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Make a Super Sunday Party Sensational

Party Fare with Pizzazz Your Goal? Kick it up with Cranberries!

LAKEVILLE-MIDDLEBORO, MA (January 26, 2006) – Punt the pizza and sideline the sandwiches. For a menu sure to score, Super Sunday party hosts can turn to Ocean Spray for a variety of ways to fuel their fans on February 5. Ocean Spray has created a festive menu of delicious and easy-to-make recipes that put a new spin on some classic party favorites and are sure to score points with fans for either team.

Cranberries team well with just about anything from sweet to savory, and their versatile flavor adds a new dimension to almost every dish or drink you prepare. And since traditional game day snacks are usually high in fat and calories, youll pull a quarterback sneak on your guests by adding the health benefits of this little wonderberry to your game day menu.

Pass bowls of Craisins® Trail Mix, available in either Cranberry & Chocolate or Cranberry, Fruit and Nuts flavors, to get the party started. Keep the crowd energized with Tex-Mex Salsa, Spicy Cranberry Chicken Drummettes and sweet treats like Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Serve a bubbly, refreshing mocktail like the Ruby Citrus Sparkler, or make a real save and protect your carpet from stains by serving refreshing White Cosmopolitans.

Ocean Spray Super Sunday Menu Suggestions
Straight from the bog, Ocean Spray’s vibrant cranberries blend big, bold tastes with healthy benefits for a winning combination. 

Kick-Off Appetizers
Tex Mex Cranberry Salsa served with tortilla chips
Craisins® Trail Mix

Second-Half Main Courses
Spicy Cranberry Chicken Drummettes
Out-of-this-World Fiery Fruited Chili

Two-Minute Drill Desserts
Caramel Corn & Craisins® Snack Mix
Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Fan Favorites – Cocktails & Mocktails
White Cosmopolitan
Ruby Citrus Sparkler (non-alcoholic)

Easy to prepare, the drinks and dishes on this menu will score big points with your partygoers. Prepare them ahead of time so you can entertain without missing any of the action. To find these game-winning recipes and more, visit www.oceanspray.com.

Tex Mex Cranberry Salsa

Ingredients
1 16-ounce can Ocean Spray® Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce
1/4 cup canned jalapeños, chopped
1 green onion, sliced
1 teaspoon dried cilantro
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon lime juice

Directions
Combine all ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. Serve with nacho chips or as a condiment for poultry or pork. Store refrigerated for up to 1 week.  Makes about 2 cups.

White Cosmopolitan

Ingredients
5 ounces Ocean Spray® White Cranberry Juice Cocktail
2 ounces citrus-flavored vodka
1/2 ounce sweetened lime juice
Lime twist, garnish

Directions
Combine all ingredients, except garnish, in a cocktail shaker. Pour into a martini glass. Garnish with lime twist or a skewer of fresh cranberries, if desired. Makes 1 serving.

Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 650 cranberry growers in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and other parts of Canada as well as more than 100 Florida grapefruit growers. Ocean Spray was formed 75 years ago by three cranberry growers from Massachusetts and New Jersey. Florida grapefruit growers joined the Cooperative in 1976. Ocean Spray is North America’s leading producer of canned and bottled juices and juice drinks, and has been the best-selling brand name in the canned and bottled juice category since 1981. Ocean Spray posted fiscal 2005 gross sales of about $1.4 billion.