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Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad

January 10, 2021 by April Leave a Comment

A white plate filled Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad

This Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad is perfect when you need a simple salad fast. It’s a delicious winter salad with bright pomegranate seeds and crunchy pistachios. This Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad is always a hit over the holidays at my house – and at any point in the winter really. An…

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Filed Under: Front Page, Gluten Free, Make It Tonight, Salads, Supper, Winter Tagged With: easy salad, salad, winter salad

Healthy Taco Salad with Ground Beef and Kidney Beans

October 24, 2020 by April Leave a Comment

A white plate filled with romaine lettuce ground beef and kidney beans topped with shredded cheese

This Healthy Taco Salad with Ground Beef and Kidney Beans is perfect for a busy weeknight when you need a meal that comes together in 30 minutes and tastes delicious! Plus, there’s chips! Chips. For. Supper. I know. My 15 year old self is still very happy about this fact. It’s mind blowing🤯 This Healthy Taco Salad…

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Filed Under: Dinner, Lunch, Make It Tonight, Salads, Supper Tagged With: easy weeknight meal, ground beef, healthy meals, healthy supper, hot taco salad, salad

Summer Quinoa Salad with Blueberries and Mango

August 23, 2020 by April 2 Comments

A white dish of Summer Quinoa Salad with Mango and Blueberries with a gold spoon in itQuinoa with fruit? Is that a thing? Is what I wondered to myself while I threw a bunch of yummy ingredients together and before I knew it...BAM🎆 This Summer Quinoa Salad with Blueberries and Mango was born into this crazy world. And lemme tell you my friend: you'll be glad it's here. As it turns...

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Filed Under: Easy Recipes, Gluten Free, Lunch, Make Ahead Meals, Meal Prep, On-the-go meals, Salads, Snacks, Summer Tagged With: easy quinoa salad, quinoa, quinoa salad with fruit

Summer Peach and Basil Salad with Feta

July 4, 2020 by April Leave a Comment

Summer Peach Basil Salad with Feta on a white platter with gold flat wearWhat's fresh, simple, healthy and oh-so delicious? This Summer Peach and Basil Salad with Feta my friend! It's so GOOD. And truly, beyond easy. You literally chop all the things up (and by "chop", I mean like rip the basil...mash the feta between your hands...), add those peaches and you've gotta salad.  This recipe for...

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Filed Under: Entertaining, Gluten Free, Lunch, Make It Tonight, Most Popular, Salads, Snacks Tagged With: easy peach salad, peach salad, peach summer salad, summer peach salad

Simple Romaine Salad with Radish and Parmesan

June 8, 2020 by April Leave a Comment

Simple Romaine Salad with Radish and Parmesan on a white plate with a gold forkThe sun is shining, the flowers are a bloomin' and dare I say, summer is in the air. And when it comes to warmer weather, fresh, healthy and easy salads are just what we need to keep eating healthy and spend as little time as possible in the kitchen. Enter: this Simple Romaine Salad with...

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Filed Under: Lunch, Make It Tonight, Salads, Side Dishes Tagged With: easy romaine salad, easy salad, salad, simple romaine salad

Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice

May 3, 2020 by April Leave a Comment

Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice on a large white platterThis Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice recipe couldn't have come at a better time🙋‍♀️ Let me back up: we got a meal delivery service. It's pretty cool! We get all the ingredients for 3 meals per week delivered to our door. The food is really, really yummy. It's pretty close to restaurant quality from...

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Lunch, Make It Tonight, Meal Planning, Salads Tagged With: brown rice, chicken, easy recipe, fibre, healthy salad, protein, salad recipe, supper

Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta

April 20, 2020 by April 4 Comments

Close up shot of Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta on a white background

This Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta is a fantastic healthy dish to add to your meal prep day. You’ll love it for a healthy lunch on-the-go too!   Since I’m working from home now more and the kids are home, making lunches at home seems waaaaay more work than packing a few lunches. Maybe it…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Lunch, Make It Tonight, Most Popular, Salads, Side Dishes, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: easy quinoa salad, healthy snack, lunch on-the-go, quinoa salad

Moroccan-Spiced Black Bean Salad

January 19, 2020 by April 2 Comments

Close-up shot of the moroccan-spiced black bean salad on a antique silver platterWant a salad that can keep you satisfied, healthy and delicious? I know. Sounds like a pipe dream, right? But fear not, dear reader: I've got a salad for you that hits all these marks. And it's this Moroccan-Spiced Black Bean Salad 😄 With our schedules being so full these days with work, school, hockey,...

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Filed Under: Lunch, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian Tagged With: black beans, easy recipe, meal salad, portable salad, salad

Easy Winter Kale Salad with Spiced Nuts

December 10, 2019 by April 1 Comment

easy winter kale saladThis post was sponsored by Canola Eat Well. I was a guest at their cooking event at the Luxe Appliance Studio in Toronto.  Event photos by Josh-Tenn Yuk courtesy of Canola Eat Well. Food photos by me. [mk_divider style="thick_solid" divider_width="one_third"] This Easy Winter Kale Salad with Spiced Nuts is my new go-to this season. When...

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Filed Under: Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetables, Vegetarian Tagged With: almonds, easy kale recipe, easy kale salad, edamame, kale, kale salad, sweet potatoes

Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds

November 25, 2019 by April Saunders 4 Comments

Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds with nuts and jar of dressing in the background.What to do with a massive contain of spinach? Make Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds of course :) Well, and add it everywhere else I can! Spinach in my smoothies (really - you gotta try it), spinach in mason jar salads, like these: [mk_image src="https://aprilsaunders.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IMG_9588-1.jpg" group="_general" crop="false"] And let's not forget the...

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Filed Under: Meatless Mondays, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian Tagged With: antioxidants, folate, healthy salads, salad, shrimp, spinach, vitamin C

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