Recipe - Beet, Arugula, and Endive Salad

It is winter in Vermont which means that beets are one of the few vegetables that are considered in season!  I like to try to incorporate local veggies whenever possible though it does get tricky in the middle of the winter.

The blue berries really rounded this salad off nicely.

Beets are super healthy for you because they are full of the following nutrients!

Beets, sliced, cooked 1.00 cup 170.00 grams Calories: 75 GI: med
Nutrient	Amount	DRI/DV (%)	Nutrient Density	World's Healthiest Foods Rating
folate	136.00 mcg	34	8.2	excellent
manganese	0.55 mg	28	6.6	very good
potassium	518.50 mg	15	3.6	very good
copper	0.13 mg	14	3.5	very good
fiber	3.40 g	14	3.3	good
magnesium	39.10 mg	10	2.4	good
phosphorus	64.60 mg	9	2.2	good
vitamin C	6.12 mg	8	2.0	good
iron	1.34 mg	7	1.8	good
vitamin B6	0.11 mg	6	1.6

via the world's healthiest foods

Ingredients

• 1-2 Medium Sized Beets
• 1 Endive
• Arugula
• Spring Mix Salad Greens
• Blue Berries
• Balsamic Vinaigrette
• Olive Oil
• Salt and Pepper

Prep

1.  Clean and peel the beets.  I suggest doing this over the sink because they will turn everything red.  Once peeled, quarter beets and then thinly slice and set aside.
2.  Remove the core from the endive and separate leaves from one another.  Thinly slice leaves horizontally and set aside with the beets.
3.  Combine the arugula and spring salad greens to a proportion that you enjoy.  For example I love arugula so my ratio of arugula to salad greens is closer to 3:1 than say someone who isn't a huge fan of arugula.  Their ratio may be closer to 1:3 arugula to spring greens.  Slightly chop the greens.  You can include the beet greens here.  (I used them in a separate dish)
4.  In a large glass bowl combine balsamic vinaigrette and olive oil at a 2:1 ratio and season with salt and pepper.  I tend to dress my salads lightly using just enough dressing to barely coat all of the ingredients.
5.  Add the beets, endive, and arugula/greens to the dressing and toss.
6.  Using your green container, divide the salad into as many full green containers as possible.  I was able to divide mine into 3 separate green containers, putting each into their own tupperware dish.
7.   Using the purple container, fill it half way with blueberries.  Add to the tupperware dishes already containing your salad.

Container Amounts Per Tupperware Dish

• 1 Green
• 1/2 Purple
• 1 tsp

**Easily and scrumptiously pairs with smoked lox to add 1/2 a Red to your meal.

Some of my meal prepping for the week including my beet, endive and arugula salad.  I also used my beets in my green bean stir fry and roasted some to go with my roasted butternut squash!

☆ Stephanie Ann

Recipe - Cucumber, Avocado, Strawberry, Cilantro Salad

Okay this recipe is one of my favorites!  Super duper easy to make, very flavorful, and I'm still excited to eat it after multiple days of having it as one of my small meals!  A little taste of summer year round.  ❤

Cucumber, Avocado, Strawberry, Cilantro Salad

Ingredients

• Strawberries (fresh strawberries will taste the best and their juice will mix with the lime juice)
• Cucumbers
• Avocado
• Red Onion
• Cilantro
• Lime Juice (or a fresh lime)
• Cumin
• Dill
• Himalayan Rock Salt
• Pepper

Prep

1. Slice strawberries and cucumbers.  To make multiple days worth I simply slice a purple container full of strawberries and a green container full of cucumbers and throw it straight into my storage tupperware.  Rinse and repeat for how many days I want.  I find a standard strawberry package you would find at the grocery store is enough for about 3 purple containers and one long english cucumber is about right for 3 green containers.
2. Quarter an avocado.  Cube and add 1/4 of the avocado to each of your storage tupperware contaienrs.  I find that 1/4 of an avocado is a good approximation for 1 blue container.
3. Dice the red onion.  Depending on how much you like raw onion will depend on how much you add to each day.  I generally do a heaping tablespoon worth of red onion into each of my containers figuring that much nicely fills in the air gaps left by the space between my cucumber slices in my green container.
4. Separate the cilantro leaves from the stems.  This is an herb so if you LOVE cilantro heap it on, if it isn't your fav limit how much you put onto your salad.
5. Slice a lime in half and squeeze the lime juice equally into your three containers.  (Hint: The rest of the lime works well as a water flavor enhancer!)
6. Add cumin, dill (fresh if you can), salt, and pepper to flavor!

Container amounts per tupperware dish

• 1 Green
• 1 Blue
• 1 Purple

**Easily paired with 2 hard boiled eggs, baked fish, chicken breast, or shakeology to add 1 Red to your meal!**

Here I've paired it with my Vegan Tropical Strawberry Shakeology!

☆ Stephanie Ann