Healthy everyday salad recipe
Raw foods are amazingly healthy for you! Unfortunately a lot of us don’t eat enough raw foods. Raw vegetables and fruits contain a lot of vitamins, minerals, and live enzymes that work inside our bodies to keep us more healthy and full of energy. For me and my family, eating raw foods is a daily part of our lives.
Its very important to me to keep myself and my family healthy so we eat a lot of salads, raw fruits and vegetables, and cutting out almost every type of processed food. Its not a “diet” to us, its how we live, its our lifestyle. Some people want to go on a diet to lose weight. They may eat a lot of salads or other types of food combinations to lose weight and then they go back to their old habbits and gain the weight back. It makes more sense to make a permanent change in your diet and stick to it.
Almost every night we have a salad. We have the same basic ingredients and then add some extras depending on what is in season, or in our garden. I choose organic as much as is possible as well to make sure my family is not putting things into our bodies that are unnecessary and sometimes harmful. In our salads I like a lot of color. The more dark colored the vegetable or fruit the higher in nutrition it is. I never use iceburg lettuce either because it lacks the nutrition that other types of lettuce has. Also I do not buy salad dressings at all. Our salads are topped with extra virgin olive oil, organic balsamic vinegar, and himalayan sea salt.
Basic salad:
- Earthbound organic spring mix (other greens that can be used: spinach, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, romain, butter head lettuce)
- Avocado
- Tomato
- Red Onion
- Seeds: pumpkin seeds, sunflower, sesame, or any nuts added on top for a nice nutritious crunch
- Dressing: Extra virgin cold pressed olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and himalayan sea salt.
Other additives: yellow or green zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, celery, broccoli sprouts (or any other type of sprouts or micro greens grown at home), homemade purple cabbage sauerkraut (I LOVE this on salads), and mushrooms.
If having time to make the basic salads everyday is a challenge, try making several ahead of time by using “Salad in a Jar” method, or premaking salads and storing them in storage containers without the dressing.
I definitely don’t eat enough raw salad and vegetables. This recipe sounds amazing I will definitely be trying it 💗
I hope you will love it as much as we do!
I love that summer is coming back…it means more salad for my family. Sure we could eat it all year round..but to me it’s summer food!
I love salads of all kinds but I like how you stick to raw uncooked vegetables. I also like how you said it is not a diet it is how we live. I need to adopt that perspective..
I think spring mixes are definitely my favorite bases for salads! Also, love that you shared this template! I think people often over-complicate salads or find them intimidating, like they have to be something crazy extravagant and super fancy. But a salad like this is the perfect everyday meal! Love it!
I think eating healthy raw foods and expecially leafy greens such as what the spring mixes are, are really good and healthy. Its important to me to feed my family healthy foods to keep their immune systems strong and keep them in good healthy. Spring mix is a long way off what I grew up eating in salads! Our salad base was iceburg lettuce. Im glad I have learned a lot about nutrition and what are healthier alternatives.
I try to eat a salad every day but I never thought to include pumpkin seeds in mine this looks super tasty and healthy too 🙂 I think i ruin them with the salad dressing.
Raw pumpkin seeds are delicious and really good for you. I hope you give them a try 🙂
salad is becoming a main dish for me – especially for lunches. I have yet to try the salad in a jar technique, but I think I may in the future as it sounds like a time saver.
I love the salad in a jar method and have used it many times. It takes a bit of prep work but saves time in the long run!
I find it hard to eat salads during the winter months, they just feel to cold, but in the spring summer and fall we usually eat them every night. My favortie is a Strawnerry and Fried Goat cheese salad. I could eat that one every night, we dress it with balsamic and honey.
That sounds good 🙂
Love it! We don’t put seeds on our salads but I’m excited to try it! And homegrown sprouts are the best on homemade salads! Thanks for the reminder. I should start growing some now! ❤️
Oh, this looks super yummy. I will definitely have to try this. I love trying new recipes!!