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Oriental Chicken Jar Salad- Just like Applebees only healthier! THM S

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If you eat at Applebees there is one thing on the menu pretty much EVERYONE has tried.  It’s the Oriental Chicken Salad. If you haven’t had the salad you’ve had the wrap and when you order this you probably think you are making a pretty healthy choice.

Well, let’s just leave it at that thought of healthy and tell you that I have recreated this Applebee’s favorite in a Trim Healthy Mama (THM) Jar Salad form!

Of course, the BEST part of the Oriental Chicken Salad is the DRESSING!  I used to work at Applebees and let me tell you I learned to always bring an extra dressing with that salad because EVERYONE always wanted more! Look no more I’ve tweaked a dressing to be THM friendly and taste like that fabulous sugar LOADED dressing.  Oh, wait I forgot we aren’t talking about that.

Oriental Chicken Jar Salad

Oriental Chicken Jar Salad. Just like the Applebees Favorite

Jar Salads have been such a lifesaver for me when it comes to eating healthy.  I usually make them up on Thursdays and I’m good to go for the week.

To make up this wonderful Oriental Chicken Jar Salad you start by making up a batch of the dressing.  Then begin layering the ingredients into the jar.  Start with the dressing, then the chicken (the chicken gets marinaded in the dressing), Sunflower seeds, almonds, coleslaw mix, and finally stuff full of shredded lettuce.

If you need some tips and tricks on making jar salads you can find some great tips here and you will love the help.  These are so easy and fabulous to have on hand for busy lunchtime choices.

Printable Dressing Recipe

Oriental Chicken Jar Salad. Just like the Applebees Favorite
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Oriental Jar Salad DRESSING

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups Mayonaise
  • 1/3 Cup Rice Wine Vinegar
  • 1 t Sesame Oil
  • 2 T Grey Poupon Mustard I've also used regular mustard
  • 2 T Super Sweet If you aren't following THM you can use 2T Honey

Instructions

  1. Mix it all together and get ready to fall in love!

Printable Oriental Chicken Jar Salad Recipe

Oriental Chicken Jar Salad. Just like the Applebees Favorite
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Oriental Chicken Jar Salad

Ingredients

  • 1/4 Cup Oriental Salad dressing
  • 1 Chicken Breast cooked and cut into bite size pieces
  • 2 T Sesame Seeds
  • 2 T Almonds chopped
  • 1 Cup Coleslaw mix
  • Shredded Lettuce Or any lettuce of your choice

Instructions

  1. Fill your mason jar with 1/4 cup Oriental Salad dressing.

  2. Dump in the cooked and cut up chicken, Seeds, and Chopped Almonds.

  3. Fill the jar with about 1 cup of coleslaw mix.

  4. Continue stuffing the jar very full of shredded lettuce or whatever your favorite lettuce is.

This will NOT disappoint

I promise this salad will not be disappointing.  Last week I ate them so fast and wished I had made more than I did.  Run RUN to the store and get these ingredients it’s so worth it.  If you are following the THM eating plan this salad is a THM S meal. The Oriental Jar Salad is big and filling and it will quickly need to be added to my Top 10 Favorites.  I can’t believe it took me this long to figure out this fabulous transformation.

Thanks again for joining me today and keep it up!  You can do it!!

 

Easy Tips for the Tasty Lazy Chicken Alfredo Lasagna

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It’s no lie I’m loving this new cookbook I have called Trim Healthy Table.  It’s full of healthy great Family friendly recipes and I couldn’t be happier with.  I love when I can feed my family good food and it’s even better when they have no idea it’s so good for them.

Tasty Lazy Chicken Alfredo Lasagna

Chicken Alfredo Lazy Lasagna

Another thing I always want to share with you is the easiest and fastest way to make up a recipe.  Sometimes I can get overwhelmed by a recipe when I look at all the directions.  Then I think about all the mess and time and before you know it I’ve worried more than the time it would have taken me to make the whole meal!

Again don’t stop reading if you don’t have the cookbook here is a similar recipe you can print off from home!

Putting that aside I want to share some tips for this recipe that can be found in the Trim Healthy Table Cookbook on page 124.  Otherwise known as just Lazy Chicken Lasagna but I think it tastes like alfredo.  Here are a few tips to make this recipe go fast so makeup four and be done with your cooking for the week!

  1.  The first thing I did was cook the chicken in my crockpot.  I throw this in there in the morning with a little water and when I get back from the gym and put the kids down for naps, it’s all ready for me.  It’s also so juicy and easy to work with.
  2. I chopped up the celery pretty thin in my food processor and then added it to the butter.  After that was done I didn’t add the chicken to that mix I just started layering it in my pans.
  3. The last thing I did to make this easier is use fresh spinach.  There is not thawing and more importantly no squeezing for 800 days.  Just laying it on there fresh and you are good to go!

Enjoy

Well, that’s a wrap on another week of stocking your freezer!  How is your freezer looking?  Are you regularly filling it? Have you found anything that didn’t work in the freezer?  Share it with us!  As always thanks again for joining me and I hope you have the Best Week Ever!

 

Avocado Chicken Jar Salad- THM S

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It’s that time.  Time for a new Jar Salad to try!  I found this recipe on Pinterest and just had to try it as a jar salad. It’s so tasty and good.  Of course, I made this up for the week and enjoyed every bit of them!  If you are just starting with jar salads you may want to check out my mason jar salad tips and tricks.

Avocado Chicken Jar Salad

Avocado Chicken Jar Salad

I’ve suddenly grown to like avocados so this was a recipe I just had to try.  It’s also a lot easier to hide avocado in salads and get people to eat it.  My evil plan is working!

I used this recipe and layered the jars in this order.

  1. Make up your dressing and put 1/4 cup into the bottom of the jar.
  2. Dill
  3. Chives
  4. Corn
  5. Hard-boiled eggs
  6. Avocado
  7. Bacon
  8. Chicken
  9. Stuff it full of lettuce

Yes, I said stuff it full.  No matter what people tell you mason jar salads are not made for you to shake and eat out of the jar.  Stuffing it full with the lettuce keeps it fresh and you need it stuffed full.  Need more tips and tricks for mason jar salads check them out here.

That’s a wrap

Thanks again for joining me here today!  Hope you enjoy this salad and take it to some parties with you over the next few weeks.  Being prepped and ready helps so much during this season.  It’s easy to say no to other goodies when you bring an option you can enjoy and stay on plan with!  You can do it mama’s!