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Sara is an architectural designer turned work-at-home Mom. She lives in New Jersey by way of New England and New York, with her husband and 3 kids under 8. She loves design, being creative, and spending time with family and friends. She loves checking out local businesses and eats and being apart of the local farm to table community. Continue Reading
This Grilled Beets recipe is easy to make on your grill using fresh, in-season beets, regular olive oil, and fine salt.
Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies are delicious oatmeal cookies without raisins or cranberries. There's plenty of cinnamon and brown sugar flavor in these tasty cookies. They are perfect for a snack or even with your breakfast coffee or tea 😉 (gluten-free option)
This Pumpkin Spice Bread yields 2 generous loaves and can be customized with your favorite toppings and Vanilla Coconut Icing! Bring this favorite to your next holiday gathering! Be sure to check out the other #FoodieMamas pumpkin recipes below!
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are easy to make with peanut butter, an egg, and sugar. They are flour-free and make the most delicious, classic, chewy peanut butter cookies. Enjoy them as is or drizzled with chocolate.
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Let's talk about How To Get Your Afternoon Back & how my family loves salad for dinner - try having Salad for Dinner with Ready Pac elevĀte Salads at Wegman's. I saved time that I would have spent preparing dinner and instead spent the afternoon having fun with my family :D Check out the Snapchat story clip of my husband Eric on a unicycle below to see what we did with our extra free time!
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If you follow my Instagram feed, you will know that it is common practice in my family to have salad for dinner. Our salads usually consist of a healthy variety of greens, various vegetables and sometimes a protein (usually chicken or fish) on top.
When I do not know what to make and have run out of ideas, I make salad for dinner. When I want to eat clean, I make salad for dinner. When we eat too much around the holidays and need to detox, we make salad for dinner. When in doubt - it is always, salad for dinner!
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I usually do my grocery shopping for the whole week, early in the week on Sunday or Monday. I went to my local Wegman's and picked up Organic Sunny Caesar and Organic Southwest Salad Ready Pac elevĀte Salads. I make most of our meals from scratch but I do like to have some items on hand for when I get behind, or if I am tired or have a lack of time. I plan on sharing a typical grocery haul post soon so keep a eye out for that!
I love all the clean and healthy ingredients in the Ready Pac elevĀte Salads, they are:
The packaging is fully recyclable packaging, are printed with Soy-based inks and are FSC Certified material. After we were done with dinner, I just gave the packaging a rinse and put it in my recycling bins. No dirty dishes to deal with and it was easy as pie!
I was so tired after a blogging conference I went to this past Saturday (stay tuned for a whole post about that). Early in the week, on Monday, I did my grocery shopping as usual and picked up the Organic Sunny Caesar and Organic Southwest Ready Pac elevĀte salads.
Monday afternoon, I just wanted to enjoy some time with my family since I was gone all of Saturday. I normally start cooking around the time Eric gets home from work in the afternoon. Now that we have more daylight, I have been pining to get outside more with him and my daughter and enjoy the days.
The weather is really getting gorgeous here in New Jersey, although still a little cool, it's a nice preview of the Summer to come. In the picture below, Eric goes up and down our driveway - on a unicycle - much to the delight and entertainment of my daughter 🙂
Eric has many talents and it very athletic. Check out this video of him on a unicycle from my Snapchat (follow @lifeslilsweets).
Eric enjoyed the Organic Sunny Caesar Salad and I had the Organic Southwest Salad, they were so good! I can also see these as perfect salads to bring to work.
I was able to spend quality time with my family, enjoy the gorgeous weather and get outside of the kitchen!
Thank you for reading and special thanks for Ready Pac elevĀte Salads at Wegman's for sponsoring this post!
Do you ever have a salad for dinner? If so, what kind(s) of salads do you like to make? Please let me know in the comments below!
Linda Lara says
This is wonderful, Sara! And it has made me very hungry for one of these salads! I love the photos of Eric and Margo on the driveway...
Sara says
Thank you so much Linda, I am glad you like it, we had a lovely afternoon that day!
J Trogstad says
Yum! This salad and fixings looks and sounds amazing for dinner! Yummo!