salad

Vegan Burrito Bowl with Creamy Chipotle Sauce

This is a great meal to spice up an ordinary salad. The sauce is creamy and the meal makes great leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch! Vegan Burrito Bowl with Creamy Chipotle Sauce   Print Prep time 20 mins Total time 20 mins   Author: GreenLeavesAndJam.com Serves: 4 Ingredients 2 cups brown rice 1 can yellow corn
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Fiesta Summer Salad

The summer hot weather is officially here. We’re all looking for cool offerings for lunch and dinner. This Summer Fiesta Salad is right on target and it comes together very quickly.  Totally healthy, totally vegan. We’ve had very busy days at our house the last couple of months.  Last month our son James graduated from
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Homemade Dijon Citrus Salad Dressing

Salads are crucial if you want to get a lot of great nutrients in your body.  But good, healthy dressings can be a challenge.  I created this Dijon Citrus Salad Dressing accidentally when I had some artichoke dipping sauce from one of Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s books left over.  The dipping sauce was a little too
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What is Kohlrabi?

What is Kohlrabi?  I would have never known if it weren’t for my farmer’s coop distribution where I get my produce each week.  Sixteen years ago I joined my first produce coop in Dallas, Texas.  There was nothing sophisticated about it.  We were just a group of moms, mostly from church, that wanted fresh produce in bulk from the
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How to: Make a Salad for a Toddler

If you are like me, you have often wondered, “What on earth should I feed my child?” My husband and I eat salads at least once a day, and for a while I questioned how to translate that into a meal for my 1 1/2 year old.  I love the idea of giving my child
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Taco Style Salad

Over the weekend we bought a case of re-fried beans from Costco. We have been wanting to buy some for a little while but our budget never had enough room for it.  I was so excited about them that I used them for our dinner salad that night. Before we decided to only eat vegan/plant
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Salad Combo Idea: Almonds, Apples, Beans, and Corn Salad

Like I’ve mentioned before in my  salad on the go post, my HH(Healthy Husband) and I eat a salad a day. This means that I have to get creative. I have tried a TON of combinations and somehow they never go wrong! I usually have one bean of some sort, a nut or seed (sometimes
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On the Go Salad: How to Pack a Salad for Lunch

My HH (Healthy Husband) and I eat at least one salad a day. Often, I end up packing him a salad for lunch. They are such a great, healthy and easy thing to pack, you just have to know how to do it right. I have found that the best way to pack a salad is in a
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