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This delicious salad is keeping me sane while I lose

DavidCHobby
DavidCHobby Posts: 53
edited February 8 in Recipes
For those of you who (as I am) are not very veggie-oriented, here is a salad that delivers great taste for not many calories:

• 1 cup baby arugula (more tender, no chopping)
• 1/2 medium honeycrisp apple (seasonal, but the best apple IN THE WORLD) diced
• 1/2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• sea salt
• fresh-ground black pepper

The last two (as with the oil/vinegar) are to taste. The arugula has a rich, peppery (almost meaty?) taste that is offset by the explosive sweetness of the honeycrisp (important) apple. All told, 107 calories. I eat it with a roasted chicken thigh as a lunch and it is awesome. And I am not a salad guy.

If you want to make the salad more of a meal, you can add a tbsp of soft goat cheese (chevre) distributed through the salad for 80 more calories and a good does of salty/creamy that would satisfy most fat cravings. But honestly, it is pretty damn good w/o the cheese, too.

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  • strong_enough
    strong_enough Posts: 164 Member
    This sounds good! I love a salad of baby spinach, walnuts, strawberries, avocado and goat cheese, with a basalmic vinegar dressing. Very yummy
  • FitMomOK
    FitMomOK Posts: 66 Member
    yum, thanks!
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