Sunday prep day? NOT SO MUCH.
This week was allllll kinds of off because of the aforementioned food poisoning.
Luckily I had no room in my diet for produce until Tuesday…which is when I finally got to the grocery store to restock.
Heyooooo.
I spent a solid 45 minutes washing and cutting and storing – shredding kale, chopped carrots and celery, and roasting – before bolting off to school pickups. I am still super proud of squeezing in two stores in before doing all that jazz. I was h u s t l i n g big time. I even remembered to bring all my mason jars and produce bags with me. Turns out weighing the jars before adding the bulk bin items is super easy for the co-op to handle at the register so it’s definitely going to help me reach my goals of reducing plastic/waste without adding much more effort. In fact, it made things extra speedy once I got home because all I had to do was put them back in their spots on the pantry shelves. Score! This time I bought raw pecans, trail mix, wild rice, millet, and dates. But since I store all my nuts, seeds, grains, flours, dried fruit, etc in jars I think this is going to have a huge impact overall. I even ground our coffee right into the jars (obnoxiously, we have FOUR different coffees because we need drip and espresso in both caf and decaf). Anyway, for the first time in weeks I had a kale salad for lunch and it felt goooood to be reunited with ma best friend.
Hola amorcito.
The salad du jour featured kale, avo, roasted butternut squash, carrots, cilantro.
Aaaaand cashews and Nugget’s Thai Sesame Dressing.
It was heavenly and my body now feels almost 100% which is such a relief because I was going through vitamin withdrawals (not really, I’m just soooo dramatic) after that long without something green!
I’ll probably have this again for a few more lunches this week, or at least until the ripeness of avocados in the fruit bowl becomes the limiting factor. It’s a very vital ingred in this salad unless you swap in some meat or chickpeas. I think salmon would be pretty good, but chicken or shrimp are also perfectly good options.
If you don’t have a Nugget market near you, then try blending together your own version of the dressing with sesame oil, tamari, coconut sugar, miso paste, cilantro, and jalapeno.
In the interest of gut healing, check out this gorgeous copper pitcher that I just got.
You can check out the website (linked above) for more info but according to ancient Ayurvedic health principles, water stored in a copper jug (which is known as “tamra jal”) has numerous health benefits.
Shantiva makes their pieces with 100% pure high-grade food-safe copper and gently infuses water with copper, meaning you get all these awesome benefits just from going about your day and drinking water out of the pitcher!
You guys know I’m a science geek so here are some studies if you want. In addition to the anti-bacterial properties, copper helps the body cleanse itself of toxins and free radicals plus it’s naturally self-sterilizing! Pretty cool huh?
They just set up a discount for 15% off using the code HUNGRYHIPPIE15 which is good until November 16. 🙂 It would look pretty beautiful on your Thanksgiving table…just sayin’
