Salad of the week club

We all know salads are good for us, full of fiber, vitamins in their natural states and healthy oils. Unfortunately, making salads on a daily basis can be as much fun as cleaning out the crisper drawer. For some reason, after a full day making a healthful salad feels like a monumental chore. Luckily for you, there is the Salad of the Week solution.

I learned this practice from a very healthful roommate that I lived with for a few months (she also stretched during conversations and danced along the beach wearing her walkman). Each week Super Healthy roommate would visit the local farmers market, stock up on produce and then come home and make a giant salad. She would put the mega salad in the biggest Tupperware bowl I had ever seen and then eat from it for the rest of the week (she ate it without dressing, so maybe she was part rabbit).

This method is brilliant for many reasons. Jumping right on top of the produce before it is even put away ensures that nothing is stashed and forgotten, avoiding the sad, gooey fate of so many vegetables bought by well intentioned people.  Also, making one big salad can be a relaxing meditative experience, as opposed to the daily grind of pulling everything out, chopping a little bit of each and then putting everything away again. Salad mass production is much more efficient than the frustrating piece-meal method.

The best part is that when a salad is pre-made and ready to eat you are much more likely to eat more salad thereby keeping your nutritional halo shiny and green.

So get chop, chopping and let the good health roll!