Salad in A Jar

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  • cottoncandyclover
    cottoncandyclover Posts: 48 Member
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  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    edited January 2016
    If I didn't already have a plan for this week's lunch (collard green and black eyed pea soup http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/collard_green_black_eyed_pea_soup.html sans bread, on top of polenta), I would recreate the salad I just ate for lunch today in a jar.

    From the bottom up, it would be:
    -1 tbsp olive oil (or flax seed oil)
    -1 tbsp lime juice
    -1/4 c reduced sugar craisins
    -1/2 c cooked brown rice (the one I ate for lunch today had 100 grams. I weighed but suspect this weight is closer to 1 c)
    -3 cups baby arugula
    -20 hazelnuts
  • U2R2
    U2R2 Posts: 260 Member
    I went with a taco salad.

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    Lot of work not to eat a serving afterward. Can't wait to try it out for lunch tomorrow.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    These are fun ideas! I'm such a pig when it comes to the greens part of salads (like I use the normal amounts of all the other stuff but 2 or 3 times as much green stuff), that I would need an embarrassingly HUGE jar to fit mine! :# I guess I could get a small jar for dressings and toppings, and bring my lettuce and other greens in a big bag or tupperware container separately and dump them all together when it's time to mix? Maybe that defeats the whole purpose of the salad in a jar. I guess it's back to finding an enormous jar to accommodate my greens. I'm good at complicating things...
  • Tassiemum_3
    Tassiemum_3 Posts: 5 Member
    Thank you not a huge lettuce fan will try on Monday after grocery shop.
  • U2R2
    U2R2 Posts: 260 Member
    The taco salad jars where quite good. The corn chips absorbed some moisture and went soggy but the greens held up well and it was better cold than I anticipated.

    Went with a more traditional garden style salad with canned chicken this week. Didn't jar the dressings so I could follow my whims each day. Today's was Raspberry vinaigrette. 440 calories total.
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  • dklibert
    dklibert Posts: 1,196 Member
    edited January 2017
    Here is an idea to keep your dressing and toppings separate until ready to eat. Use re-cycled fruit cups or applesauce cups. Dole, Mott's and Musselmans fit a wide mouth jar. soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/p/masonables.html

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    Or check out this Kickstarter page Mason to Go. They are going to produce a lid that joins a standard mouth jar to a wide mouth jar so you can do the same thing without plastics. https://kickstarter.com/projects/kentuckyhome/mason-to-go-masonables-easy-mason-jar-lunchables

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  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,281 Member
    Oh boy. How about a glass Pyrex storage bowl?
    Can someone post their fork? I don't have a fork in my house that wouldn't require me to put half my hand in the jar to get out the last of that salad. Sounds like a gimmick for regular salad, but if it helps you eat a great lunch, that's fantastic. They look yummy, just challenging for people like me to eat :blush:
  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,281 Member
    hmrambling wrote: »
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    Ohhhhh!!!! Wait, you dump it out?? Jeez. I must be too literal! Now they're ALL making sense!
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    Sooooo excited to see this thread continue!

    @U2R2 I bet your taco salads were exciting to think about! It's really hard when you make a good one to not eat it right away for sure! I felt that strongly about the chicken-mango-almond. Since then our household has switched over to just fish (pescitarian), and I have learned about the joys of frozen mango. I'm excited to try out a vegihooligan version of that one!
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    @girlwithcurls2 HA! :smile:

    There were quite a few days when I worked on the crisis team that I ended up eating straight out of the jar. Once with a spoon (very challenging). If I were going to do it again, I would pack a collapsible bowl in my lunch bag now that I know they exist.
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    @dklibert Thanks for the posh upcycle idea on how to keep crunchy bits from getting too much moisture with the reuse of fruit cup. Genius!
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    edited January 2017
    @jenilla1

    No excuses! They come in up to gallon sizes!

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    These are "vintage" small mouth sizes. Wide-mouth 64 oz (half gallons) are totally a thing. I'm pretty sure I've seen some 1.5 quart sized ones kicking around at a hardware store, too.
  • hmrambling
    hmrambling Posts: 321 Member
    Burrito in a Mason jar :)

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