Vibrant colors, fresh flavors, packed with awesome nutrition. This is what I love about all salads, and this Asian Kale Salad is no exception! The heartiness of the kale and the asian flavors also really help to spice up the ol’ salad routine.
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Vegan Taco Salad
Want to spice up your Taco Tuesday (or Wednesday or Thursday)? Try a taco salad! This Vegan Taco Salad has no meat or dairy, but trust me, it doesn’t need it. It is full of all the taco flavors and textures you could ask for and is very filling.
Taco night is a staple in our house at least once a week. My husband doesn’t want salad every night (like I often do) and this recipe is great because I can have a salad while he has tacos, and we don’t have to make two totally different meals. Same ingredients, mine just goes in a bowl with more lettuce! Makes for a great his & hers meal;)
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Vegan Ranch Dressing
Guilt free, dairy free, and the vegan ranch dressing with healthy fats? Great! So versatile too! Fresh veggie dip, salad dressing, artichoke dip, sandwich spread, anything you love ranch on. My favorite use is on my Vegan Taco Salad recipe (coming soon!).
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Collard Wraps
These collard wraps are awesome! So healthy and filling and yummy! They are super quick to make and are portable, one of my favorite hiking lunches (or packed lunch in general) because I can quickly throw them together fast in the morning, provide me with lasting energy, and don’t get soggy like sandwich bread can!
Collards are hearty and easier to wrap because they stay together better than lettuce or other greens wrapping methods. Trust me, I’ve tried many methods. I honestly don’t know how they make the lettuce wraps work so well at restaurants!
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Avocado White Bean Hummus
Need a 5 minute healthy snack that makes fresh veggies tastier and more filling? This Avocado White Bean Hummus is it! It is super quick, goes great with fresh veggies or in sandwiches/wraps, and it is full of protein and healthy fats to make your snack more satisfying and last longer.
This hummus is super quick and can be made with just 5 ingredients that are often on hand. Best of all it will last for a few days in the fridge so make a big batch and keep it on hand for after work/school snacks, or as a great on-the-go snack.
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Chopped Italian Salad
I have always LOVED a good Italian salad. Italian dressing is my favorite kind of dressing (well, lets face it, pretty much everything Italian food is my favorite). There was even a time in my life that instead of snacking on chips as a teenager, I would crave a giant pile of iceberg lettuce with my favorite Italian dressing on top. Italian wedge salad? No? Ok it’s weird, I know. Perhaps I have shared too much….
Anyhoo, this salad is super delish and healthy. It is fantastic as either a main dish for lunch or dinner, or as a side salad to go with your pasta dinner.
Chopping ingredients small for this one allows all the great flavors and textures to blend together and make their way onto every fork full.
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Super Simple Guacamole
2 minute guacamole! 3 ingredients! Super simple guacamole cannot be emphasized enough. Plus it is creamy, delightful, and healthy.
It is best tasting served with Margaritas of course ;). But also makes a great healthy snack.
It’s guacamole, it’s fresh, it’s SO easy. Need I really say more??
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Tuscan Bean Dish
This Tuscan Bean Dish is one of those great happy accident discoveries that came out of trying to cook up something yummy for my Mom from what was available in her fridge and pantry. It has been tweaked and perfected, and it is just delightful. I have served it to her and myself many times since then, it is one of our main go to’s.
I love the Italian inspired flavors in this dish, anything Italian food is my favorite. I mean seriously, who doesn’t love Italian?
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Curry Cauliflower Soup
This vegan Curry Cauliflower soup is so smooth, creamy, and flavorful!
It is also filling, low calorie, and vegan. Win-win-win-win.
Here in the northwest we are having our typical June weather full of days with the dreaded June Gloom. These are days when the clouds just hang there. It doesn’t rain, it’s not sunny, and somehow it is much more depressing and “gloomy” than if it were just out and out pouring buckets. It makes me just want to sleep in and be cuddly. So while it may feel silly to think of soup in summer, here in the pacific northwest there are many days it feels comforting still.
This soup is so creamy, you would never know it’s mostly cauliflower. It has a wonderful flavor kick, and the pumpkin seeds sprinkled on top add a nice crunch and texture complexity.
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Kale and White Bean Salad
This salad. I have had this kale and white bean salad for lunch most days of the last few months (yes, months!), and many times before that as well. There is just something so satisfying about it. It is filling and hearty, but light. It also helps that it is super simple!
This salad is incredibly easy to make, and also unique in that it is easy to keep all the ingredients on hand. Even the fresh kale is a hearty vegetable and will last longer in the fridge than most other salad ingredients. Also it travels well after it has been prepared, making it a great lunch or any on the go meal. It will even keep for a couple days after fully prepared. I love to make this as a potluck type dish to share too, it always goes over well (plus then I always insure I have something healthy to eat there).
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