Fridge Salad | EASY HEALTHY MEALS | Advice from a nutrition school drop out.

A few weeks ago I stumbled onto this recipe over at Eat Yourself Skinny. It's a detox salad that's super delicious and easy to throw together because you basically just toss everything into the food processor and it's done. Since then this salad has started a chain reaction of food processor salads in our house.

Food processor fridge salad. It's brilliant! Each time we run out of a salad - they last us about 3 days - I just process up another one. I've been using a lot of varied combinations (purple cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, peppers, black beans, chickpeas) but mostly all with dry-er ingredients.

Then when I'm ready to have a salad, I slice up half an avocado, maybe some cucumber, cut up some cilantro, and mix it into a bowl of my dry salad mix. Top with feta or goat cheese and drizzle on my favourite dressing of the week. It's seriously efficient.. and you can jazz the salads up so easily and tailor it to suit your tastes. Add some sliced chicken breast and you've got yourself an entree. I also love cranberries and fruit in my salads... and cheese.

Bonus use for the salad: Mix it into a smoothie and you have a serious health booster. Try adding some frozen berries, a banana, a scoop of protein powder, some water and/or almond/soy milk and about a cup of salad into a blender. My salad had chickpeas - added protein boost - very filling.

What's your favourite salad fixin's? How often do you squeeze a salad into your diet?...

Cheers,

Ashley

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healthier marshmallow treat bars | BAKING HEALTHY FOOD

Sawyer is a big fan of mini marshmallows, they're like crack to him. But they're sort of terrible for you, so I wanted to try and incorporate some healthier ingredients into the classic marshmallow treat bar, and see what he thought of them.

I replaced the butter with coconut oil, that was my first substitute. And instead of the bag full of butterscotch chips, I used peanut butter, honey and some melted semi-sweet chocolate chips, for the sweet covering.

Then I threw in some sliced almonds, cranberries, rolled oats, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds and flax seeds, and mixed it up. Once smoothed out in a glass baking dish with some parchments paper, I froze it for about two hours.

They turned out really tasty! Sawyer approved and I suppose they are some what of a healthy treat, healthy enough for me. They need to be kept frozen though because they'll melt to mush left out at room temperature.

ingredients:

• 1/2 peanut butter
• heaping handful of chocolate chips
• 6 tbs coconut oil
• 1/4 cup honey
• 3 cups mini marshmallows
• 1 cup muesli
• 1 tbs chia seeds
• 1 tbs flax seeds
• handful of cranberries
• handful shaved almonds

You could get really creative with this recipe on either side of the health spectrum. Add m&ms or white chocolate chips... or goji berries and cocoa nibs.

They're the perfect treat to keep in the freezer for when a sweet craving strikes. Which is pretty much always.

Cheers,

Ashley

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