How do you make healthy choices when there are so many other tempting options around? Make it the easiest option – that’s how!
Why a Salad in a Jar?
By bulk-making salads for the week in mason jars or similar, you are cutting down the amount of prep work and, more importantly, making healthy lunch choices. The attraction of making salads in jars is the way that they can be smartly layered to keep your ingredients perfectly crisp and fresh for many days and that you can just ‘grab and go’.
How Best to Stack My Salad Ingredients?
As you’ll know, making a salad in a Tupperware pot can feel like a great idea, but this can lead to disappointment when you open up the lid to find a wet, slushy mess. To ensure your wet ingredients stay well away from your dry crunchy items, we recommend putting anything with liquid at the bottom – i.e. dressing, coleslaw, chopped tomatoes or salsa.
Continue to stack your chosen salad ingredients right to the top, keeping things like lettuce for last. If you store your jar upright, there’s no way the liquid can turn your lettuce soggy – and, yes, lettuce does stay nice and crunchy using this method!
What If I Don’t Have Enough to Make a Salad?
No such thing, almost everything can go into a salad – you just need to use your imagination. Fish, meat, pulses, boiled potatoes, leftover greens – raw or cooked both work… the list is never-ending.
But if you’re really lacking in inspiration and need a break from meal planning and prep, then you could always treat yourself to a one-off cafe-bought lunch or – if you’d rather take away the leg work too – a delicious office lunch delivery like those offered by https://www.crumbsdelivered.co.uk/shop/office-lunch-delivery.
How Long Can a Salad Last in a Jar?
Of course, it depends on the shelf life of your ingredients, but if all of your items are freshly picked, then a salad in a jar could last a week when stored properly in the fridge.