How to Prep Salads for the Whole Week
Would you like to eat more salads? Wondering how to prep salads for the whole week? I’ve got a special chart you can print below with some recipe ideas.
Salads are an excellent way to add more vegetables and fruits to your diet, and they can be incredibly versatile and flavorful.
Whether you’re looking for a light and refreshing side dish or a satisfying and filling meal, we believe there’s a salad out there just for you, even if you consider yourself not really a ‘salad person’!
👩🍳 Pro tip: Try getting creative in the kitchen when it comes to building a salad and step out of the box a little bit.
Like this Smashed Chickpea Salad 🤩. It’s a salad full of fresh vegetables and herbs and you can either add it to a bed of greens or into a wrap!
Here’s all that you need for this Smashed Chickpea Salad:
✅ 1, 15 ounce Chickpeas, canned, Drained and Rinsed
✅ 1/2 Lemon, Juiced and Zested (for 1 tsp zest)
✅ 1 Tbs Olive Oil
✅ 2 Tbs Olives, Kalamata, Pitted and Chopped
✅ 1/2 cups celery, chopped
✅ 1/4 Onion, red, Chopped
✅ 1 Tbs Parsley, fresh, Chopped
✅ Salt & Pepper, to taste
✅ 3 Tbs sunflower seeds, raw
Follow these simple steps 👇
🔪 Chop olives, celery, onion, and parsley. Zest and juice lemon.
🚰 Drain and rinse chickpeas.
🥣 Add chickpea, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of zest, and olive oil to a bowl. Using a potato masher or fork, mash chickpeas to a coarse paste.
😋 Mix in the chopped ingredients, sunflower seeds, and season to taste.
The key to a good salad is to use fresh, high-quality ingredients and to experiment with different flavors and textures like we did here.
Don’t be afraid to mix and match ingredients to create your own unique version.
Happy National Salad Month!🥗
Do you wish you had more options for salad, rather than the same few ingredients that get boring after a while? Use this chart to pick ingredients for a week’s worth of salads – use the layering ideas, or mix and match your favorites.
Each salad is a fresh new option for you! You can use this chart to create one salad for the whole week, or five++ different salads, but really the possibilities are endless.
Add each of the layers, or just some of them, it’s up to you!
How to prep salads for the whole week:
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