• My three year old dissed my amazing spaghetti sauce for this Feta, Tomato & Toasted Nut Salad. Seriously, if a kid chooses salad over carbs, you know it has to be a good one. I've added bacon, cause well, bacon! And serve it with a drizzle of your favourite salad dressing and you've got an easy dish that will show up repeatedly on your dinner table.

    Feta & Tomato Salad with Toasted Nuts

    I like to think of this as a winter salad because of the festive colours, or maybe because we've nicknamed it Snowball Salad, but really you could serve it any time of year. This tasty Feta & Tomato Salad with Toasted Nuts is a recipe that my auntie Ele made, literally just once, and I fell in love with it. I'm not a salad lover. To be honest, I don't make it often, but with all those impending resolutions creeping up, that may have to change. Snowball Salad will be making an appearance on our meal rotation.

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  • This Carrot & Cream Cheese Jellied Salad breaks the mould with its tropical flavours, a dreamy cream cheese base and carrots to cut through the sweetness! Loved by my family, so much so, three families all submitted this exact same easy recipe to our family cookbook. Jello salad has never tasted so good, or perhaps been so loved! Add this to your list of must-tries, you won't be disappointed.

    Carrot & Cream Cheese Jellied Salad

    Have you heard me talk about my family cookbook? It's sort of our own little food bible. It was created years ago for a family reunion. It's packed with great family-loved recipes, a lot of which have and will continue to appear here! Just like this Carrot & Cream Cheese Jellied Salad which is a favourite. So much so, my dad and my two aunts all submitted the exact same recipe. If that doesn't elude to this recipe's greatness, I'm not sure what could.

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  • I WAS SKEPTICAL AT FIRST. I mean what is pumpkin soup without the rich cream? But this Healthy Jalapeño Pumpkin Soup is packed full of flavour. An easy recipe that's light and perfectly balanced between barely spicy jalapeno and fresh lime juice and cilantro. Pumpkin soup has never tasted so good!

    Healthy Jalapeño Pumpkin Soup

    Can I tell you a secret? I'm not actually a soup lover. Fall means warm cozy meals and I'm pretty sure soup ranks near the top for most folks, but sadly not for me. Are you a soup person? There is a handful of soups I'm always up for, though, they're usually creamy, cheesy, loaded with bacon and come in at about a thousand calories. Then, I came across this Healthy Jalapeño Pumpkin Soup and things changed a little.

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  • Homemade caesar dressing, pan fried crispy salt and pepper breadcrumbs and mushrooms makes this version the king of all caesars. One bite, and I'm sure you'll agree, this is the only way to eat this side dish. Caesar Salad with Mushrooms and Crispy Breadcrumbs is a worthy update to the classic.

    Caesar Salad with Mushrooms and Crispy Breadcrumbs

    When I'm at a restaurant, I generally choose the caesar when offered a side. Of the three usual options, caesar is my go-to. It's not as filling as the soup and the side salad is, well, boring. Now, a good caesar salad in my opinion has to have fresh crunchy greens, a garlicky dressing, bacon and loads of parmesan, Caesar Salad with Mushrooms and Crispy Breadcrumbs takes my favourite salad, one step further. The addition of fresh mushrooms is incredible. I also like to top the whole thing with crispy salt and pepper breadcrumbs for extra crunch in every bite.

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  • Cauliflower, Broccoli and Bacon Salad is an easy side dish perfect for any time of year. Fancy enough for a big family dinner yet simple enough for a weeknight meal. It goes with just about anything! A sweet and creamy dressing compliments savoury bacon and cheese in this salad that pleases everyone!

    Cauliflower, Broccoli and Bacon Salad

    Cauliflower, Broccoli & Bacon Salad is a classic. One of those salads you can serve year round. I love that it's so universal, it's perfect for any and every season. A winner at big family dinners and easy enough to serve during the week. Our family, serves it with practically everything and it's been kicking around our family dinners for decades!

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  • Dress up a bag of coleslaw with this homemade creamy dill-loaded dressing. The dill isn't overpowering and there's even a little sweetness at the end. It's the perfect condiment for pulled pork or as a side at your family barbecue. The perfect summer salad.

    Creamy Sweet Dill Coleslaw

    I grew up in a family that always serves salads at any meal. I can remember my aunt making a dill dressing for a plain old lettuce salad that took the salad from totally boring to amazing. So amazing, in fact, I chose this over the fresh from the oven buns. Shocking, I know! There's something about dill in a salad that gets me every time. When I made Creamy Sweet Dill Coleslaw, it seemed like a natural addition, but holy holy, did that go over well!

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  • Panera Inspired Steak Salad

    Panera Inspired Steak Salad

    The first time I went into a Panera Bread, I was newly pregnant with my oldest son. I had just finished at the doctor's office and I was hungry, headache hungry, in fact. I ran to the drug store for some sort of pregnancy-friendly pain killer. On my way, there it was Panera Bread. The parking lot was full, always a good sign. So I ventured across the road and stood in awe of the menu. What did my hungry self want? I settled on the broccoli cheddar soup in a bread bowl, of course. It was delicious.

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  • Easy Asian Chicken Coleslaw

    Easy Asian Chicken Coleslaw

    This week, the leader of the weightloss challenge put out a request to all the members to come up with great salad ideas and share the photos and recipes, if we chose to. Challenge accepted! I immediately started thinking of different ingredients and how to put it all together. What would make me want to eat a salad?

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