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Creating a Weekly Salad Bar

In just ten minutes, you’ll learn how to set up a personal salad bar that makes weeknight meals effortless and keeps healthy eating exciting. This activity walks you through prepping your favorite vegetables, beans, and toppings all at once so they’re ready to mix and match throughout the week—plus clever ways to repurpose leftovers like roasted potatoes, grains, or steamed vegetables into fresh new combinations. You’ll walk away with a fridge full of ready-to-go ingredients and the confidence to throw together satisfying, nutritious salads without any last-minute chopping or decision fatigue.

Active Time: 10 minutes | Total Time: 10 minutes
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Prepare a Healthy Salad Bar

Preparing all of your favorite vegetables, beans, and condiments ahead of time will not only save you time in the long run, it will also help keep you on track when it comes to healthy eating.

Have fun with this and get creative. This is also a good time to use up leftovers. Here are just a few more suggestions to help round out a nutritious salad bar:

Roasted or steamed potatoes or other starchy vegetables, tofu, green onions, red onion, beets, zucchini, corn, black beans, lentils, grains, steamed vegetables, roasted vegetables, herbs and spices, coconut bacon (recipe in side bar) . . . the list goes on!

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