To start off, I had my darling baby girl, Mila! She is a-dor-a-ble and I love her and I call her Pookie Bear! She and Lydia have kept my life hectic. I had Pookie Bear the end of last year, but I still feel like a zombie. On top of that I was and currently still am trying to get myself back into shape and it's not so easy. I know some moms bounce back well and fast. I am not one of them. Haha. I've been trying to exercise, but time is not always on my side so I decided to work on my diet. I've cut out rice for the past few months now (not completely as I have had some rice here and there) and try to get more fruits and veggies in. So far, I've lost 13 lbs give or take some. My wish is to lose another 20 lbs. Must. Find. Will. Power.
With that said I decided on trying out the whole "mason jar salads" because I was finding that cooking every night to ensure that I had something to eat for lunch every day was too time consuming and tiresome. I would end up eating junk or anything laying around because it was easier to grab that and shove it down rather than take the time to prepare something healthy and listen to my stomach growl. I do have the option to buy a salad at work to eat, but it was costing me $4 for a salad. In a month I'd be spending at least $80 alone on just a lunch salad! Crazy, I am not that rich.
So I bought all my foods and mason jars and prepped everything on Sunday. I decided to make a simple salad and only do 5 jars to see how things would go in case it was a total disaster.
I must say it's gone well. Pros are that I just grab and go in the mornings and do not have to worry about what to pack for the next so that means more time to lounge with the girls (yea...I wish). The salads have stayed fresh and I do stay committed to eating the salads every day for lunch because I don't want to waste my food/money. It does save me a ton of money because I think in total I must have only spent $8-$10 for the ingredients not including the purchase of the jars. The only con I have so far is that after the 3rd day of the same kind of salad for lunch it's not so 'Yay salad!' anymore. It does it's job of providing me nutrients and making me full, but I'll probably have to make more than one kind of salad to switch it up! Other than that I will probably continue to do this.
I did do some research just to get an idea of how to layer the salad in the jar and I think everyone has their own preferences on ingredients so I just used the foods and dressing I liked and didn't follow a recipe or anything. If I come up with an awesome salad that works well in these mason jars, I'll do another post on it, but for now.....try it out for yourself!! Num num!
