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It’s springtime and I am always looking for ways to eat healthy for the upcoming warmer seasons.

Dole and Marvel have come together to help make healthy eating fun and easy. Inspired by Dole’s multi-year healthy-living initiative with Disney starting in 2016, this alliance allows people to share their healthy eating stories. From consumer promotions and in-store activities inspired by Marvel characters and films to character-themed recipes and specially branded DOLE fruits and vegetables, this offers a creative way to help me eat healthier every day.

Everyone knows I am a huge Marvel fan.  Their movies are always full of excitement and don’t even get me started on the animations.  Someone pinch me I’m still in shock about my Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Hollywood premiere experience.

My favorite part about Marvel movies is that there is always a take away, a lesson to be learned, something about the movie that just makes you think – wow, anything is possible.  Maybe your destined to be a superhero…or maybe you’re just ready to cook like one. 🙂

With the new Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War coming out on April 27, Dole and Marvel are aligning with the Powering the Hero Within program, aimed to inspire people and families to create healthy Marvel Character-Inspired Dole Recipes.

Some of my favorite recipes include:

The Liberty Banana Sushi Inspired by Captain America

Prep: 10 minutes

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

• 1 DOLE® Banana, peeled
• 1/4 cup cashew nut butter, almond butter, or nonfat Greek yogurt
• 1 to 2 teaspoons crispy rice cereal
• 1 to 2 teaspoons chia seeds

Directions

• UT banana into 8 equal pieces.
• SPREAD cut ends of banana with nut butter or yogurt.
• DIP banana pieces in cereal and chia seeds.

The Smash Smoothie Inspired by Hulk

Prep: 10 minutes

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup fresh DOLE® Tropical Gold® Pineapple, diced
• 1/2 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze® Almond Milk
• 1 pkg. (5 oz.) DOLE® Organic Baby Spinach
• ½ cup chopped DOLE® Celery
• 1 cup DOLE® Green Grapes
• 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
• 1 DOLE® Banana, peeled and sliced
• 3 tablespoons milled chia seeds

Directions

• COMBINE fresh pineapple, almond milk and baby spinach in an emulsifier blender. Cover; blend until smooth.
• Add celery, grapes and ginger.
• Cover; blend until smooth. Add banana and chia seeds.
• Cover; blend until smooth.

Who else is excited for this Dole and Marvel partnership? In preparation for the new Avengers: Infinity War movie, get the scoop on 7 Things We Noticed in the Trailer.

**This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Marvel. Dole and Hasbro are the sole sponsors of these prizes, however the giveaway is solely owned, administered, solicited and operated by me.