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Salad Receipe

Posts: 36 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Mixed lettuce, 1 teaspoon red chili beans, 1 teaspoon northern beans, fat free mozerella cheese, 1 can of chicken, mix together, drizzle spicy mustard....yummy!

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  • Posts: 460 Member
    🙊


    For lunch today I had a standard salad mix with 2tbs of salsa, 4oz grilled chicken chunks, and 2 tbs of sour cream.
    It was pretty good 👍
  • Posts: 25,763 Member
    I've never even heard of someone measuring beans by the teaspoon.
  • Posts: 1,187 Member
    Perhaps it's meant to say tablespoon?

    Even then, I wouldn't measure beans in "spoons" but at least you'd get more than 2 or 3 beans!
  • Posts: 8,626 Member
    edited December 2020
    i mean.... if you like it i guess that's all that matters

    and a teaspoon of beans? why bother?

    my lunch today was a chicken and bean burrito. 296 calories and it will actually keep me full until supper.
  • Posts: 1,941 Member
    I’m also confused by the beans, but more so by a can of chicken! What the heck?

    We do have chicken in cans in the U.K. but only in a super creamy super calorific cream sauce. Is that what is intended here? 🤮
  • Posts: 2,989 Member
    I’m also confused by the beans, but more so by a can of chicken! What the heck?

    We do have chicken in cans in the U.K. but only in a super creamy super calorific cream sauce. Is that what is intended here? 🤮

    Canned chicken in quite common in the U.S., just like canned tuna. Typically just packed in water.
  • Posts: 2,989 Member
    Like this, for reference. Nothing wrong with it, I use it to make chicken salad.
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  • Posts: 3,391 Member
    I could inhale two beans!
  • Posts: 8,626 Member
    For lunch last week I prepped a week's worth of Greek-inspired salads in 16oz jars. You layer them with the dressing on the bottom (a delicious lemon-oregano vinaigrette), followed by the heavy stuff (in my case, chickpeas and sun-dried tomatoes, since fresh tomatoes don't keep well in the fridge), then the lighter stuff (diced cucumber and red onion), then the greens (spinach). Clocked in under 300 calories all told, tasty as heck, kept fine for five days in the fridge.

    I think the next one I'm going to do will be raspberry vinaigrette, grilled chicken, mandarin orange slices, craisins, sunflower seeds, and spinach again for the greens.

    you know I tried those mason jar salads years and years ago. i found they were a PITA to get OUT of the jar. maybe I was doing it wrong LOL

    and I think your next salad will be my lunch tomorrow. I have all that stuff LOLOLOL
  • Posts: 7,887 Member
    edited December 2020
    I think the deal with mason jar salads is the easy of mixing everything up (or re-mixing) by shaking. I was thinking about trying them out for lunches back in February or March, but then covid became an issue before I got around to it, and since then I've been mostly at home during the day. For home, just using a big bowl seems easier, and I wouldn't prep salads to bring to work days in advance anyway, but the night before/morning of.
  • Posts: 8,626 Member
    senalay788 wrote: »

    This belongs in the thread about trendy foods. Who ever came up with this idea must like making things very very difficult.

    that was my opinion of it when I had tried it.

    they were pretty in the fridge, though LOL

    not that hard to package your dressing in a mini container and put that inside a larger container holding the rest of your salad. and much easier to eat ;)
  • Posts: 36 Member
    senalay788 wrote: »
    So you measure beans by spoons and chicken by the can? Interesting. Also, horrible.

  • Posts: 36 Member
    It probaley doesn't sound good but actually it was good and tasty. I didnt want to use too much beans because they are high in carbs. The full can of chicken i used because of the high protein....it keeps you full longer.
  • Posts: 28,055 Member
    It probaley doesn't sound good but actually it was good and tasty. I didnt want to use too much beans because they are high in carbs. The full can of chicken i used because of the high protein....it keeps you full longer.

    Hi Lisa,

    So this is not a typo; you used a teaspoon each of beans?

    "1 teaspoon red chili beans, 1 teaspoon northern beans"
  • Posts: 36 Member
    Just a little under 1 teaspoon of each bean but i had a large plate of lettuce. I ate half of the plate and later on ate the other half.
  • Posts: 6,644 Member
    That's like 1 bean... what the actual. :noway:
  • Posts: 28,055 Member
    Ok, thanks for providing the context that you were diabetic :)

    Congrats on the weight loss and no longer being diabetic!
  • Posts: 6,644 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Ok, thanks for providing the context that you were diabetic :)

    Congrats on the weight loss and no longer being diabetic!

    This... congrats on the weight loss and health markers
  • Posts: 7,887 Member
    Beans are pretty high fiber, which I think is actually supposed to be good for T2D (specifically, eating carbs with fiber and protein). Fiber is important in general. Did your doctor give you any recommendations for diet?
  • Posts: 36 Member

    This... congrats on the weight loss and health markers

  • Posts: 36 Member
    Thank you....
  • Posts: 1,187 Member
    Lol....im slowly introducing beans to my diet. I was a diabetic and had to watch my carbs. My recent lab stated i no longer have diabetes due to losing 30 lbs. Im so happy but scared about the carbs.

    But was it really one single bean or two beans? You can't get more than 1 or 2 on a teaspoon.
  • Posts: 36 Member
    Lol....
  • Posts: 9,147 Member
    I have gallon mason jars and they wouldn’t hold my salads. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • Posts: 1,187 Member
    edited December 2020
    Lol....

    I don't get it. Why is it "lol"? It's a genuine question, you posted a recipe and I don't understand how to make the recipe.
  • Posts: 42 Member
    Be careful introducing beans in to your diet some diabetics can handle beans and some of us can not if beans prove to be a problem look at lentils. I cook a lot with lentils.
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