Salad 101 Vegan Style
Salad 101
Creating a vegan style salad is super easy! Here are my go-to ingredients to a new and exciting salad each night. (Please feel free to add your rave fave salads in the comments! If you are a food blogger please, please, please add a link so we can all have some groovy green love.)
Greens: (in order of my own personal preference)
- spinach
- baby kale
- lacinato kale or dinosaur kale (for my video on kale click here.)
- romaine
- swiss chard
- beet greens (did you know you can grow your own? micro, micro farm! –> click here.)
- Zen Blend
Veggies:
- cucumbers
- tomatoes
- carrots slice 500 different ways
- peppers–red, yellow, green, hot peppers!, roasted peppers (the ones out of a jar)
- my kids like corn on their Taco Salads
Fruit:
- strawberries
- olives
- kiwi
- apple
- pineapple
Nuts and Seeds:
- WALNUTS (my biggest most favorite!)
- almonds
- peanuts (especially on my Asian salads)
- black beans (on my Taco Salad)
- garbanzo beans
- pumpkin seeds (roasted–I eat them raw on my oatmeal but not salad. I know–weird.)
Why?
Because I’m all about just eating a ding dang salad–it’s just not that hard. It’s good for you. Your heart will thank you and so will your kids . . . or your Mom! or whoever loves you more than anything in the whole world.
[Tweet “Beautiful food, intentional cooking, opening to the blessings of a sacred meal. #salad”]
Don’t recreate the wheel (or salad)
This was the salad kit I used as a base, then added strawberries. No, it isn’t organic. No, it’s not local. I went for easy, fast, a different flavor blend to try out on my kids.
Salad kits are a great way to:
- introduce new combinations
- try a new green blend
- try a new salad dressing without make the commitment to a jar–I have a graveyard of salad dressings in my fridge! Bums me out.
- perfect size for lunch–put the lettuce in your own container and then add the dressing and toppings at lunch! Brilliant idea.
Go get your salad on!
Be blessed as you honor your body with healthy greens!
PS. if you need a salad dressing –> click here for my amaze walnut fig dressing, or here for my lemon dressing!
Superfoods Vegan Breakfast 001
Breakfast and Instagram
I love being blessed by a new day! Waking up filled with joy of the endless possibilities. (yeah, seriously I wonder about myself sometimes!) But that really is how I feel. Each morning I have a conversation with myself that goes like this:
- how can I honor and love myself (to be honest this is a new one for me, in 2015 I’m putting myself first.)
- how can I serve my family to help them be the person God wants them to be
- please let me be love and light
- when I fail (often before breakfast) what is the quickest way to get back on track.
Filling up on Compassion
For me, eating a vegan breakfast begins my day without bringing harm to any animals. I like to start everyday with that practice or intention of loving kindness. This breakfast is a yummy, yummy way to be compassionate. I wish all compassion was flavored with chocolate–wouldn’t the world just be happier?
[Tweet “I want to start my day with chocolate-y loving kindness!”]
Be Blessed as you Eat and Live with L.O.V.E.
oxoxRenee
P.S. This necklace is the one I wear everyday. “I am love” is a wonderful reminder of how I want to greet each moment. I’ve created several different variations for women who feel the same way but have different words to express the same sentiment.
Sandhill Farms CSA Share (11/11/14)
My Silly CSA Share Video
In this very silly video I share the contents of my Sandhill Farms CSA share.
The videographer was a bit silly and laughing while filming so it moves around a bit. I’m sort of unapologetic about the videos–they are what they are and I’m just a crazy vegan lady eating a bunch of veggies! I am happy!
[Tweet “I just watched a video that made me laugh out loud.”]
Or
[Tweet “I just watched the most annoying video ever!”]
Be Blessed!
Eat with L.O.V.E.