Salad for Toddlers

Getting toddlers to eat salad isn't always the easiest task to accomplish, but here's something you might want to try.

Cut the greens and other vegetables into tiny pieces, then mix with your favorite whole foods dressing, such as The Pioneer Woman's Homemade Ranch Dressing recipe.

This ensures that each salad bite is dressed and I've noticed that toddlers enjoy a salad more this way. Top with croutons and you're set!

Ingredients

* Greens, cut up into ½ inch pieces
* Other vegetables, cut up into ½ inch pieces
* Salad dressing
* Croutons

Directions

1. Combine all vegetables in a bowl.

2. Pour on salad dressing and mix well with vegetables.

3. Top with croutons.

Kids love eating salad that is dressed in each bite!

Direct recipe link: http://keyingredient.com/recipes/328750/

Black Bean and Green Chili Salad

I didn't feel like going to the store for groceries today, so the 15-year-old girl and I scrounged through my mother's kitchen cabinets and came up with this dinner...

The strawberry preparation is simple. Just wash well, and remove the greens...

The asparagus preparation is simple as well. Just wash asparagus and saute in butter, then add salt...

Just make sure your brother doesn't eat half of them before they are served...

To make the salad, round up the following ingredients...

6 cups of spring greens
15 oz can of black beans (about 2 cups)
1 small can of chopped green chili (about 1/2 cups)
1 cup of cubed gouda cheese
6 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
Ranch dressing (for an awesome homemade recipe from an amazing lady, go HERE)
Flax seeds

Toss first five ingredients...

...then serve with dressing and sprinkle on flax seeds...

...and if you're really lucky, you'll be having a good hair day when you serve this. This is a rare occurrence, so I am sharing, and this is the best shot I could get...

Thanks for listening.