Italian Green Bean Salad is a great way to enjoy fresh green beans from your garden or serve as a healthy side dish at any cookout or BBQ!
Just by adding a few simple fresh ingredients brings the ordinary green bean to a new yummy level! Cucumbers. tomatoes, fresh herbs, a little cheese and a perfect Italian dressing makes this a recipe everyone will enjoy!
You could of course eliminate the cheese, but the nice chunks of cheese here give the salad a good bite and texture without adding any meat making this a hearty salad.
Under 100 calories per cup, make this a great choice for anyone watching their weight!
Even when the weather is chilly, munching on a crunchy, full of flavor, healthy salad reminds you of warmer days, spring gardens, fresh vegetables, farmers markets and all things alive and beautiful.
Every salad has a chance to overcome being boring and turn into amazing, it's just all in the combination of your choices. Many times though life gets in the way of being creative. Time is of the essence and often just some lettuce, tomato and cucumbers might be all you enjoy in your salad for lack of time.
But for me, it's not only what's in it, but how you pack it up to take on the run with you that gets my creativity flowing and my desire to eat these creations!
Mason jars salads are that chance to break from the typical boring salad and get busy building a salad everyone will drool over in the lunchroom!
My motto is make it once enjoy it many times! I want the biggest bang for my buck when I'm taking time to make a salad. I want several meals from it so I don't have to get in the kitchen every day to have a healthy lunch. I've got 3 kiddies and a hungry hubby who rely on me for a healthy dinner and breakfasts so lunch is kind of the last thing to get done on my To Do list if you know what I mean.
This is my take on a Waldorf Salad.
Many Waldorf Salads include dried fruit like raisins and maybe some grapes as well as a mayonnaise dressing. When I looked over some nutritional information on other typical Waldorf salads I was surprised that mine was not lower in sugar or fat, but then I realized something. The serving size for every typical Waldorf salad I googled was the smallest serving ever! About ½ cup was what I discovered. Who in their right mind would ever be full on eating a ½ cup of salad for lunch?
This salad is a filling and appropriate sized salad for a lunch meal. Sure you could make this as a side salad and serve it all in one bowl if you like. Just decrease all the nutritional information by half and you have half a serving of what you see here to serve aside a meal.
I served this salad as one large salad and tossed it all together to serve on New Year's Day with my Crock Pot BBQ baby Back Ribs. Everyone loved the tangy dressing and thought it was the best side with the ribs, cool and refreshing.
