All the Salad Posts

A few months into my weight loss journey, the Lord finally said something about what to eat! He told me to have (at least) one salad every day.

Salad Update August 2013
Hope November 2012
Today's Salad-Extra Dressing May 2012
Today's Salad-Bacon May 2012
Hike-Squires Lake May 2012
Need to Eat Extra Calories Tonight May 2012
Today's Salad-Day 3 Diamond Cutter May 2012
Today's Salad May 2012
Weekend Hike-Camano Island State Park May 2012
Today's Salad-Hungry May 2012
Today's Salad-All Green May 2012
Eat One Salad Per Day May 2012

Today's salad status...here's the recipe that I pretty much eat every day now and I still LOVE it!

I keep my salad stuff in a box in the frig. Making a fresh salad with this many ingredients every single day demands some organization! I have a lightweight plastic bowl I use to mix up my salad. I hand wash my bowl every single day before eating my salad so it is clean and ready for the next day. I put that on the scale.
60g butter lettuce (packaged)
20g baby fresh spinach (packaged)
60g chicken breast (cooked and frozen in pre-measured zip bags)

3 or 4 snap peas pods (put on plate for slicing)
1 hard boiled farm fresh free range egg (put on plate for slicing)
1 large stalk organic celery (put on plate for slicing, pre-cut and stored in glass dish with water)
40g organic cucumber which is about 1" thick slice (put on plate for slicing)
Trim ends off celery, cut and dice everything on plate, dump into salad bowl. Then I'll use the plate to serve myself the salad after it's all mixed together.

Almost done!

12g pre-chopped red onion (I should probably upgrade this to organic)
35g pre-chopped red pepper (organic red peppers are usually $5 where I live, they are delicious, but over the top pricewise for me!)
7g sunflower seeds
5g pre-chopped Craisins (regular or low-sugar)
45g Newman's Own Lite Balsamic (the world's BEST low everything but high taste salad dressing!)

Then I mix it all up and dump all that goodness onto the plate and EAT! I'm best if I eat it before 2:30pm so I don't get too hungry or too close to dinner.

347 calories
 17 fat
 25 carbs
 30 protein
 13 sugars
 7 fiber

Simply delicious to eat every day and so satisfying I don't get hungry for hours!