Pink Ribbons
Breast cancer awareness is vital to society since everyone is directly affected by at least one woman in their lives. There are all sorts of things you can do to help the cause, including holding fund-raising dinners.
Pink Theme
Because pink ribbons are the universal sign for breast cancer awareness, you can carry the pink throughout your dinner from start to finish. Start with the invitations, on pink paper or printed with pink ink. You can tie pink ribbons to the invitations to drive the point home. Everyone can wear pink clothes or accessories and you can decorate with pink streamers, balloons and ribbon.
Appetizers and Drinks
Serving chips with pink salsa is a great idea. You can make the salsa pink by adding strawberries to the tomatoes and other traditional salsa ingredients. Make a salad embellished with strawberries. Creamy soups can be turned to pink fairly easily with the use of food coloring as well. For beverages, you can add pink food coloring to water, sparkling cider, clear sodas or lemonade. Better yet, serve pink (or strawberry) lemonade, red wine, pink grapefruit juice or punch.
Dinner
Pasta with alfredo sauce, dyed pink with food coloring of course, is a spectacular dish. Shrimp with a pink glaze will satisfy everyone's hunger. Hamburgers, hot dogs or chicken can be served with pink colored side dishes such as potato salad, macaroni salad and cottage cheese. Just about any casserole can be dyed pink as well.
Dessert
Pink desserts may be the easiest to make since they're more common. Pink frosted cookies, cakes or cupcakes are a cinch to make. Strawberry mousse, cheesecake, ice cream, shortcake, milkshakes, and plain strawberries and cream are simple choices. You can concoct a large array of pink desserts using strawberries and other berries. Even if you don't host an official breast cancer awareness fund-raiser, gifting these sweet pink treats will still help raise awareness.
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