Labor Day Beverages

 Tropical Punch

6 medium bananas, ripened
12 oz. frozen lemonade
10 cups water
1 can frozen 12 oz. orange juice
1/2 c. sugar
1 - 20 oz. can crushed pineapple with juice
1 - 2 liter Lemon lime soda
Melons balls, 1 lime, 1 kiwi (peeled and sliced)

Process the bananas with lemonade in a food processor until smooth....Add the water, orange juice and sugar and mix well. Freeze in loaf pans covered with plastic wrap until needed. When ready for party ...place this frozen, slushy mixture into punchbowl and slowly add the soda....stirring carefully....Place melon balls, kiwi, and lime on top to float.

Georgia's Holiday Punch

1 - 46 oz. can of Hi C or Hawaiian Punch
1 - 12 oz. frozen lemonade, mixed with 3 cans water
2 - 2 liters Sprite or Squirt or 7 Up (depending on your taste)
1 - 20 oz. can crushed pineapple (don't drain)
1 small can mandarin oranges
1 frozen package strawberries
1 kiwi - peeled and sliced
1 lime - washed and thinly sliced
1 quart Rainbow colored sherbert

Empty all the cans and packages of fruit into the bottom of the punch bowl. Add the diluted lemonade, Hawaiian Punch, and mix slowly. Empty the container of sherbert on top of this and pour slowly the 2 liters of Sprite....Stir slowly...breaking up the sherbert. On top of this place a few of lime slices and kiwi and let them float.....I have a huge punch bowl and go through 5 batches of this for the night. When one batch is done....I may not add quite as much fruit each time...experience will help you decide.....