Out with the old, in with the new

My latest quinoa salad was fantastic, and the best part was that it yielded way more than I expected!

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What’s a girl to do? 

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This was an everything but the kitchen sink everything in the fridge kind of salad…including a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book. 

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It had leftover broccoli, leftover sweet potatoes, leftover quinoa, and a new product too!

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Quorn Naked Chik’n Cultets do have trace amounts of egg whites, so they aren’t vegan.  But I had never seen them before and they were on sale, so why the heck not?

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Here they are in all their frozen glory.

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And here they are after a few minutes in the micro.  They are easy peasy, I’ll give them that!  It may even outweigh the laundry list of ingredients.

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I then added the diced chik’n to the top of the salad beast (seen above).

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If you thought I was exaggerating about the salad’s contents, think again:

  • spinach
  • mixed lettuce
  • steamed sweet potatoes
  • steamed broccoli
  • raw sweet peas
  • avocado
  • leftover quinoa
  • Quorn chik’n

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Eaten outside with the sunshine beating down on me.  Pure bliss.

It was so good in fact, that later that night I had the rest of the quinoa for dinner. 

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I know, I know, you’re probably rolling your eyes going AGAIN!?!  Lately I’ve been pretty good about avoiding food ruts, but when I find a good thing, some times it’s hard to deny myself. 

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Even if it is something as contradictory as fake chik’n and a wholesome clean quinoa dish.

Now the leftovers are all gone :(  Please sir, can I have some more!?

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  1. Diana

    I love everything salads! Eat them all the time 🙂 Yours looks so colorful!

  2. ksgoodeats

    All of the cool kids get into food ruts 😉

    That quinoa salad is so colorful I’d gladly get in it’s rut!

  3. *Andrea*

    Thank you, sir! May I have another?
    love animal house haha

    i get in food ruts for lack of a better word when all i wanna do is eat the same thing for like a week. i actually love those quorn cutlets but the ingredient list is kinda wacky

  4. Angharad

    I know what you mean about hitting a good thing and not being able to leave it the heck alone. I do that too. All the time. But if I find something I love it’s so hard not to eat it all the time!

    Quinoa…I have a stack of quinoa salad recipes in my head that I need to unearth.

  5. MarathonVal

    Haha, at least you are in a quinoa rut… I’m in a raw vegan brownie rut over here… could be worse 😉

  6. julie

    i guess we’re both in food ruts because my dinner was so good last night i did it again tonight.

    i’m fine with food ruts hahah

  7. BroccoliHut

    Those Quorn cutlets are pretty convenient–I like to use them for a faux chicken salad with grapes, walnuts, & vegan mayo.

  8. elise

    Yum. That sounds great!

  9. indiechic927

    This sounds delish! I’m glad I found your blog. Definitely a good day for blog surfing. 🙂

  10. elise

    Awww, thanks! It’s a great dish, so I’m glad you found me too 🙂

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