vegetarian

If you’ve been anywhere in the vicinity of this blog the past few weeks then you know I am on a health kick. We’ve been eating a lot of salads in the W household of late, which is awesome for me since it’s literally one of my favorite foods. And somehow, I’ve managed to get B on the salad-loving bandwagon too (snaps for me!).

Now that I track my calories, I have learned just how much salad you can eat! Did you know that a whole cucumber has only about 30 calories?! Let’s just say you get a lot of bang for your buck. You can, however, blow the whole deal in a hot second with the wrong salad dressing (I’m looking at you Buttermilk Ranch).

I’ve started making my own dressing to ensure that I know exactly what’s going into it and how many calories it contains. One of the worst things you can do is get some artificial-chemical-filled-low-fat-BS-dressing. This is basically empty calories that have no nutritional value (would you hook yourself up to an IV of weirdly named chemicals? No, so stay away from artificially altered fat-free foods).

Here’s what I do…

Lately I’ve been adding black bean burgers to my salad, so my dressing has a bit of a Latin twist…

{Start with an extra virgin olive oil base, measure out one tablespoon into a small glass bowl}