After a week of vacation (check out my pictures from sunny San Francisco!) and lots of eating out, Brandon and I are trying to eat as fresh as we can this coming week! Even though we adore trying new restaurants and being adventurous with food, there is still nothing better than coming home from vacation and cooking for yourself!! Yesterday, we grabbed tons of fresh ingredients at the grocery store and I could not wait to get my hands on them!!
I was all too excited to put together lots of fresh veggies! I ended up compiling an eight vegetable salad! We both enjoyed this mix in a La Tortilla Factory Multigrain wrap! It was delicious and completely satisfying! I even have some leftover for lunches throughout the week! Give this one a try! I know you’ll love it!
Tomorrow: Vacation Food: The what, where, when, and why!!
*Side note* Brandon had the computer tied up last night, so this was all I could muster for today!
Eight Vegetable Salad by The Healthy Apron!
~4-6 Servings
- 1 cup organic garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/2 cup frozen peas, thawed, cooked, cooled
- 1 cup frozen broccoli, thawed, cooked, cooled
- 1 large organic carrot, shredded
- 3/4 cup broc0-slaw (the kind in the bag)
- 4-5 leaves of organic endive, shredded
- 1/4-1/2 cup diced yellow onion
- 1/3 cup diced red pepper
- 1/3 cup shredded cabbage
- 1/4 cup cubed part-skim mozzarella (small cubes!)
- Dressing: 1 T olive oil + 2 T Fig Balsamic + pinch of sugar (courtesy of Jessica from How Sweet It Is)
Directions:
Prep vegetables and combine in a large bowl. Add garbanzo beans and mix well. Prepare salad dressing (or use the dressing of your choice) and gently pour over salad. I ended up using only about 1/2 of the dressing mixture and found it coated quite nicely! Use your own judgment!! Place in fridge to cool or use immediately! Great as a salad or used in a wrap!!
Nutritional Profile: 168 calories, 5.5 g Fat (1.3 g Sat., 0.8 g poly, 3.0 g mono), 4.1 mg cholesterol, 23 g carbohydrates, 5.5 g Fiber, 6.7 g protein, 260 mg sodium, 343 mg potassium
- Vitamin A: 67%
- Vitamin C: 62%
- Folate: 25%
QUESTION:
What is your favorite part about coming home from vacation?
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It’s so nice to travel, but so nice to come home!
Even though I love eating out too, it’s so great to come back home, go grocery shopping and COOK in your own kitchen
Can’t wait to see your vacation foodie pics!
We missed you…but what a great week of guest posts. I can’t wait to see your post tomorrow, but thank you for sharing such a wonderful and healthy salad with us. One of my favorite parts of coming home? Being able to cook and enjoy my own food and baking!
That salad looks delish!
My favourite part is coming home and sleeping in my own bed, with my own pillow. That and hugging my kids, if they were left behind.
yup, i am definitely stealing this recipe. i’ve been meaning to start eating beans, i just didn’t know how to do it. (i’m not much of a cook.) best part about coming home from vacation is the detox. usually vacation involved a lot of food and drink, and by the end my belly misses its normal state
when I come home from vacation.. I enjoy more homemade food and the routine!
The best part about coming home from vacation is my bed and my own stocked refrigerator! haha
Your meal looks great, I love broccoli slaw!
That looks YUMMY! I agree, when I get back from a vacation, all I want is healthy food! Or even a weekend away and too much junk…I crave something like that 8 vegetable salad!
oh yum!! i love when u can cram in as much veggies as possible and still have it look to-die-for and taste SO YUMMY! <3
Yum! That wrap looks great. I feel like I went on vacation this weekend with how much I went out and ate out. I really need to detox in order to get all those toxins out. This wrap looks great. I need to head to the store asap to load up on fresh fruits and veggies!
WOWza, that is one power-packed wrap! YUMMY! And fig balsamic sounds intriguing…
This looks delicious!! Glad you had a nice trip!!!
My fav part about coming home is eating regularly again…and mostly seeing my Munchkin!
This sounds and LOOKS so yummy! Strangely enough, I ate healthier on my week vacay in Montauk than I did the week after! I think I was just medicating my post-vacay blues with food. Too much of it :/
That wrap looks great! And I agree with Heather, coming home to my bed is definitely the best part of coming home in the first place!
you combined all my faves! yummy!
the best part about coming home is definitely sleeping in my own bed…and being able to wake up with access to everything in my kitchen!
That salad looks delicious and full of yummy protein!
I love coming home to my cats, who are always so eager to see me after a long trip.
That’s the kind of wrap I love–minus the onions but I’m a crazy onion hater. It looks so colorful!
oh man that is chock full of veggie goodness, yum! My favorite part from coming home is getting back in enough time to have a vacation from a vacation and get things cleaned up
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This looks great! And I’d probably use a small amount of dressing too — I like things lightly coated not drenched in dressing.
My favorite part of coming home is getting all the laundry started and climbing into my own bed
That’s my kind of salad! Best part about coming home is my own bed.