Vanilla Fruit Salad for Sixty Plus

Fruit salad for a big crowd! Creamy and delicious-make this the night before so it has time to get nice and cold. "Cooking" time listed is actually "chilling" time for the completed dish.

• Ready In: 8 hrs 10 mins
• Serves: 64

Ingredients

• 5 (20 ounce) cans pineapple chunks (reserve juice!)
• 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple chunks (reserve juice)
• 4 (5 1/8ounce) boxes vanilla instant pudding mix
• 8 (15 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
• 10  red apples, chopped

Directions

1. Drain pineapple, reserving juice.
2. Place pudding mix in large bowl.
3. Measure pineapple juice, and add as much water as needed to make 6 cups.
4. Stir pineapple juice into pudding mix until thickened, about 4 or 5 minutes.
5. Fold fruit into pudding.
6. Divide fruit salad into four 13 x 9 inch pans that have been lightly sprayed with nonstick cooking spray (like Pam)--each pan should hold about 8 cups of fruit salad.
7. Refrigerate until chilled.