Celebrate a California-Style Cinco de Mayo with Fresh California Avocados
Plan A California Fiesta
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo all weekend long—all day and into the night. Create a party with your own personal twist. Make it California-style. Your style—with fresh, California Avocados.
Kick off your day with an intimate Cinco de Mayo brunch. Make it special with these tips.
On the Menu
Create a menu that balances sweet and salty. Breakfast meats, eggs, waffles and more, all complemented with California Avocados. With that kind of variety, you can be assured the dishes will appeal to all your guests. You'll find lots of ideas among our California Avocado Breakfast Recipes.
Set the Mood
- Serve the meal on colorful plates.
- Decorate your table with fresh, vibrant daisies, small cactus plants, or bowls of California Avocados.
- If your guest list keeps growing as you start planning, consider serving buffet-style.
Many people are trying to increase the amounts of fruits and veggies they eat these days. The good news is avocados contribute nearly 20 vitamins, minerals and beneficial plant compounds that can enhance the nutrient quality of your diet. And California Avocados, due to their mono and polyunsaturated fat content, are a great substitution for foods rich in saturated fat!
On the Menu
- Serve a variety of guacamole dips with baked organic chips or veggies.
- California Avocados are naturally sodium- and cholesterol-free and can be part of a healthful diet. Search our recipes for a variety of options to suit your dietary needs, or see the chart below for some quick and easy substitution ideas.
Set the Mood
- If you're having a large crowd, set up a buffet station where family and friends can build their own tacos and salads, for example.
- String chile pepper lights and decorate in bold colors.
- Crank up the music and dance! Not only is it fun, but it also burns calories.
- Play California Avocado Jigsaw. Draw an avocado shape on several sheets of red, green and white paper. Cut out the shapes, and then individually, cut each "avocado" in half using jagged and curvy cuts, kind of like a jigsaw puzzle piece. When guests arrive, have them pick an "avocado" half from a box. Their goal is to find the person who has the other half. When someone finds their other half, everyone yells, "Olé!"
- If the weather is nice, and you have access to outdoor space, take the festivities outside.
Good food. Good friends. Good music. And Fresh California Avocados. Throw a Cinco de Mayo house party that will become the talk of the town.
On the Menu
- Dips. Dips. Guacamole and more dips. Place several flavorful California Avocado dips in different areas of the house to keep your guests moving and mingling.
- For a large party, finger foods work great, or serve dishes buffet-style.
Set the Mood
- Visit a party store and put up fun, bright, vibrant-colored decorations such as cactus, or flowers in terra cotta pots.
- Scatter fun items on the tables such as maracas, mini-sombreros and a colorful bowl filled with California Avocados.
- Use solid-colored or bold, graphic floral-designed plates and bright-colored drinking glasses.
- Challenge your guests to a fun game. Fill a jar with dry black beans and ask them to guess how many beans are in the jar. The guest who comes closest, gets to keep the beans plus a recipe for Crispy Black Bean Corn Cakes with California Avocado Salsa.
