Tuna Salad Lettuce Wraps

Stephen and I made these this weekend, they were delicious and savory. We didn't even miss the mayo and bread that typically comes with a tuna sandwich. This is a perfect lunch or a quick and simple dinner if you are in a rush!

2 cans of tuna in water, drained

1 cup carrots, chopped

1/4 cup sugar snap peas, chopped

1/4 cup cabbage, chopped

4 celery stalks, chopped

1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard (make sure no sugar)

2 tablespoons dijon mustard (no sugar)

salt and pepper

2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish

1 tablespoon chopped capers

Romaine lettuce spears- or you can use butter lettuce

Directions: 

• Chop all your ingredients (Stephen did a pretty awesome job chopping, don't you think?!)
• Mix all of the ingredients together in a small bowl. Taste and add extra mustard if you would like it a tad creamier. Also add salt and pepper to taste. 
• Fill your lettuce spears with the mix (Stephen had also spread a little hummus on the bottom and put some avocado on top, was pretty amazing!)

Chicken Salad

For the past several weeks I have been eating salads... pretty much exclusively, and I was burnt out! I wanted to prep something new on Sunday that would give me a few meals during the week. I really liked the chicken salad I came up with! The cilantro in the salad gives it a great freshness that typical mayo salads lack. Try it out! I served mine up as lettuce wraps, using delicious butter lettuce!! Stephen still doesn't understand why grapes are in the salad, and I think it freaked him out a little, but he had to admit that it tasted really good.

1 rotisserie chicken, shredded or cubed

1 1/2 cups grapes, sliced in half

1 teaspoon salt and pepper

1/2 cup cilantro, chopped

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

2 stalks celery, chopped

3 green onions, chopped

2 tablespoons mayonnaise 

2 tablespoons sour cream

1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)

Directions:

• Shred the chicken and put in a large bowl
• Add all the other ingredients and mix 
• Serve up in a lettuce wrap, on some bread or in a tortilla (or Stephen just eats with some chips!)

Anytime Sandwich!

I call this sandwich an "anytime sandwich" because it is delicious for any meal. The first time I had this sandwich was at a coffee shop and I had it for breakfast so of course I re-created it for Stephen and I for lunch a couple days later. It is SO simple and just surprisingly delicious!

Cream Cheese

Bagel

tomato

cucumber

sprouts or arugula

avocado

salt and pepper

garlic powder

Directions:

• Slightly toast the bagel of your choice
• Spread with a generous amount of cream cheese and sprinkle lightly with salt, pepper and garlic powder
• peel the cucumber and cut into very thin slices
• Then layer the sliced avocado, cucumber, tomatoes and sprouts on the bagel and cut in half
• devour! 

Chicken Salad

I have probably made this one before- but just wanted to use up some of our lettuce last night. Decided to use a rotisserie chicken I bought over the weekend and make a delicious chicken salad! I wanted to try a new dressing so I found this sesame ginger at the store. With the ingredients I used for the salad, it seems a little funny, but this dressing is SO good with this salad!

2 cups arugula 

1 cup spinach

1 cup mixed greens

1 can red beans, drained and rinsed

1 can corn, drained and rinsed

1 package mushrooms, sliced

3 carrots, chopped

4 green onions, chopped

1 can olives, drained

1 cup rotisserie chicken, chopped

1 red pepper, chopped

Sesame ginger dressing

Cleanse Day 1 - Lunch

Tomorrow marks the start of my cleanse! I will actually be attempting to do it as long as I can, but for the purposes of this blog- its actually a 21 day cleanse that Stephen and I will for sure be adhering to for 30 days. One thing that can be hard when doing a cleanse like this is packing a lunch for work. My go-to meal will be a veggie sandwich. Its filling and satisfying so I am not thinking of food the whole day. Here is what goes inside!

Brown Rice bread

Soy Mayo - it is eggless 

micro-greens (or sprouts)

spinach

tomato

shredded carrots

red pepper 

avocado

Salt and pepper

Reuben Sammy

I look forward to Corn beef and Cabbage month all year long, and thanks to my marvelous mom, I get to make delicious Reuben sandwiches!  This one of my favorite sandwiches, Stephen and I could eat a ton of these!

Corn Beef, boiled with pickling spice

Sauerkraut

Thousand Island dressing (good kind)

Rye bread

Swiss cheese

Directions:

• Warm your corn beef if it is not already and also slightly warm the sauerkraut. 
• Toast the rye bread and then put a thin coat of Thousand Island dressing on each slice.
• Layer the Swiss cheese down, then corn beef then sauerkraut
• Serve up!!