60g lettuce
20g spinach
85g wild caught Alaskan salmon (often fresh!)
1/2 avocado
30g red pepper
12g red onion
1" slice cucumber
stalk of celery
3 sliced snap pea pods
1 hard boiled egg
10g sunflower seeds
just a few (5g) craisins
Newman's Own Lite Balsamic about 35g
This is really getting fun! I'm trying my hand at not weighing the sunflower seeds, craisins, red onion and red pepper. I've been trying to see how many "finger-fulls" it takes per portion. I've really spent the past 18 months learning about portions. I'm so grateful I've taken so much time crunching calories on my spreadsheets, because it has given me a whole new paradigm for portion sizes.
I haven't done the spreadsheet on this salad, but I don't feel like I really need to...I want to get away from relying on the scale and the calorie sheets, so this is a step toward that. I know it is right in where I need to be...maybe out of curiosity I'll do the sheet, we'll see.
On the salmon...I can buy a fresh filet at the deli, cook it up and get about four servings (from a $10 piece of salmon). I don't miss the sesame stix nor the garbanzo beans, which is SHOCKING. All the fat in the avocado, egg and salmon make this "S", so often I'll have a few small pieces of Skinny Chocolate* after my salad if I feel a sweet craving.
When I don't have a salmon slab, I grab my pre-prepared frozen chicken baggie for a substitute. Right now I'm loving the salmon, though.
I love my "new" salad!
*A note about "Skinny Chocolate"...the ingredients include:
-cocoa
-coconut oil (extra virgin, cold pressed)
-truvia
I CAN eat this! "Avoid obvious sugars" doesn't apply to this, because there's no blood sugar spiking SUGAR! Hooray! Though a bit on the bitter side, it totally satisfies! And a little skringe of peanut butter is heavenly! The last batch I made included chopped peanuts and unsweetened shredded coconut-YUM!
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