Quick Italian Salad

This Italian salad is one of our favorite dinners! We've started making it once a week with garlic bread and it's so delicious. I'm about to put up a blog post with the ingredients list! Link in profile. #salad #dinner #healthy #healthyeating #delicious #fresh #italian #italiansalad

A photo posted by Gloria Aitken (@gloriaaitken) on Apr 17, 2016 at 9:08am PDT

We love this "Italian" salad! It is absolutely on of our favorite meals and it is so easy to put together.
I feel like salads don't really need recipes, just a list of ingredients that you put together according to what you like the most and how many you are serving. So, here is what we throw into ours!

My addition that isn't exactly in the norm, is fried onion straws. In my house, we aren't a huge fan of raw onions. So, I replace what would normally be diced red onions, with the fried variety. I really like it because it adds a nice crunch to the salad and they are so yummy anyway! 

Quick Italian Salad

• Italian Salad Mix, Romaine and Radicchio
• Tomato, diced
• Cucumber, diced
• Kalamata  Olives, sliced
• Delicatessen Style Peperoncini or Banana Peppers, diced
• Crumbled Feta Cheese
• Fried Onions Strings
• Fat Free Italian Dressing
• Salt and Pepper, to taste

Mix it all together and eat up! I usually make garlic bread, with whatever bread we have lying around, to make this more of a meal. And, Jeremy loves having the bread for sure! I think it makes up for not having meat in the salad. If you want to add meat, we have done this with grilled chicken or even diced salami and pepperoni! 

My Recipes

 I won't even begin to claim that I have original ideas when it comes to food. I am not chef or a foodie. I'm a housewife. I browse Pinterest (Follow me here!) for ideas just like everyone else.

I often find some recipe with an ingredient list a mile long and alter it to fit what I have on hand or what is cheapest. That is what I will be posting here. My versions of recipes I have collected all over the place. Whenever it is possible,  I will give credit where credit is due. 

It's hard to find time to cook. I have a baby that constantly wants her mama. Her mama is tired. She needs a shower more than a meal. It seems like fast food is a great option, right? We fell into that habit right after she was born and our waistlines have paid for it. I'm trying my best to get us back on track, to go to the farmer's market every Sunday to pick up the produce for the week, to avoid the inner isles at the grocery store, to just be healthier. 

We are in a transitional period. We still have boxes of processed foods that I'm trying to use up.  I don't want to be wasteful and throw them out. It's hard to do, very hard. I don't even know if we will succeed, but that won't stop me from trying! 

I hope you all enjoy my food. I know that I have had people asking for recipes for awhile and this seemed like the most efficient way to get them out there. 

-Gloria