Salad

baby spinach leaves

sliced pear

feta cheese

sprinkle of pecans

pinch of salt

a few cranks of black pepper

little drizzle of olive oil

smatterings of balsamic vinegar

Almost no cutting, just assembling. Delicious, healthy, fast.

Salad Soapbox:

At a restaurant you may have found yourself thinking while ordering, "let's not go crazy and just get a salad." Beware, not all salads are created equal. Be careful of the drive-through ones, or the ones at steak houses. Just because it's a salad, doesn't mean it's good for you.

Iceberg lettuce - the fourth phase of water. It does have fiber in it, but that's all.

If your salad is comprised of iceberg (romaine is a little bit better, but spinach is the only one that can be counted as doing something really good for you) lettuce, cheese, chicken, croutons, cucumber, and a tomato, you may as well get a chicken sandwich and be satisfied.

In my book a salad must have some of the following to be counted as a healthful choice:

broccoli (my favorite vegetable)

carrots

onions - green or red are my favorite

nuts

oranges

beans

olives

peppers - Sam's has them for sale 6 red,yellow, orange peppers for $7. Wow.

avocado - has three times as many nutrients as most other high nutrient vegetables

RIPE tomatoes - I have a theory I haven't looked into, that unripe tomatoes don't have near as many nutrients and that's why they don't taste like anything, cause they don't have anything.

So when I go to the drive through I skip the salad, get a burger and really enjoy it. And get my veggies at home.

And fries don't count as veggies, though I have tried to convince myself that if I put on enough ketchup, maybe the combo will count?

No it doesn't count.