To kick start the healthy aspect of this blog, I've decided to begin with 5 Days of Grain Salads. Yup, you read correctly, five consecutive days of only salads. No, not those leafy green ones. I'm not much of a raw leafy green kind of person, though I do like to gnaw on a carrot stick once in a while. Instead, these are
grain salads. Not plain 'ol grains like pasta and white rice, but supposedly "healthy" grains like quinoa and couscous.
So, today is day 1 of 5 days of grain salads, and the first salad is a quinoa salad with edamame, carrots, split peas, and chickpeas a.k.a a rainbow salad! Just letting you guys know, I love to incorporate beans into my grain salads, especially edamame (which will probably show up in every salad). Enjoy!
Mmmm....grain salads are yummy and this looks really good!
ReplyDelete5 days of grains? You go girl! This one looks fabulous! But then again, I absolutely love the combination of quinoa and edamame!
ReplyDeleteI've never had quinoa, but you make me want to try it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun challenge! Good on you!
ReplyDeleteI recently had quionoa in one of my salads and looooved it. Will be doing it again, foh sure!
This looks super good! Wait no more brownies and cookies?! Oooh you should try the quinoa cookies- best of both worlds!
ReplyDeleteCouscous is not a grain. It is more like pasta. It is closer to little pellets of flour and water.
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