Thunder and lightning salad meal prep

Thunder and Lightning Salad Meal Prep

Yield: 6 salads for 2 people (12 total salads).

This will be 6 days worth of salads for 2 people, you can half it if you just want to do one person, or do more if you need more.

Ingredients

12 1L mason jars or large reusable containers
2 mixed green bins from Costco (454g) (you can use spring mix, spinach, etc)
2 bags of twin pack of sweet kale mix from Costco (2 x 397g), total is about 800g
2-3 cucumbers, chopped
6-8 tomatoes, diced
Shredded cheddar cheese (small handful for each salad) (or whatever kind you like)
Avocados (1 avocado per 4 salads)
Fresh herbs (dill, cilantro, mint, etc.)
Chopped and cooked chicken breasts with spices (we use one Costco package for the two of us for the week, it’s about 8 chicken breasts)
Salad dressing (homemade, either the balsamic or Italian)

Olive Oil and Balsamic Dressing:

We make ours in a protein shaker bottle
Fill the bottle about ⅓ full with olive oil, then fill the rest with balsamic vinegar
Add spices to taste (we use dry mustard, oregano, salt, pepper)

Italian Dressing

½ cup white wine vinegar
½ cup Dijon mustard
1-2 teaspoons maple syrup
3 small garlic cloves, grated (about 3/4 teaspoon) or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoon each dried oregano, dried thyme, and dried basil
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup olive oil

Chicken:

Take about 8 chicken breasts and chop them up as small as you like
Cook the chicken with a bit of olive oil in a big wok, with whatever spices you like (we use a combination of cajun, chilli powder, oregano, garlic powder, and salt)
Store this in the fridge for a week in order to use with your salads all week (or portion it out into about 1 cup containers)

Instructions:

Arrange your salad containers in a row (do sections of 6 if you are doing 12 total)
Chop your cucumbers and use half a cucumber for every 2 jars/containers
Chop your tomatoes, use 1 per salad
Put your dressing in at the bottom (use the balsamic or Italian recipe)
Take 1 of the 4 bags of slaw and portion it evenly between 3 containers, repeat until you are done all 12
Add a handful of shredded cheese on top
Take one of the mixed green bins and portion that evenly between 6 containers, repeat for the other bin/6 containers
Use put ¼ of an avocado in each salad, add as they ripen through the week
Add in whatever fresh herbs you’d like
Portion your chicken into containers so you can heat it up before adding to your salad each day (we do about a cup per salad)
We dump our salad jar into a family sized bowl, mix it up, and add the heated chicken on top before eating