything mealy), kiwi and/or green grapes for color, star fruit for eye appeal, etc.
 * 4) Even when there isn't much fresh fruit available—or time to cut it up—frozen berries are nice.
 * 5) It is best if it blends about an hour before serving but i would rather add the fresh/frozen fruit at the last minute (even if it is cut up ahead) than have it lose it's shape and eye-appeal by being mixed in too long.
 * 6) I usually garnish it with the prettiest of the fresh fruit.