Salad in a mason jar

ROCKS! I know you've all seen it on Pinterest.

I put raspberry vinagrette on the bottom, layed green olives, sliced tomato, shredded cheese, and butter lettuce.

nom nom nom

I'm going to look it up now.

Liz was just talking about this the other night!!!

Guess I'll be searching for that tonight during my ritual pintresting!

Not mine but here's the gist of it.



I made another one tonight. I'm about to search some recipes and get creative. They're SO NICE to just pop in the bag and leave for work in the morning.

I do this everyday for work and school!

Have you tried putting meat in yours? Does it turn out ok? I've been tossing around the idea of adding some turkey lunch meat for some extra protein.

I've been making them for DH's lunch.

Re: meat, i tried grilled, sliced chicken breasts, but he didn't like it as much as when I sent them separate. I liked it fine though.

Hmmmmm. I may try that. We make a ton of chicken breast during the week!

We do too. I had to get rid of them somehow!

Seriously though, I loved it. I grilled them plain and the salad was a basic summer blend of a sweeter vinaigrette, sliced strawberries, candied walnuts (but it tasted yummy with plain ones too) and a little bit of feta. I think the hubs just didn't like having a girly salad.

LOL! I'll admit, I've never had strawberries in my salad.

Whaaaaa! You've got to try it! Well if you're a strawberry fan. Otherwise, hit up some blueberries. You can also do either mandarin orange slices or drained pineapple chunks and sprinkle it with shredded coconut.

It just sounds so weird mixing fruit with lettuce.

I should say though...I've been cutting out alot of lettuce since I've become bored with it.

I'll tear up a cucumber and tomato salad though!

Try different types of lettuce. Really I prefer it with spinach, but a spring mix is good too.

Oh this is a awesome idea. Must pintrest this tonight! I didn't manage to get to pintrest yesterday...Modcloth has been getting in my way lately!