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Meal Prep: DIY Salad Bar
Diabetes Food Hub can be a great tool for meal prepping! Click here to learn how to use our recipes, meal planner, and grocery list generator to make planning, shopping, and preparing healthy meals a snap! Additionally, we’ll be rolling out a series of meal prepping articles over the next few weeks to show how a little planning can make your meal planning life a lot easier. This week we are going green—LEAFY greens! We’ll help you build your own “salad bar” at home so you can create custom salads all week long. Best of all, the whole family can get involved! Everyone can choose a couple of
Toasted Quinoa and Cabbage Salad
Quinoa and garbanzo beans add a boost of fiber and protein to a traditional coleslaw, making it hearty enough to serve as a vegetarian entree. You can use any color quinoa for this salad, but red quinoa will give it a nice pop of color. Quinoa is not only a whole grain, but it also provides some protein.
How to Build the Perfect Salad
Building blocks of a perfect salad Greens: Every salad starts with a base of leafy greens, but there are lots of options out there! Light green lettuces like romaine or iceberg have the mildest flavor. Darker greens like spinach and kale are more nutrient dense, and have a stronger (sometimes bitter) flavor. “Spring” or “baby” greens are darker greens that are picked when the plant is young, so they have a milder flavor. Try adding shredded cabbage or carrots to your greens for a little crunch, or arugula for a peppery taste. Vegetables: Carrots, celery, cucumber, bell pepper, broccoli
Salad Bar Salsa With Grilled Flank Steak
Author Robyn Webb says, "Salsa isn’t just tomatoes. Scour the salad bar and you’ll find a bevy of ingredients to make homemade salsa special. Paired with a juicy, but lean grilled steak, it’s a perfect summer meal."
Tuna Salad Avocado Bowls
Salmon or albacore tuna in pouches or cans is a super easy way to get one of your fish servings each week. Change up the tuna sandwich rut by whipping up a Mediterranean-style salmon/tuna salad to top an avocado bowl! This low carb, high fiber recipe is perfect for a quick and easy lunch for two.
Chopped Black Bean Chicken Salad
You can either use leftover chicken breasts for this quick and easy recipe or purchase a cooked rotisserie chicken from your local grocery store.
Spinach Pesto Chicken Salad Wrap
Trying to lower your blood pressure by watching sodium intake? Use herbs such as basil and other strong ingredients such as lemon, garlic and pepper for lots of flavor. This wrap is also a great way to work in more vegetables with the spinach.
Roasted Pepper Salad
Author Robyn Webb says, "Bell peppers are so tasty when they are raw, so why ever mess with them by roasting them? It’s because fire does something incredibly magical to a pepper-it transforms its flavor and texture into something juicier, sweeter, and more versatile than before it stepped into the flames. Roasted peppers jazz up pasta, eggs, soups, stews, homemade pizza, and many more everyday foods."
Avocado Tuna Salad
Say hello to this omega-3 fatty acid bomb! Packed with heart-healthy tuna and fiber-rich avocado, this low-carb and diabetes friendly salad is ready to go in just minutes, and at a price that can fit any budget. Chop some avocados, add packaged tuna, and mix in some store-bought pico de gallo. Ready in less than 5 minutes, this is a perfect lunch option or quick-fix dish with southwestern flair. It does pay to go with fresh pico de gallo, which you can purchase in the produce section or at the deli counter in most grocery stores. Or, if you've got a spare tomato, onion, and pepper, chop up