Mama's "Garden Salads"

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Monday, 4/1/14 -

Organic cucumbers w/salt, organic tomatoes and mini sweet peppers; organic salad w/ lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, tomatoes, carrots, Chioggia beets, raisins, sunflower seeds, hemp hearts, raspberry vinaigrette; macaroons, PB and yogurt veggie dip

 

The chopped sugar snap peas and carrot and beet flowers (cut with flower veggie cutters) were rejects that came home from Z's Something On-A-Stick Day lunch.
The tomatoes were a little wrinkly, so I had to use them up quick! And that hunk of cauliflower was actually a tiny head of cauliflower from my weekly organic CSA farm share. So cute! (In fact, most of my veggies come from my farm share. I bought the organic cucumber, tomatoes, and sweet peppers from the grocery for this lunch, but for most of my lunches, all the fruits and veggies are from the farm.)

The dip in the Mini Dipper was something I'd read about; mixing peanut butter with yogurt. I opted for Greek honey yogurt, since that's what I had. It was pretty good. I did roughly a 1:1 ratio. The macaroons were from a local company, and sold at our CSA farm. Not as tasty (or as pleasant a texture) as the Hail Merry ones, and way more expensive!

Tuesday, 4/2/13 -

Organic blood orange, pistachios, GF frosted gingerbread cookie pieces; organic salad w/ lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, Chioggia beets, raisins, sunflower seeds, hemp hearts, raspberry vinaigrette

 

Just a hodge-podge salad of stuff to use up (I only get berries if they came back from someone's lunch the day before, or if they're getting wrinkly. And, well, cauliflower. Always needs to get used up, right?)

The cookie pieces were broken off of a much larger cookie from a gluten-free bakery. It's gingerbread. With frosting. Hellooooo!

Thursday, 4/4/13 -

Dark chocolate mints, organic blood orange, organic cucumber and carrot sticks, Wholly Guacamole pack, Chobani Bite yogurt; organic salad w/ lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, Chioggia and golden beets, raisins, sunflower seeds, hemp hearts, raspberry vinaigrette

Z ended up staying home sick from school that day, (why is she always sick when I make her a Hello Kitty lunch?!) which meant that instead of getting to eat lunch in the car while Baby napped in the back after dropping Z off at her afternoon preschool, I had to try and eat as much as I could until she got bored sitting next to her sister to eat and came over to check out what I had on offer.

I managed to hide the silicone muffin cup of mints, but she ate my blood orange, a bunch of my salad, and most of my guacamole and yogurt. *sigh*

As you can see, my lunch was quite tasty. What little of it I was allowed to eat...

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