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The most delicious salad (esp for ppl who hate salad!):

https://smittenkitchen.com/2012/06/chopped-salad-with-feta-lime-and-mint/

Caprese salad!! Tear up chunks of buffalo mozzarella, toss with halved grape tomatoes, basil leaves, salt, pepper, EVOO and balsamic. Serve with toasted bread. Soooooo good.

I love cubed watermelon, chopped mint, and lime juice. The mint makes it seem fancy, haha.

Tonight we had soba bowls with sautéed Chinese chives (these I think are sometimes called garlic chives or buchu in Korean), sautéed mushrooms, shaved carrot, and edamame. I dress it with soy sauce and sesame oil. We tend to eat this cold. Sometimes with hot rice instead of noodles. Alternatively I’ll add: julienned bell peppers, green onion, raw tofu, kimchi, garbanzo beans, whatever I have. This is a staple in our house. For more fiber I add quinoa or lentils to the rice.

Someone posted on here awhile ago a recipe for some kind of chicken bowl with a yogurt sauce. And so I do a variant of that where I make a yogurt sauce with paprika, cumin, raw garlic. And put it on garbanzo beans, cucumber, tomato, and maybe mint or parsley or dill if I have any. Sometimes I’ll put this on salad greens for me and DH and the kids will eat it without the yogurt sauce. This is also super good in a pita or a wrap.

Roasted/grilled veggie wraps: this tends to be hit or miss with my kids. They hate salad greens and bell peppers so I tend to give them other leftovers when we eat this. But they are obsessed with mushrooms.

Grilled/roasted mushroom “pizzas”. My kids love mushrooms so I take mushrooms and just add pizza sauce and cheese and my kids think it’s amazing. Also, sometimes I’ll take leftover Mexican rice or rice and beans and do stuffed mushrooms. But that’s not the most summery dish.

Also: I take almost any leftover that’s grain-based and put it on salad greens for lunch the next day. This includes almost any kind of rice and beans, but that may just be a weird thing I do.

I love a cheese plate! Crackers. Cheese. Tons of veggie sticks (carrots, bell peppers, cucumber) and in season berries. No cook and everyone eats!

@Mrs. Sunshine: yes! I love that idea. One of my main things is to turn a side into a meal by adding a fancy loaf of bread. I actually love just eating hummus and/or mushy peas (it’s a British thing I think, it’s just frozen peas, butter, mint all mashed together) and eating it on one of those fancy hearty wheaty loaves of bread covered in nuts. Pair it with some fruit and it’s a super quick easy dinner.

And then all the beans and rice you can eat. It seems simple but if you vary the spices and vegetables and types of rice it can be super satisfying.

Oh! And if you add a potato to basically any puréed veg soup it instantly is creamier.

And I love making lentil tacos (just use lentils instead of beef). I add a couple drops of liquid smoke, Worcestershire, and tomato paste and it really makes it super good and meaty.

My father died at 59 from obesity related heart issues so I’m very much on the veggie/plant based train now. I still eat meat I just don’t cook it anymore.

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My kids don't eat this, it has a bit of a kick plus it's way too much green for them...but it's one of my favorite meals for the summer

http://www.bakeyourday.net/buffalo-chicken-salad-with-parmesan-dill-vinaigrette/

Following! Especially looking for the plant-based recipes since we're in grill season and it's way too easy to just get a ton of marinated meat every week... But I do love this recipe for when you're looking to throw something on a grill with a really good salad: https://www.fitmittenkitchen.com/grilled-blackberry-balsamic-chicken-salad/

Just made these on Friday, so so good. The grill makes the bread crispy on the outside.
http://www.3scoopsofsugar.com/ham-turkey-grilled-french-bread-sandwiches/