🥗 Italian Chopped Salad

Hi there and thanks for stopping by! Hope your week is off to an amazing start! 

I'm always looking for ways to jazz up boring salads, and this one has become one of our favorite lunchtime additions. This is more of a suggestion than an exact recipe, feel free to add or subtract ingredients to match your preferences. 

We do the majority of our grocery shopping at Aldi, and they have such wonderful additions for salads. We love their Italian salami, their jarred artichokes, and they have a fabulous selection of cheeses. Don't forget to peruse their produce section. You can't beat the quality and prices! 

Also, I paired this salad with my copycat Good Seasons Italian dressing, found here. Give it a try, it saves quite a bit of money by making it yourself, and it's such a tasty vinaigrette!

Italian Chopped Salad~

Ingredients~

Chopped Romaine lettuce as a base

Cucumbers

Carrots

Pepperoncini peppers, drained and chopped

Shredded Mozzarella cheese

Salami and Pepperoni, sliced in strips

Red onion, sliced very thinly

Method~

Throw it all in a bowl and enjoy! 

It's a delicious and colorful salad, full of bright and bold flavors. And we love how everything is perfectly bite-sized!

Also, we recently added a salad spinner to our kitchen gadgets collection and I don't want to know life without one now! Making salads is easier than ever and the lettuce comes out perfectly dry without wasting tons of paper towel. It is a serious time saver. Pick one up if you don't have one, I promise you wont regret it! (We got ours on Amazon, here.)

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day. :)

🥗 My Go-To Lunches

Eating well at lunch can be tricky. It’s right in the middle of the day and can easily be forgotten. Or, in a rush, you can make poor choices. I love reading about what other people eat, I love finding new ideas! I thought I’d share a few of my favorite lunches when I’m either at home or on the go:

At Home-

Salad kits-

Such a quick and easy lunch, with everything you need right inside the bag! I love Dole Sunflower Crunch and Aldi Caesar kits the best.

“Ploughman’s Lunch”-

A traditional British cold meal, it’s comprised of a smorgasbord if bread, cheese, sliced apple or pear, hard boiled eggs, raw veggies, basically whatever you have laying around. I love slicing up an apple and some cheese and snacking on it with a few crackers or a hunk of good bread.

Organic chicken potstickers-

A new find at Costco, these are so tasty! The trick is to pan fry them in a splash of water to get a nice golden color on them. They cook in no time at all and are always ready for me in the freezer.

On-the-Go-

Chipotle vegetarian soft tacos-

My go-to order is a little rice, black beans, corn salsa, a pinch of cheese, and extra lettuce. Filling, fresh, and fast.

Sushi-

My local sushi restaurant has a wonderful $9 lunch special with 2 sushi rolls, a soup, and a salad. Although I’m not very adventurous when it comes to sushi I really really love California rolls!

Jersey Mike’s “sub in a tub”-

My newest obsession. As the name suggests, It’s a sub served in a container without the bread. My favorite is the turkey and provolone, with honey mustard on the side. The trick is to get out of there without buying chips or a brownie! ;-)

Okay, now I’m hungry! Hehe. What are some of your favorite lunches? Let me know down below, I love hearing from you.

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day. :)

PS-Today is Veterans' Day in the US. I want to express how grateful I am today and every day to our military personal past and present, and the families who support them. Thank you!