The Best Mediterranean Salad

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Time for another Recipe Redux! Here is this month’s prompt: Limpin’ Along for Lunch

Ever get in a lunch rut? Need new ideas for packing your kids’ or your own lunch? Are packable noontime options dwindling? Surely you’ve met the ‘What shall I pack for lunch?” question head-on with creative ideas. Please share your healthy lunch recipe – so we can swap it into our own rotation.

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Lunch is a bit of a letdown meal for me… I always look forward to breakfast (oatmeal, yum!) and do most of my cooking at dinner which is where I get creative and experiment. Lunch leaves something to be desired so I can’t wait to read through my fellow bloggers recipes! Usually for lunch I eat leftovers from dinner (which are never as food as the real thing) or I batch cook something to eat every day that week (such as this or this)- aka more leftovers. However there has been a salad I have consistently gotten from a local restaurant week after week after week– I usually treat myself to lunch out once/week. I’m obsessed, continuing to go the same place time after time as evidenced by my Instagram account. This is literally the best salad ever and I can’t wait for you guys to make it, just go do it, trust me!

FYI this recipe will make 4-5 lunches for the week- portion/divide appropriately. This is more of an assembly of ingredients to make the worlds best salad than a serious recipe- the only thing you have to actually cook/make is the quinoa tabbouleh and its super easy. I recommend packing the spinach separately for fresher tasting, drier greens. This recipe is super forgiving but I do offer some portioning guidelines.

Ingredients:

Tabbouleh:

1 cup cooked quinoa

1/2 cup chopped parsley

1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved

1 large cucumber, diced

1 tsp garlic powder

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 cup lemon juice

salt and pepper to taste

Salad:

1 large bag  spinach

1 can sliced beets

1 can artichoke quarters

4 -6 oz feta cheese

1 small jar Mediterranean olives

1 container tzatziki

Directions:

1. Combine all tabbouleh ingredients and mix thoroughly (best to marinate overnight for optimal flavor)
2. Using 4-5 large Pyrex or Tubberware container begin portioning out ingredients
3. One salad should have about 2 TBSP tzatziki, 3-4 artichokes, 8-10 sliced beets, 1 TBSP feta, 4-6 olives, and 1/2 cup tabbouleh piled on top of a handful or two of spinach.

How do you like to prep your lunch for the week?? What lunch do you usually get when you eat out??
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