Brocoli Salad

 Broccoli - The miracle food!

Another family favorite recipe my kids love!

 Ingredients

• 1 - 2 bunches of broccoli, cut into bite size pieces
• 1/4 cup red onion, chopped (optional if your kids don't like onion)
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
• A pinch or drop of stevia (or 1 tablespoon white sugar)
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup sunflower seeds

Instructions

1. In a medium bowl, combine the broccoli, onion and raisins. 
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the vinegar, stevia and mayonnaise. 
3. Pour over broccoli mixture, and toss until well mixed. 
4. Refrigerate for at least two hours.
5. Before serving, toss salad with sunflower seeds.

Enjoy! 

Celery Salad

Celery Salad

• 4 chopped Celery Stalks
• 1 cup torn celery leaves
• 2 Tbls Lemon Juice
• 1 Tbls Olive Oil
• 1 tsp mustard
• 1tsp honey

Optional add ins

• raisins
• nuts
• seeds

In a large bowl whisk together all dressing ingredients, then add celery and leaves.
Enjoy!

Strawberry Spinach Salad with Honey Dijon Salad Dressing

A very yummy lunch I had today!  A folded flat bread sandwich with chicken, cheese, red peppers, mushrooms, green onion, with a little chipotle sauce to spice it up!

Today's salad was what I had on hand...I really need to go shopping!   You could add so much more to this salad!  You could add nuts, sprouts, any veggie you like!  Today I had...

Strawberry Spinach Salad

Fresh organic baby spinach, with strawberries sliced on top,  and some toasted sesame seeds!

Honey Dijon Salad Dressing
Honey
Dijon grainy mustard
white wine vinegar

Measure equal parts honey and mustard and add vinegar till the right consistency!
Very yummy!

Fruit Salad

A simple yummy recipe that kids love!  Fruit salad!  We served ours with a dollop of natural yogurt and some crunchy cereal on top!

Today's salad we had :

Strawberries

Mango

Kiwi

Grapes

Of course I just used what I had on hand.

Enjoy!

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Carrot Salad

This is an old family favorite recipe!  So easy to make and tasty too!  I usually make a big batch for a dinner side dish, and the leftovers are perfect for kids school lunches! 

 Ingredients

• 2 or 3 grated carrots
• chopped pineapple, about a cup
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• lemon juice
• handful of raisins

Directions

Mix all the ingredients together and refrigerate!  Enjoy! 

 

Spinach Chopped Green Salad

 So I have been following Jamie Oliver too!  The first thing I did was go to the library and request all his cookbooks.  This is a chop salad I made out of one of them...can't remember which one...This recipe is a little bit modified to go with  what I had on hand! 

Ingredients

Salad
Cucumber
Avocado
Cilantro (fresh just leaves no stems)
Green onion
Alfalfa sprouts
Baby spinach

Dressing
Olive oil
Red wine vinegar
Dijon mustard
Fresh ground pepper

Chop all salad ingredients, add half to bowl, make a well in the middle of salad bowl and add olive oil, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, and a little fresh ground pepper.  Toss salad, and add rest of ingredients.  Enjoy!


Cilantro is a good source of folic acid, and also helps detox heavy metals out of your system including mercury, lead and cadmium.
Spinach also a good source of folic acid, calcium, and whole list of nutrients!

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Waldorf Salad

Finally today Andrew was able to make his special Waldorf Salad!  He chopped all the vegetables and I had the fun job of shelling the walnuts.  Next time I think I'll borrow Jay's safety goggles from the garage.  Shelling walnuts is dangerous!  You never know which way the nut will crack.  I have shell in my hair, I hit myself in the mouth with a piece, and had my eyes closed most of the time.  I think this would be a better outdoor job as it does leave a bit of a mess.  Now Kaitie is the expert nut opener but she is off spending time with her friends today.

Waldorf Salad

1/2 cup toasted walnuts
1/2 cup celery, sliced
1/2 cup seedless grapes
1 apple chopped
3 tbls mayonnaise
1 tbls lemon juice
lettuce

Wash and chop ingredients, and mix all together!  Enjoy!

In this salad we used green grapes, and a green apple...next time we will have to use red fruit...so it doesn't look so boring  :)