Dole Fall Blogger Summit Featuring Disney's Frozen 2

I am an official ambassador for Dole. Dole provided me with compensation to attend this event and to provide my recap below. All opinions expressed are my own.

Last week, I had the unique privilege of attending the Dole Fall Blogger Summit featuring Disney’s Frozen 2. It took place in the Wellness Kitchen at the California Health & Longevity Institute adjacent to the Dole Offices in Westlake Village, CA. We learned about 20 new fruit-and-vegetable-based recipes inspired by Frozen 2 characters, all of which will serve to entice kids to eat more fruits and veggies. As a parent of two, I’m all about finding new ways to help my kids to eat healthier!

The Summit began with breakfast featuring some of the fabulous new Frozen 2 themed recipes created by Melanie Marcus, MA, RD, Dole’s Nutrition and Health Communications Manager. We enjoyed Make-Ahead Frozen Brrr-eakfast Bites and Sven Sleigh-Pulling Power Smoothies along with fresh fruit and juices. Our group heard from speakers including William Goldfield, Director of Communications and Disney Brand Steward for Dole Food Company as well as Rebecca Skolmutch, Senior Manager of Global Health & Wellness Compliance for The Walk Disney Company.

Then, we stepped into the Wellness Kitchen and got some insight into Dole’s healthy-living initiatives from Melanie Marcus and also heard from Paulette Lambert, MD, RD, Director of Nutrition for the California Health & Longevity Institute. Then, it was time to get hands on! We donned our Dole aprons and got to work in the kitchen creating our own versions of the Dole Snow-flower Pizza and Frozen Banana Split Cups.

For lunch, we enjoyed several more of the new Dole Frozen 2 recipes including Arendelle Coronation Seafood Stew, the Olaf Carrot Smoothie Bowl and my personal fave, Enchanted Forest Sweet Potato Cardamom Pie. We also got to eat our freshly baked Dole Snow-flower Pizzas! We each took home a fabulous swag bag filled with Frozen 2 merchandise that just hit stores last week.

It truly was an amazing event and I was so excited to have been invited! Thank you to our hosts at Dole and Disney for such a fun and informative event. Stay tuned for an Instagram post in the coming weeks featuring one of these fun recipes that will include an amazing giveaway of a Dole and Frozen 2 Prize Pack!