Addicted To Salads!

Last week, I couldn't stand to look at a salad. I struggled to eat anything green beyond zucchini. I'm not sure what was wrong with me. But that all changed on Friday after I went to TGIFriday's with my girlfriend E. I had the pecan crusted chicken salad. It was HUGE and I ate all off the salad and half the chicken. I've had about 2-3 salads every day since then. Yum, yum!

I wanted to add some crumbly cheese to my salad, but I don't really like bleu cheese, so I took to Twitter for a little help. You all suggested feta and shaved parmesan. I bought both. I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of the feta, but the parm was pretty good!



Here's my typical salad. Mixed spring salad (from a bag!), two celery sticks diced, one salad cucumber sliced, a handful of cherry tomatoes quartered, some died cranberries, cheese, mandarin oranges, and some type of protein.

I'll either use nuts, my favorite are blue diamond lightly salted and roasted almonds chopped, bacon, or chicken. When I do chicken, take two organic, hormone and antibiotic free chicken tenderloins diced and cook it in some EVOO and low sodium soy sauce. The bacon I use is the Applegate brand, again, because it's organic and hormone/antibiotic free.

The dressing I use is in the refrigerated section near the salads. It's an Asian Ginger flavor, and it's one of the few I have been able to find that are sugar free.