Prep time: 20 minutes
Refrigerate overnight before serving
Serves 15

1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
¼ cup sugar
1/3 cup butter, melted
3 bananas, sliced
1 package 8-ounce cream cheese, softened
3 ½ cups cold milk
2 packages (4-serving size) Jello vanilla instant pudding & pie filling
1 can (20 ounce) crushed pineapple, lightly drained
1 tub (8ounce) Cool Whip Whipped Topping, thawed

Mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter in a 13x9-inch pan. Press evenly onto bottom of pan. Arrange banana slices on crust.

Beat cream cheese in large bowl with wire whisk until smooth. Gradually beat in milk. Add pudding mixes. Beat until well blended. Spread evenly over banana slices. Spoon pineapple evenly over pudding mixture. Spread whipped topping over pineapple.

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Meet our Staff! Each month we will introduce you to one of our associates. This month our Featured Employee is Mr. Rick Clontz. Rick is responsible for our graphics department. This includes creating artwork and pre-production proofs for commercial printing, rubber stamps and advertising specialty products. Rick is a science-fiction buff and enjoys reading on a variety of topics about earth and space and claims to be on the "A-List" for the first moon colony. Rick enjoys trips to quite desolate beaches and being with his family. His favorite meal is a dish made by his grandmother called tomato steak. Rick says the best part of his job is the variety of his projects and he takes a lot of pride in the quality of his graphics work. Thanks Rick for being a part of our family! You can e-mail Rick at: graphics@ossone.com