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Rosie Red Greyhound Cocktail and a Wonderful Sweet Scarletts Texas Red Grapefruit giveaway! Recipe
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Wonderful Sweet ScarlettsTM Texas Red Grapefruits are a new brand of Texas Red Grapefruits that launched nationwide this year and will change the way you think about grapefruit! They’re from the Wonderful people. You know the folks who bring you POM Wonderful, Wonderful Halos, and Wonderful Pistachios.
Wonderful Sweet ScarlettsTM Texas Red Grapefruits are so sweet, you won't even need to add sugar! (Though you really should be adding stevia or monk fruit to any kind of grapefruit and not sugar!) You see, the Texas climate of warm, sunny days with cool nights yields the sweetest premium red grapefruits around.
Best of all, half a Wonderful Sweet ScarlettsTM Texas Red Grapefruit is only 60 calories and provides 100% of the…
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