-Salad Made Simple-
Fitting in your daily salad can be a hassle.....unless you prepare using these easy steps to enjoy your favorite combinations of healthy greens. Instead of turning to some supplement that your body cannot benefit from for your daily vitamins and minerals(which contain no anti-oxident value), make a great salad with a variety of your favorite Fibrous veggies to choose from and recieve the cancer fighting, skin rejuvenating, immune system enhancing and slowing of age progression, anti-oxidents. I usually purchase most of my greens from meijers, but any fresh produce store will work great. I have an easy and quick salad prep system that works. By using the layering method, you can make create any combination of veggies that you like. Below I have prepared a simple salad with: Romain lettuce, white cauliflower, Broccoli, celery, cucumber, and baby carrots. Try this combination or create one of your own.
Prep time: 15 minutes
Tools needed: Large cutting board, Kitchen knife, large plastic container for salad storage
Prep time: 15 minutes
Tools needed: Large cutting board, Kitchen knife, large plastic container for salad storage
Your Salad Ingredients
Here is where you can get creative in your layering. I have used many things in my salads of the past, but keep it simple and go for what your taste buds tell you. I like to use veggies with a high anti-oxident value. These are easy veggies to find because they are the ones with the most vibrant colors, but you can never go wrong with GREEN!
Lettuce: Romain lettuce, Green Leaf lettuce, Ice-berg lettuce, spring mix
Peppers: Green, Purple, Orange, Red, Yellow
Cauliflower: Green(Broccoflower), Purple, Orange, White
Celery Stalk
Carrot(s)
Broccoli
Cucumbers
Other produce that you might consider adding in:
Spinach Leafs
cherry tomatoes
Hot peppers(jalepenos)
Dried Tomatoes
mushrooms
Fruit of choice
dried cherries
Raisins
cranberries
Lettuce: Romain lettuce, Green Leaf lettuce, Ice-berg lettuce, spring mix
Peppers: Green, Purple, Orange, Red, Yellow
Cauliflower: Green(Broccoflower), Purple, Orange, White
Celery Stalk
Carrot(s)
Broccoli
Cucumbers
Other produce that you might consider adding in:
Spinach Leafs
cherry tomatoes
Hot peppers(jalepenos)
Dried Tomatoes
mushrooms
Fruit of choice
dried cherries
Raisins
cranberries
"The Base" Lettuce
I have chosen Three heads of Romain Lettuce
Prep: Cut off white hard ends of each head, and chop up remainin lettuce
Prep: Cut off white hard ends of each head, and chop up remainin lettuce
Layer #2
My next layer is White Cauliflower
Prep: Cut into 4 sections and cut out majority of white root, then chop up remaining florets
Prep: Cut into 4 sections and cut out majority of white root, then chop up remaining florets
Layer #3
Layer 3 is a bundle of broccoli
Prep: Cut head of broccoli from stalk and chop up into bit size floret peices
Prep: Cut head of broccoli from stalk and chop up into bit size floret peices
Layer #4
Layer 4 consists of 2 cucumbers
Prep: Cut off ends of Cucs and cut down the center two times, to create four halfs, then dice into bite size peices
Prep: Cut off ends of Cucs and cut down the center two times, to create four halfs, then dice into bite size peices
Layer #5
Layer 5 is a bundle of Celery
Prep: Chop off an inch and half from butt of bundle. Line up about half of bundle or smaller and dice into small peices
Prep: Chop off an inch and half from butt of bundle. Line up about half of bundle or smaller and dice into small peices
Layer #6
Layer 6 is a half of a bag of Baby Carrots
Prep: Pile up carrots and chop away! chop into small peices
Prep: Pile up carrots and chop away! chop into small peices
15 Minutes covers your whole week
Make your simple salad YOUR WAY. Just prep your salad in as little as 15 minutes and you can pull out your container at any personal meal, family meal, picnic, work pot luck, or anywhere els you can think of to bring your simple salad to offer. You can use as little as three layers, or make it flavorful with as many as you can fit into your container. You can use your salad as a great meal base to add in your protein, carb, and fat to make a very tasty quick meal. To create my meals I add in:
Can of Tuna, serving of Granola, serving of Almonds
Peice of chicken, Dried Cherries or Cranberries, serving of Walnuts
Serving of Shrimp, 1 medium size Apple, serving of Flax Meal
Salad Wrap-Scrambled eggs, whole wheat tortilla wrap, serving of turkey bacon
Get Creative...go where your taste buds tell you!
SPICE IT UP!
Spices that I add to flavorize my salad creations!
Red crushed pepper
Salt free galic pepper
any Mrs. Dash spice (they are all very tasty and salt free)
Black pepper
Cumin
anything els that satifies your taste buds!
Great dressing options
Salsa
Olive oil and healthy vinaigrette
or other All natural or Organic dressings
! No fat-free or Carb free dressings (very harmful synthetic fillers) !
Can of Tuna, serving of Granola, serving of Almonds
Peice of chicken, Dried Cherries or Cranberries, serving of Walnuts
Serving of Shrimp, 1 medium size Apple, serving of Flax Meal
Salad Wrap-Scrambled eggs, whole wheat tortilla wrap, serving of turkey bacon
Get Creative...go where your taste buds tell you!
SPICE IT UP!
Spices that I add to flavorize my salad creations!
Red crushed pepper
Salt free galic pepper
any Mrs. Dash spice (they are all very tasty and salt free)
Black pepper
Cumin
anything els that satifies your taste buds!
Great dressing options
Salsa
Olive oil and healthy vinaigrette
or other All natural or Organic dressings
! No fat-free or Carb free dressings (very harmful synthetic fillers) !