I was looking for a meal that I could put together in less than thirty minutes, didn't have several ingredients in that my friends are allergic to, and was a true one dish meal. Each serving contains two servings of fruit, one serving of grain, one serving of almonds, and roughly one serving of meat. I suppose any dried fruit would work, but I recommend some combination of the following: raisins, golden raisins, cranberries, dates, cherries, apricots, currants I like to choose three and put in 2/3 of a cup of each.