Looking for a new way to enjoy a spring mix salad? This delicious blueberry spring mix salad recipe is loaded with flavor and freshness. Made with a package of store-bough spring mix, this salad can be served as a side dish or as a lunch entrée salad with chicken. Healthy, easy and delicious! Do you have a bag of spring mix in your refrigerator right now? Do you need a new idea of what to do with it? This healthy, easy blueberry salad is a great option! You can make this blueberry salad two ways - as a side salad for a meal, or add chicken to it for a lunch option. Either way, this salad is fresh, colorful and a great way to enjoy that package of spring mix! What do I need to make a spring mix salad recipe? For exact ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions be sure to … [Read more...]
Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad
This bacon ranch pasta salad is perfect for any potluck, cookout, or back yard BBQ! This ranch pasta salad recipe is loaded with bacon, tomatoes, peas and topped with a healthy ranch dressing. Make extra - this pasta salad disappears FAST! Does your idea of a summer side dish consist of a creamy, delicious pasta salad? This Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad recipe is fantastic for all of your summer cookouts, potlucks and neighborhood get togethers! Made with simple ingredients, this delicious ranch pasta salad recipe comes together with minimal prep. It's great to make ahead as a side dish served with grilled chicken, burgers, chops and sausage. What do I need to make ranch pasta salad? Here's a quick-reference grocery list of the ingredients you'll need to make this … [Read more...]
Italian Chicken Salad
Italian Chicken Salad - the Perfect Meal Prep Salad Could you use a new meal prep salad that's healthy AND delicious? This Italian Chicken Salad is the perfect mix of Italian flavors and healthy ingredients to keep you full for hours. If you need lunch salad ideas, you'll love this one! If you're looking for Meal Prep Salad Ideas, you've come to the right place! Even though I work from home, I try to always have some meal prep salad ideas ready to make on the weekend. I tend to make much better lunch choices when I pre-make my lunch. I'm a firm believer that when you make healthy choices *in advance* you are invested in those choices and are much more likely to make that choice when its time to eat. These Italian Chicken Salads are the perfect way to make a healthy choice … [Read more...]
Roasted Carrot Salad with Apples and Pistachios
This Roasted Carrot Salad has wonderful flavors that come together with crisp apples and savory pistachios making the most amazing salad! Easy enough for a weeknight dinner, and beautiful enough to serve for a holiday meal. Roasted Carrot Salad with Apples and Pistachios If you follow me over on Instagram and watch my IG stories, you'll quickly see that I make a stop at my local farmers market just about every Saturday morning. I do this pretty religiously from June through November, and always seem to find some wonderfully fresh and delicious fruits and vegetables. This Roasted Carrot Salad with Apples and Pistachios is a recipe loaded with many of my favorite farmers market finds. Carrots and apples are now in their peak, and are incredible in this delicious Roasted Carrot … [Read more...]
Balsamic Grilled Chicken Salad
Craving a fresh, crisp entree salad? This savory, and slightly sweet Balsamic Grilled Chicken Salad recipe will totally hit the spot! Made with fresh greens, fruit, pistachios and balsamic grilled chicken, this salad is healthy, filling and completely delicious! This Balsamic Grilled Chicken Salad recipe is one of my favorite dinner or lunch ideas for summer. I often crave a big, filling salad for lunch or a light dinner during the summer, and especially when it's hot and humid during our sweltering mid-Atlantic summers. I love including loads of fresh flavor from fresh Virginia peaches and blueberries and plenty of crunch from kale, celery, onion and pistachios. The grilled chicken and goat cheese add amazing flavor and richness that balances out this salad beautifully. … [Read more...]
Apple & Fennel Salad with Blackberries
Fresh, crisp apples and fennel are paired with blackberries, celery and toasted almonds to make this delicious salad. Topped with a creamy blackberry vinaigrette, this delicious side dish comes together in just minutes! Perfect paired with chicken or salmon and also makes a wonderful holiday side! Up until a few weeks ago, I had never tried fennel. It was always something rather mysterious that I saw in the supermarket, but never actually put in my cart and purchased. This all changed when I recently tried a fresh, crispy salad at my local Wegmans supermarket, and it included fennel! I had no idea that you could eat fennel raw, let alone have it bring the amazing flavor that it did to the salad. From here, I decided that I needed to create a salad of my own and include this … [Read more...]
Garden Vegetable Pasta Salad
A healthy pasta salad recipe that actually tastes good! You'll never believe this pasta salad is light and healthy! Made with a delicious Greek yogurt dressing and loaded with fresh garden vegetables, this pasta salad recipe will be your new favorite summer side dish. Perfect for cookouts, pot-lucks and summer barbecues! We love pasta at our house, especially pasta salad in the warm summer months. It makes for a fantastic side-dish to fried chicken or anything that is coming off the grill, like burgers, brats, steaks, chops and chicken. This healthy pasta salad recipe is a nice alternative to other mayo-heavy macaroni and pasta salads. My Garden Vegetable Pasta Salad is made with a much lighter dressing, using plain Greek yogurt and light sour cream. … [Read more...]
Sweet Kale and Grilled Sirloin Salad
The perfect entree salad for the meat lover! Loaded with crunchy, delicious kale, Brussels sprouts, shredded broccoli, cabbage and chicory and topped with grilled sirloin steak, this salad is incredible. Fresh, filling and perfect for lunch or a light dinner! Especially during the holiday season, its easy to go overboard with eating, and then suddenly discover you've gained 5 lbs (or more!), and your jeans no longer fit. I speak from experience here. ;) With this in mind, I'm always looking for healthy, delicious lunch and dinner ideas that keep me on the healthy track. This Sweet Kale and Grilled Sirloin Salad is a fantastic meal idea that is healthy, filling, and full of flavor. This salad starts with an Eat Smart Sweet Kale Vegetable Salad Kit, that is … [Read more...]
