Organic Dressing Recipes

Salad Matrix Recipes – Dabbing Into the Greens

Perhaps some of you would say that gone are the days of darker green leaves only drizzled with a simple vinaigrette. It’s true that today’s markets have a wide variety of delicious salads, but if you’re after the real essence of eating salad, old-fashioned salad recipes are still the most ideal way why salads exist. To bring back this essence, salad matrix was born.

It is an approach to encourage darker-colored greens and more organic components in light dressing to guarantee high amounts of proteins, calcium, vitamins, digestive enzymes and antioxidants. We may find it hard to adapt, but low in fat salads are the only way to change our eating lifestyle for the better. It’s simply dabbing in the raw and nourish in a bowl of greens. Here are sample salad matrix recipes to try:

Simple Orange, Avocado and Spinach Salad

Ingredients

• 1 orange
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• a dash of sea salt
• 2 cups baby spinach
• 1 avocado, sliced
• Black pepper

Directions

With a good kitchen knife, section the orange and cut off the skin from the sections. Reserve all extra juice is a small bowl then whisk together with olive oil, lime juice and sea salt. This will make the light dressing. In a medium serving bowl, combine the sectioned orange, spinach and sliced avocado and pour the dressing over top. Gently toss. Sprinkle with black pepper to season. Serve chilled.

Detox Kale Salad with Apples and Cherries

Ingredients

• 1 bunch kale, stalks removed and leaves thinly sliced
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
• Celtic sea salt
• 2 teaspoons of raw honey
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup diced apple, with skin
• 2 tablespoonfuls of small handful raw pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
• 1 tablespoon of dried unsweetened, organic cherries or raisins

Directions

In large bowl, combine the kale, half of lemon juice, a drizzle of oil and kosher salt. Work until the kale starts to soften and wilt. Massaging for 2 to 3 minutes will soften leaves that are tough. To make the dressing, whisk remaining lemon juice with the honey and black pepper. While whisking, stream in the 1/4 cup of oil until a dressing forms then season with salt and pepper.

Pour the dressing over the kale then add the apple, cherries and pepitas. Toss. You may serve your light salad straight away or chill prior to serving.

Do you include salad as a veggie on the HCG diet? How much did you lose? HELP!!?

It seems that no matter how many times I read Pounds and Inches, or read info on the internet I can never seem to find how much lettuce you can really eat on the HCG diet. Some sites are saying you can eat a salad with vinegar dressing (or one of the HCG made dressings) in ADDITION to your protien and veggie, and others are saying you would count the salad AS your veggie. Another thing REALLY how much are you supposed to eat. I am on day 1 of the VLCD and I did GREAT today, BUT I wasn’t sure how much broccoli to measure out so I ate a 1/2 cup of fresh raw organic broccoli with my seasoned chicken. Could I have eaten a salad with it (not that I really needed it, but just for future reference) and also am I allowed to have more broccoli than that. Fruits and meats seem to be very easy to follow but the veggies confuse me a bit. LOL! Also do any of you have some recipe ideas? How much did you lose…how long did you go for? WHEW!! Sorry for all the questions…THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!

Add up the calories from the meat and your snacks for the day and you can use your remaining calories for vegetables at meals. You can use this site to see approximately how many calories your vegetables are. http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/. There are probably better web sites for this. From what I’ve heard you don’t want to mix your vegetables at meals so I don’t think salads are the best. Just eat one vegetable at a meal. I am 26 and went from 225 to 207 in the last 13 days. One thing to try for a drink is lemon juice water and stevia. Makes tasty lemonade. Stevia is a sweetener that is aloud on the diet in case you didn’t know. Good luck!

Organic Garlic Salad Dressing Recipe by Luci Lock

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