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The Amazing (Trim Healthy Mama (THM) friendly) Taco Jar Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

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Spending 12 days in Mexico was AMAZING but I seriously missed some of my favorite Trim Healthy Mama (THM) foods. Especially this amazing taco jar salad. I have a very hard time trying different jar salads because I could eat this one EVERY day!

Poppy Seed Dressing-The Secret Ingredient

 

THM Poppy Seed Dressing, Sugar Free and Low Glycemic

This poppy seed dressing is definitely the secret ingredient in this mouthwatering salad. My cousin made me my first salad with her mother-in-law’s dressing on it and I have never turned back!

I usually make this dressing in large portions so I can have it in my fridge all the time. I use my Tupperware Quick Shake container to store it so I can shake it up and just pour it out when I want to use it. This is also a great coleslaw dressing and goes amazing on so many salads!

Now for the full recipe!

Taco Jar Salad

 

1/4 cup poppy seed dressing

Large spoonful of salsa

1/4-1/2 cup taco seasoned ground beef (I do my ground beef in the crock pot just like I do my chicken. No liquid. Just put the beef in and let it go!  Next, I drain it and add my taco seasoning. You can do whatever seasoning is your favorite. I usually make my own.)

1/4 cup shredded cheese (I often leave this out because I try to eat little dairy)

Stuff full of shredded lettuce (or whatever your favorite lettuce is)

I cannot promote this salad anymore other than telling you it is AMAZING!  I could eat it EVERY SINGLE DAY! Sometimes I get sick of having it for lunch and have it for a snack instead! Hah! You will not be disappointed!

Printable Recipe

 

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Taco Jar Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

Ingredients

  • 1 Recipe Poppy Seed Dressing (1 cup mayo, 1/4 cup olive oil or MCT oil, 1/4 cup almond milk, 2 T Super sweet, 1 1/2 t apple cider vinegar, 1 T poppy seeds)
  • 1/4 cup dressing
  • 1 T Salsa (I don't really measure just one decent size scoop)
  • 1/4-1/2 cup Taco seasoned cooked ground beef
  • 1/4 cup Shredded Cheese Optional
  • Stuff full of lettuce

Instructions

  1. After you prep your dressing and brown your ground beef.  You can begin layering these into your jar in order.

  2. ENJOY!

Ten Minute Chicken

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What can be better than having your freezer stocked?  It’s even better when you can stock it by cooking one day week and doing it for less than an hour of your time!  This recipe brings great taste along with it being super easy and having quick prep.
I based this recipe off this Best Baked chicken recipe but tweaked it a little to fit my THM needs. Keep reading for my Trim Healthy Mama (THM) version and my creole seasoning recipe because I don’t keep that on hand.

TEN MINUTE CHICKEN

Ten minute chicken

8-10 Chicken tenderloins (any chicken that you like  will work, for my family tenderloins are easy and the right size)

Sauce:

1/4 cup monk fruit syrup (if you do not have this you could also use 1 1/2 T super sweet) or maple syrup (for non-THM friends)

2T Apple cider vinegar

1T ground mustard

1t  minced garlic

1/2 t salt

1/2 t pepper

1t creole seasoning (1t of each garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, cayenne pepper, 3t salt, 4t paprika, 5t Italian seasoning. This makes a larger batch but you only need 1t of it prepared).

Mix sauce together and pour over raw chicken!  That’s it’s!  Yup!  Freeze it (yes raw). When you are ready to cook thaw it and bake at 375 for 20-30 minutes.  Make sure to baste with sauce each time you check it. Enjoy!!

This recipe takes ten minutes to make one but it honestly does not take more than 15 minutes to make four pans of it. Make them up quick and you can be done cooking for the week!  Wondering how that can be true?

Check out my freezer meal theory here….

Join me again on Friday for the jar salad of the week. It’s my favorite one so you definitely do not want to miss it!

 

 

 

 

 

Delicious and Easy Pecan Chicken Jar Salad

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Another week, another jar salad! I’ve come to find that the more you spice it up and add different lettuces and ingredients the less bored with salads you will be! Here is a real winner that is very healthy…

This week I made a pecan and apple chicken jar salad.  The key is to keep the wet ingredients in the bottom and away from your lettuce. Some people suggest keeping the meat away from the dressing also but I feel like the dressing makes a marinade for the meat and I enjoy it soaked up in that!

To make this salad Trim Healthy Mama (THM) friendly I use the slim belly vinegarette from the cookbook but those of you that are not THM friends I have also used a raspberry vinegarette (Aldis brand works great).

First up you want to cook your chicken.  I like to do mine in my crock pot or air fryer but you can use whatever works best for you or even use canned. After my chicken is cooked I just layer in this order and stuff the jar FULL of lettuce!

Pecan Chicken Jar Salad

– Dressing

– 1/4 cup chicken

-2T chopped apple

– 2-3 strawberries chopped up

-2T pecans

-1 stalk of celery chopped

-Stuff full of lettuce

You may be wondering what kind of lettuce to use? Well, you can honestly use any kind.  My favorite is shredded (yes bagged) lettuce that I get from sams club or Gordon foods.  I realize many times this type of lettuce goes bad the next day after you open it but I have been making these salads every week for months and it definitely lasts a week.  I have also like iceberg lettuce ripped up, romaine ripped up, and spinach.  Really you can use whatever kind you love and you can mix more than one kind.

This salad is great and refreshing! For my THM friends if you use the slim belly vinegarette it can be a fuel pull because it does not have cheese for fat and the apple is very minimal!  If it’s not a complete fuel pull it would lean towards an E because of the apple. Bonus it’s delicious and filling too!  Do yourself a favor and get prepped for the week with this delicious salad!!