I’m giving away two copies of Eat This, courtesy of Renee Tougas of FIMBY!
Have you ever felt like you or your children were eating too much bread, pasta, or grains? Or, maybe you served a well-balanced meal, but the focus turns out to be on the bread and not on the vegetables? Have you thought about adding a nutrient dense, filling meal to your regular rotation?
If you could see my hand, it’s raised high in the air.
So, as a result, I’ve turned to meal-sized salads. When our entire meal is a salad, and everyone’s hungry, we fill our tummies with greens, veggies, nuts/seeds, and beans all smothered in flavorful sauces or dressings. One of our favorite meal-sized salads is one that I posted here a little while ago – Tex Mex Salad.
The kids don’t ask for more bread, because there isn’t any. The focus is on colorful foods, packed with so much powerful nutrition…fiber, phytonutrients, omega 3s – all the stuff our bodies crave that deeply nourish our cells.
If you follow the blog FIMBY, written by the eloquent Renee Tougas, you may know that she just released an ebook called Eat This: Meal Salads and Whole Foods Dressings. Renee has been an inspiration to our family in many ways and now you have the opportunity to be inspired to incorporate meal-sized salads into your repertoire. In Eat This, Renee explains why her family eats meal sized salads and talks about the various components she includes in hers. She includes six of her favorite dressing recipes made with whole ingredients, plus three additional recipes for a total of nine recipes.
There is also a contribution by me(!) on how to sprout beans, which I have found to make them much more digestible than just cooking them straight from dried. Sprouted legumes may be used on your salad raw, made into raw hummus, or cooked. You can find my brown rice sprouting method here.
Renee has generously offered two of my readers her new ebook for free in this giveaway ($4.99 value)!
To enter the giveaway, comment below noting your favorite type of greens to use in a salad. You may enter a second time if you “like” kidoing! on Facebook and then come back to comment to tell me that you did that.
I will choose a random winner on Monday, August 27 and Renee will email the ebook to you (in both ereader and PDF formats).
Giveaway has ended! Stay tuned for the winners to be announced!
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My favorite type of lettuce is any that is fresh from my garden! We have tried a variety of types and butter crunch and a mescalin mix have been our favorites. The new book sounds great!
My absolute favorite salad green is spinach…so versatile and healthful.
I love using spinach in my salads. It gives a colorful green to the dish, plus lots of nutritiens, crispiness,and managable bites.
My favorite is romaine lettuce. It’s mild enough that my kids will eat it, but still highly nutritious.
I like kale on my salads.
I like spinach on my salads but need to incorporate more kale in my diet.
I love romaine and spinach with a little butter lettuce.
I love baby spinach!
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I like red lettuce.
I must confess that we are boring and stick to red lettuce, romaine, and spinach. “Adventurous” is the spring greens mix from Sam’s Club. But, I’d love a copy of the book as we try to transition (me, hubby, and 4 kiddos who are home all day) to a salad every day at lunch!
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I like dinosaur kale, broccoli, red cabbage, carrots shredded, tomato, avocado-with cashew nuts cream dressing
We grew a salad mix from our garden this year that included romaine, mustard greens, beet greens and pea shoots. We loved it and our farmers market customers did too!!
I love pretty much all greens but my favorite for a salad is arugula (rocket!)
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mmm my favorite green is probably swiss chard or arugula. oh it’s hard to choose. but great giveaway and site. thanks!
Hey Jennifer, I’ve just popped over from FIMBY. Love your blog. And I LOVE Salad. My best little addition is to add aruglua! Low in calories and high in vitamins A and C.
I love a mix of greens, but I probably fall back on romaine and spinach most of the time. I would love to incorporate more raw kale, but I tend to cook it most of the time for some reason! Thanks for the giveaway, I’ve been really wanting a copy of this book!
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Romaine would be the favorite green in our house.
Mmm. My favorite green changes with what I get in my CSA box, but right now it is probably romaine. Er, maybe arugula. Ask me again on Tuesday when I pick up next week’s box.
And I liked you on FB, which means I get another chance to vote on my favorite greens for salad, right? In the spring, it’s black-seeded Simpson lettuce. Reminds me of my mother’s garden when I was a child.
I love using a mix of greens: baby bitters, like chard and kale and peppery arugula with red leaf and romaine, and herbs: dill, basil, cilantro. Thanks for the opportunity to win this great book!
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I love organic arugula!!! 🙂
There are so many… Spinach, and romaine, and arugula. And of course, that wonderful gift from Mother Earth in early spring: wild greens!