Six Simple Salad Hacks
When I was growing up, "salad" consisted of a wedge of iceberg lettuce with Thousand Island dressing on top. Boy have times changed. Now salad isn't just something you eat when you're dieting or a small side dish; it's an experience!
Here are six super simple hacks to make your salad experience even better.
Purchase prepackaged, prewashed greens
It's okay. No one will judge you if you don't cut and wash your greens.
Use simple dressings
The variety of salad dressings is overwhelming. Make your own dressing such as the Poppy Seed list below or just use lemon juice and oil. Let the flavors of the salad come through.
Chop/shred into small, bite-size pieces.
No one wants to be in a knife fight with their salad.
Use berries, nuts, cheese, eggs, French fries, meat, fish...
You're not boring so why should your salad be?
A salad doesn't need lettuce
The Oxford Dictionary definition of a salad is "a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked ingredients..."
Use a big bowl - hashtag freeyoursalad
Don't cram everything into a cereal bowl or worse, a jar. Let your salad breath. It also gives you a chance to enjoy the beauty of this thing you created.
Six Simple Salad Hacks
Recipe details
- 1-4 servings
- Prep time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 15 Minutes Total time: 30 min
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AND I often eat individual ingredients alone- NEVER forget sitting in the break room when a doc walked by and said ‘ you gonna eat that pepper like an apple ? SO of course next time I walked by him eating an apple while reading a chart, I HAD to say “ you gonna eat that apple like a pepper ? to which he said “ touché “
Allergic to poppy seeds! I like a lite vinaigrette dressing such as champagne or raspberry vinaigrette. Don't forget to throw your proteins on top which could be imitation crab sticks, cooked salmon, grilled chicken, flake tuna or even black eyed peas right out of a can. I also use boiled eggs often and have a little machine that steams 6 at a time which is so easy! I could live on salads!