![]() We grab our big plastic mixing bowl, wash the veggies, start chopping everything (doesn’t have to be perfect), add spices and oil, mix it around, serve. We could spend a whole paragraph trying to tell you how fast it can be to create a big salad, but by the time you are done reading, we could have already made one. Everyone prefers different tastes so check it out and let us know if you make a big salad! It’s Super Fast and Easy to Make We’ve written our exact recipe down below to give you some inspiration for your own salad. It’s all a balancing act – that’s why we ensure that the base of our salad is ALWAYS a heap of colorful vegetables. If you make a salad but cover it in unhealthy add-ons, you start to reduce the nutritional value for your body. Like we also said above, you do have to consider what you are adding and how much. Sometimes we do a little bit of bacon and avocado, sometimes it’s just green vegetables, olive oil, and a few spices (garlic powder). We also never make the same salad exactly the same way twice! Going back to what we discussed above, our salads are tasty because we customize them to how we like them. Looking for More Recipes? – Here are Great Recipes You Can Make in the Fall It’s Customizable for Our Tastes What we add might be different from what flavors you like so you’ll have to experiment with which salad recipe works best for you. However, we still make sure that we don’t sacrifice nutritional value for taste. ![]() The things that we add to them are things that we like. So, that said, our salads are super tasty because we make them tasty for us. This is actually one of the reasons people do not eat healthier: our learned behaviors and choices. This means that we have decisions to make over which food we consume – and usually, we choose poorly. But you aren’t a caveman/cavewoman, and you can get the nutrients you need when you need them. Humans are programmed (by evolution) to seek these properties in foods for survival. Most of the food consumed these days is full of sugar, salt, or fats – so OF COURSE it’s “tastier”. We’ve been told that healthy foods like vegetable aren’t tasty compared to the usual foods that get consumed. We think this is not only untrue but also misleading. There’s a myth going around that salads have to be boring and not flavorful. We also wanted to share our recipe with you so you can give it a go or customize it to be your own salad! It’s Actually Delicious So, we wanted to share the benefits we can think of having made lots of big salads over the past few weeks. We simply started for convenience and deliciousness, and we’ve had some interesting results and realizations. Turns out, eating a salad for lunch everyday has a ton of benefits. Striving to find a food that met all these things led us down a path of salad making and deliciousness that we never imagined. We are also very busy during the day so we wanted a stress-free lunch option that we didn’t have to think about. We aren’t vegan or vegetarian – but we do try to limit our meat consumption as well as our consumption of processed/sugary foods. We are pretty conscious of what we put in our bodies. To be honest, we didn’t set out to start eating salad everyday for basically a month – it just kinda happened. Let’s get this out of the way right off the start: we eat a big salad for lunch basically everyday, and we’ve been doing it for approximately a month now. I've been making mason jar salads every week since for over 10 years, and they continue to be an easy, delicious way to move towards healthier eating habits.We Love Eating Salad Everyday – and We Think You Can, Too! And now I consume more vegetables in one day than I used to in a week! ![]() Today I love eating salads – well, mason jar salads.Įvery day, I count down the minutes to lunch and look forward to eating a mason jar salad. Sure, I'd order one at a restaurant or possibly make a sad iceberg concoction at dinner, but to make one every day was never in the cards. Up until then, I was never a big salad fan. I became an instant mason jar salad believer. That week changed my life! Not to sound dramatic, but it did. I put together five mason jar salads to bring to work. Sure they look pretty layered in a glass mason jar, but are they functional? Are they going to be a pain to transport to work? How will I eat it? That all changed when I discovered mason jar salads in 2012.Īt first, I thought mason jar salads were all for show.
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