I enjoy fruit salad for breakfast a lot of the time now. I loathe melons, so my fruit salads are usually based around kiwi fruit, banana, strawberries etc. and sprinkled with chia seeds
(This one had apple too. I basically mix any combo of 3 - 4 fruits that I have)
By changing it up a lot and buying small amounts of fruit I wouldn't normally buy (such as cherries as they are not in season here and not cheap per kilo!) it breaks up the monotony without breaking the budget.
Then for other meals I had a lot of different salads with raw and cooked vegetables. For example a variety of lettuces with things like grated carrot, corn kernals, slice cabbage, chilli, beans, avocado, bake pumpkin slices etc.
I added a salad dressing I made up consisting of:
1 cup water
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1 Tablespoon maple syrup
2 Tablespoons seeded mustard
Shake to combine and used as desired
I also always added freshly ground pepper and sometimes other spices like cayenne pepper to make it different.
Then sometimes I would just do a plate of cooked vegetables. As boring as it might sound, variety is the key!
Do you have a favourite salad recipe?
It all just looks so much better, fresher and cleaner, than most takeaways doesn't it.
ReplyDeleteI have no recipes as such. I chop up and add whatever is growing here at the time and mix it all together.
My fruitsalad today will have oranges, mandarin, 2 types of apple, banana, Indian Guava if the chooks have left me some, passionfruit. If I have it I add it.
Barb.