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Salad in a Jar

January 23, 2018 by Melissa Leave a Comment

Who buys lettuce and then it goes bad because you never have TIME to prepare a simple salad during the day? I know I have had that happen many times. I love salads, but finding time to put it together is hard with my busy, always changing schedule with three kids.

Preparing meals ahead of time is something I am trying to do on a more regular basis. I prepared these awesome salads for my weekly lunches this past Sunday afternoon. These are the ingredients I used for this particular salad.

Bragg’s Ginger & Sesame salad dressing, shredded carrots, shelled edamame, cooked quinoa, and baby kale.

It only took me about 15 minutes to put these 4 salads together and that is with cooking the quinoa. To know how much to put of each food group, I used my Portion Fix Containers to measure it all out. I used an orange (not shown) for my salad dressing, a red for my edamame beans, a yellow for the quinoa and a green for my shredded carrots and baby kale leaves. It is important to place the ingredients in the order I mentioned the ingredients so that the salad doesn’t get soggy siting in the dressing.

Now, I have salads ready to eat for 4 days. One of my lunches will be a leftover meal from a dinner. When going to eat these delicious salads, you just need a bowl to dump it into and a fork. Mix it all up in your bowl and enjoy!

There are so many combinations of salads out there. This is my favorite and here is one other mixture I have done in the past that turned out really well.

Vinaigrette dressing (Bragg)
Chickpeas
Shredded carrots
Walnuts
Quinoa
Lettuce

As I try new salad combinations I will post them in here! This is just the beginning!!

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Filed Under: April Seasonal Foods, August Seasonal Foods, December Seasonal Foods, February Seasonal Foods, January Seasonal Foods, July Seasonal Foods, Lunch, March Seasonal Foods, May Seasonal Foods, Meal Prep, Month of May FOCUS, November Seasonal Foods, October Seasonal Foods Tagged With: 7 ingredients or less, carrots, dairy free, edamame, egg free, kale, Portion Fix, quinoa, salad, Sunday Meal Prep

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