There’s definitely an art to building the perfect mason jar salad.
I remember my first time … and it was disastrous!
I took the time to chop up all my ingredients, tossed them all in the mason jar, added in some lettuce and dressing, shook it up, and placed it in the fridge for the next day.
You know what happened next, don’t you?
I was left with a soggy, disgusting, non-edible, mess of a salad – a total Pinterest fail.
Maybe you’ve experienced it too. It’s frustrating to think you wasted all that time and money on ingredients, and now have to leave the house in a panic with no lunch in hand.
Talk about a bad start to your day.
But, what if I told you that it really is as simple as pinterest makes it look? Imagine …
- Prepping all your lunches for the week in less than 20 minutes
- Sleeping in an extra 20 minutes cuz lunch is in the bag! (<– see what I did there?)
- Tossing a healthy meal in your kids lunch that they won’t complain about
- All your co-workers drooling over your healthy lunch, instead of you drooling over their pizza. In your face, cravings!
- Never getting bored of your salad … ever again
I’ve made it sound too tempting not to try, eh?
And on the plus side – variety will easily become your new norm. I mean, check out just a few of my family’s favourite variations of the mason jar salad:
- Quinoa taco salad
- Chicken caesar salad
- Mediterranean bean salad
- Burger salad
- Sushi salad
- Pesto salmon salad
- Chef’s salad
- Southwestern salad
- Thai salad
- Citrus shrimp salad
The options are endless and proves that variety really is the spice of life!
But more importantly – you need to know how to layer the salads correctly if you want to avoid a soggy, nasty mess.
This handy dandy graphic should help …
So, now that you know the art of making a perfect mason jar salad, it’s time to try making one of the recipes above!
