Mexican Inspired Salad

The perfect salad doesn’t exi-

This salad is perfect. And so colorful and delicious 🌈


Ingredients:

Base is chopped spinach, butter lettuce, and purple cabbage
Grilled chicken
Chopped mushrooms
Sliced grape tomatoes
Cotija cheese
Diced cilantro
(Not pictured) dressing was lite caesar and a little bit of salsa

Spicy Chicken Salad


chicken salad 🐓 sometimes, the most simple ideas are the BEST meals


Ingredients:

1 cup shredded chicken breast
3 tbsp lite Mayo
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
Topping: sriracha and green onion
On top of: sourdough toast

Cranberry Lime Salad Dressing


Frozen cranberries have entered the chat 💬 My new favorite salad dressing flavor…cranberry lime. AND PLEASE look at the beautiful color 💕


Ingredients (salad):

Base of 2 cups of spinach
Candied walnuts
Sliced strawberries
Feta cheese
Homemade cranberry walnut dressing (using the best frozen cranberries from Cape Cod Select)

Ingredients (cranberry lime salad dressing):

1/4 cup frozen cranberries Cape Cod Select
3 tbsp olive oil (add more/less depending on the desired viscosity)
2 tbsp lime juice
1 tbsp honey
Salt and pepper to taste

Add all the ingredients to the blender and blend! Add more or less of any ingredient listed, you really can’t do this wrong! 😊

Shrimp Caesar Salad

This might be controversial, but am I the only one who adds LOTS of water to creamy salad dressing??😅 It has nothing to do with diet culture (lowering calorie count) and ALL to do with how it coats the lettuce so much better, idk maybe just me 🤷🏼‍♀️


Ingredients:

Butter lettuce
Grilled lemon garlic shrimp
Parmesan cheese
Kalamata olives
Watered down creamy Caesar dressing (I swear it’s so good 😂)

Pasta Salad


Sometimes the best lunches are super simple. This pasta salad..was the PERFECT lunch, dinner and snack this week 🥗


Ingredients:

Shell pasta noodles
Halved cherry tomatos
Chopped spinach
Yellow peppers
Cheddar cheese
Lite Italian dressing
Salt and pepper to taste

Vegan Lunch Bowl


I’ll probably never be fully vegan again, but this is my soft launch into being vegan sometimes…because vegan meals can absolutely slap 👋🏼 🌱


Ingredients:

Brown rice
Black beans
Sautéd yellow onion
Sautéd spinach
Sliced avocado
Diced cherry tomatoes

Spinach Salad

Nothing beats a simple spinach salad on a busy busy BUSY day! 🕰 Especially a “clean out the fridge” spinach salad! 🥗


Ingredients:

2 cups spinach
Cherry tomatoes
Air fried chicken tenders
Green onion
Lite Cesar dressing

Strawberry Walnut Summer Salad

This is my official goodbye to summer. ☀️ It is officially (in my opinion) pumpkin/spooky season 🎃 To celebrate the end of summer, I made my FAVORITE summer salad 🥗


Ingredients:

Spinach
Sliced strawberries
Candied walnuts (sautéd in a pan with 1 tbsp maple syrup and cinnamon)
Crumbled feta cheese
Homemade raspberry dressing (1 tbsp raspberry preserves, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp lemon juice)

Vegan Mediterranean Bowl

Can we have a moment for my moms vegan cooking? 😍 My mom recently decided to start eating more plant based and she is doing SO GOOD! 👏🏼 These vegan Mediterranean bowls are so easy and seriously…the perfect meal ♥️


Ingredients:

1/2 cup brown rice
Baked veggies (broccoli, sweet potato, & zucchini)
Diced tomato
Diced avocado
Kalamata olives
Topped with a drizzle of homemade garlic hummus)

Choosing Balance Pasta Salad


Pasta salad anyone? 🥗 THANK YOU again to @choosing_balance for the incredible recipe inspiration 😍


Ingredients:

1 12 oz box pasta
1 avocado diced
1 cup fresh mozzarella balls
1/3 cup sliced cherry tomatoes
1/3 cup sliced cucumber
1/4 cup red onion
1/4 cup lite Italian dressing
Salt and pepper to taste

Taco Salad Meal Prep

PERFECT MEAL PREP ALERT 🚨 We all know, tacos are the best food on the planet. But they don’t make the best leftovers 🌮 I created a little taco salad with leftovers from our taco Tuesday and it did not disappoint! ❤️


Ingredients:

Spinach (as salad base)
Brown rice with cilantro and Only Salt.Co from my Clean Fit Box
Corn
Mashed avocado with lemon juice and salt
Black beans
Shredded chicken breast
Salsa

Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is ALWAYS the answer 🍓 I am obsessed with fresh fruit bowls. The secret ingredient? 🤫 A little bit of honey 🍯 and a little bit of lemon juice 🍋 mixed together and drizzled over the top of your fruit bowl 🍇


Ingredients:

Sliced strawberries
Sliced banana
Raspberries
Green grapes