Week of March18th

I can't say last week was a total success, but I made it through. Here is what happened:

1.  Green Salad with Dried Figs and Nuts I needed to do my taxes (yup, it is that time of the year), so my lunch hour was spent at the accontants office. I ended up  having granola and soy milk for lunch. To keep up with a salad every day, I added a melon salad from Cafe Depot.
2. Chopped Greek Salad with Chicken  I did not have time to prepare the ingredients so  I got one from Kojax again.
3. Blueberry Walnut Salad  (with chicken thigh)
4. Zee`s Eggplant Salad Replaced with green blueberry salad. A mixture of greens with blueberry and feta cheese.
5. Quinoa Salad with Dried Cranberries and Apricots (with chicken thigh) Replaced the dried cranberries and apricots with raspberries. It was my favorite dish of the week.

Last week I saw one of my colleagues having wild rice. I had never seen it before, I tasted it and it seemed good to me. I got some this week and one of the salads for next week is going to be wild rice based. We will see. 

Here is the plan for the next week:

1. Wild Rice Salad
2. Persian Cucumber Yogurt (Mast-o-Khiar)
3. Quinoa Tabouleh
4. Mango Blueberry Quinoa Salad

It is a four day plan because it is Persian new year on Wednesday, and I am going to my friend's place on Tuesday night. Knowing myself, I would be super lazy to prepare something for the day after. So I decided to go with four salads this week. 

Happy new year everyone! (I know nobody reads here yet, but still it seems rude not to say happy new year).

Week of March 11th

Here is what happened last week:

1. Quinoa Salad with Pomegranates This turned out to be super yummy!
2. Spinach Salad
3. Mushroom Salad  This was my least favorite of all.
4. Beetroot Salad  The beetroots turned out to be bitter. I replaced them with feta cheese and olives.
5. Mango Salad with Green Peppers I forgot to bring my lunch bag to work, instead I ended up having Greek Chicken Salad from Kojax.

Also as a general note, I guess I was missing enough protein in the salads. Everyday, I  ended up being hungry at around 3:30 to 4. I try to add more protein to this week Salads.

1.  Green Salad with Dried Figs and Nuts (adding pine nuts)
2. Chopped Greek Salad with Chicken
3. Blueberry Walnut Salad  (adding chicken breast)
4. Zee`s Eggplant Salad
5. Quinoa Salad with Dried Cranberries and Apricots

We will see what happens! 

Week of March 4th

1. Quinoa Salad with Pomegranates
2. Spinach Salad
3. Mushroom Salad
4. Beetroot Salad
5. Mango Salad with Green Peppers

Maybe an intro?

This blog is supposed to help me keep my promise to eat healthier. It is not easy to overcome the temptations at lunch time if you have not planned ahead. I will see if this blog can be of any help. The first month goal is to have 'salad' for lunch. I will come up with salad ideas/receipes for 5 days every Sunday. I will post these recipes to keep track of them. So let's start!