2024 the best salads review

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Canning jars are perfect for a healthy and delicious salad. The dressing goes on the bottom, with heavier or harder ingredients making up the next layer(s), perhaps topped off with some fresh leafy greens. Everything stays crisp and separate until it is time to toss the salad in a bowl ready to serve and enjoy.

When made ahead these 150 tempting and innovative recipes last for days in the fridge for almost a week's worth of lunches and/or dinners. These "grab and go" salads are ideal on those harried weekday mornings or busy weekends. Tanya Linton includes creative snacks and breakfasts as well as a chapter devoted to rice bowls and even desserts.

Lettuce-based salads like Italian Salad (chopped salami, spicy green beans, white beans and Pecorino), Green Goddess (sugar snap peas, proper peas and edamame with hoisin chicken) or Sweet and Salty Salad (arugula, figs, buffalo mozzarella and prosciutto) are great for the whole family.

For something more hearty, there are also noodle and grain/legume based salads like Pasta Carbonara Salad (pasta, cooked eggs, cooked pancetta, baby arugula), Chicken Soup Salad (noodles, carrots, celery, chopped kale and chicken) and Layered Tabbouleh Salad (couscous, cucumber, tomatoes, parsley, onion).

For a dessert idea for an office celebration or a picnic, Pretty Pavlovas, Layed Cheater Chocolate Cheesecake and Banana Bread Parfait are favorites.

From the Publisher

BREAKFAST BURRITO IN A JAR

This is my take on a breakfast burrito. It doesn’t have the wrap, but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t bring one with you. Or just eat it without. By the time you get to work, it will be at room temperature and ready to eat.

MOROCCAN COUSCOUS SALAD

I absolutely love couscous, yet I never make it. When I was developing recipes for this book, I thought, “There has to be a simple salad version of this meal.” Here’s what I came up with — if I say so myself, it’s pretty awesome.

CUTE AND CLEVER KEY LIME PIE

My favorite thing to do in a Florida airport is look at all the alligator paraphernalia and citrus products. A few years back, I got hooked on Key lime juice, and now I always pick up a bottle on my way home. It’s a bit more tart than Persian lime juice, but it’s perfect for tarts, fruit salads and marinades.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 077880528X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Robert Rose (March 21, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780778805281
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0778805281
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.88 x 10 inches
Reviewer: Carmelita Mary Salas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice book. Easy to read
Review: Arrived in a timely manner. Liked the way it was set up. Made several of the recipes (jars) & liked that the recipes are easy to substitute ingredients

Reviewer: Hunter80
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great recipes
Review: There were some really good recipes in this book. Unfortunately I'm on a very strict low sodium diet, so this was not very helpful for my needs.

Reviewer: Leslie S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mason Jars: More than Just Salads
Review: Quite some time ago I was introduced to salads in a jar or mason jar salads. I thought the idea was interested, saved some recipes, and didn't do much with it. Then a little over a year ago, I participated in a meal planning challenge and actually made some salads in a jar as well as overnight oats in a jar and some others items. While I enjoyed these items and had a few cookbooks on my kindle about mason jar salads, I was having difficulty being consistent about making them AND only had about two recipes I was using. Both recipes were very good but there were only two. So, instead of salads, my packed lunch usually involved leftovers from the night before, a frozen meal, or noodles in a cup.One day I spotted some interesting looking recipes that I saved to Pinterest. I noted the recipes were excerpted from the book 150 Beset Meals in a Jar: Salads, Soups, Rice Bowls, and More. My interest was piqued and like any self-respecting librarian, I headed to the library catalog to find a copy to borrow so I could "look before buying." I found my local public library had a copy so I quickly checked it out. I was delighted to find the book chock full of a variety of recipes that sounded intriguing and tasty. I immediately noted several that I wanted to try.As I studied the book to determine if I needed my own copy, on first impression I found that there was a wide variety of recipes that featured many different ingredients. I also enjoyed that while there were definitely salads, there were numerous other items included such as a lentil soup. At first, I was slightly disappointed that most of the recipes are for a single serving. My immediate reaction "Why would I want to make multiple different recipes where you need different ingredients?" and "I'll need to double the recipes to make this worth my while." Doubling or tripling recipes would be very easy in most instances and definitely would be one method of helping with the shopping list. However, as I studied the recipes more thoroughly, I found that the single serving sizes were useful as they would provide a variety to my lunches rather than the same salad multiple days in a row. I also found that I could locate 2-3 recipes that used similar ingredients and then use the one type of green for the bulk of my shopping list. For example, this week I picked three different salads that used arugula. One of the salads also called for pasta and I happened to have leftover pasta on hand. Having similar ingredients made shopping a breeze yet provided variety in my lunch and even my breakfast options.If you find you need to pack a lunch or that you want to begin packing a lunch for financial or health reasons, I highly recommend 150 Best Meals in a Jar. The variety of options which include both cold and hot meals allows you to take control over the ingredients in your lunch but reduced dependence on the cafeteria or vending machine and doesn't require eating last night's leftovers.

Reviewer: Cynthia Folchi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to use and favor is great
Review: Looking forward to making allot of the recipes in this book.

Reviewer: Sadie Bolding-Alverson
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Meals in a jar
Review: This is great for storage over night or for presentation. I was looking for meals in a jar that you can for long term mealsCanning…

Reviewer: DGW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great buy
Review: This is a great meals in jars recipe book. I've enjoyed making lunches and dinners on Sundays that I can eat for several days throughout the week. Well worth the purchase price and a good addition to any modern cook book library.

Reviewer: now I know better
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great buy!
Review: I was looking for meals I can pack for my diabetic husband to carry to work, where he is not allowed to use the (communal???) fridge to store his lunch. I can easily fit a mason jar and some freeze packs in his tote. This book has dozens of ideas for salads and other totables he can eat, and not just a table of x amount dressing on the bottom, then add y amount of hard veggies (select from table), top with z amount of soft veggies (again, select from table) and cover. It also includes about how long the recipes will hold in the fridge if packed according to their guidelines. I am really looking forward to using it. Only four stars because I don't yet know how many of the recipes will actually work.

Reviewer: Theresa Hurst
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Review: This was a great little book and came in handy for lunch ideas

Reviewer: nannon
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Really disappointed with lack of pictures and cheap paper. It's like it read created for an old kindle and printed as an afterthought

Reviewer: jem
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I expect most people will pick up a few tips from this book.