Small-Budget Big-Taste Salad

because it’s true that you can buy a bunch of white carbs like ramen noodles, chips, or white bread on sale and get a cart full of so-called food for very little money. But in reality, you have not bought any “real” food, you have simply bought yourself a blood sugar spike. This salad uses real food, is real yummy, and is real cheap! Can’t beat that. This recipe is found in the "Family Salad" section of our Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook, page 185. This is a family-size recipe that will serve 6 to 8 people.

Courses: Dinner, Lunch

Servings: 6

Description

Tuna and rice are some of the cheapest real foods you can buy. We had to say “real” because it’s true that you can buy a bunch of white carbs like ramen noodles, chips, or white bread on sale and get a cart full of so-called food for very little money. But in reality, you have not bought any “real” food, you have simply bought yourself a blood sugar spike. This salad uses real food, is real yummy, and is real cheap! Can’t beat that. This recipe is found in the "Family Salad" section of our Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook, page 185. This is a family-size recipe that will serve 6 to 8 people.

Ingredients

3 heads romaine lettuce (3 to 4 heads) (or iceberg)
20 oz tuna (4 - 5oz cans) (water packed, drained)
1 1/2 cups cottage cheese (1 & 1/2 to 2 cups) (1%)
3 cups brown rice (cooked)
2 Tbs olive oil (extra virgin)
1 cup mango (chunks) (or other fruit except berries, as you need more E fuel here)
1 lemon (s) (juiced)
Blendtons (See Recipe Notes belowe)
3 doonks TH Pure Stevia Extract Powder
TH Mineral Salt (to taste)
black pepper (to taste)
chili powder (to taste)
crushed red pepper flakes (optional)

Instructions

1
Rip the romaine into small pieces and place in a large bowl. Pour the olive oil onto the lettuce and massage it in with your hands (this softens the leaves and makes all the greens feel like they have a fattier mouth feel, even though we’re in E mode). Add the lemon juice, then the stevia, and sprinkle on the seasonings. Toss them with the lettuce.
2
Add the tuna, cottage cheese, and brown rice. Put the mango chunks in a food processor and pulse several times until they are broken down into smaller pieces (but have not turned into mango mush). Add to the salad.
3
Toss the salad well, then sprinkle on the Blendtons and anoptional sprinkle of some red pepper flakes (if using).

Note

Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/small-budget-big-taste-salad-e/