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Easy Salad Recipes for Back To School
School has started for my oldest boys and we all have been struggling with our new schedules. With Band practice and Swim practice added to our already hectic work schedule, it’s easy to fall into a dinner rut. Luckily, my family loves salads for dinner. I make a robust , yet easy salad at least once a week for the family and they love it! I’m excited to be sharing two of the most requested salads with you, both are easy and perfect for dinner or lunch!
BBQ Chicken Salad
Chicken Breast and black beans give this salad enough sustenance to be the main course any day of the week. With just a little bit of prep, this salad can be made in a matter of minutes.
Ingredients:
- Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Chicken Breast Fillets (cut into strips)
- Mixed greens
- 1/3 cup canned black beans (rinsed and drained)
- 1/3 cup canned corn (drained)
- 1/3 cup diced green bell pepper
- 1/3 cup diced red onion
- 1/3 cup shredded carrot
- 1/2 avocado, diced
- 1/3 cup chopped cilantro
- crumbled ranchero cheese
- ranch dressing
- bbq sauce
Prepare the chicken according to the packaging and cut into strips. Lay a bed of mixed greens in a large serving bowl, add remaining ingredients. Sprinkle the crumbled ranchero cheese on top, then drizzle fresh ranch dressing and your favorite BBQ sauce. The chicken combined with the BBQ gives the salad a delicious smokey flavor!
Next, toss the salad well and serve. Be sure to save any leftovers in an airtight container for lunch!
Easy Chef Salad
Another family favorite is our spin on the traditional Chef Salad. I even make this one several times a week for my own lunch. Being a working mom, I spend a lot of my lunch hour running errands for the family (especially during the school year), so I need something that I can whip up easily at work. I am lucky enough to have my own personal refrigerator in my office, so I keep Hillshire Farm® Farm Classics® on hand for snacking and lunchtime.
Ingredients:
- Hillshire Farm® Farm Classics® Honey Ham or Black Forest Ham, sliced into thin strips
- Mixed Greens
- Mild Cheddar Cheese, sliced into thin strips
- Hard Boiled Egg, sliced
- 1/2 Avocado, sliced
- Grape Tomatoes
- 1/3 cucumber, sliced
- Red Onion rings
- Dressing of your choice (I prefer Ranch)
Start with a layer a bed of mixed greens on the bottom of a large bowl or lunch container and layer remaining ingredients on top.
I recommend keeping the dressing separate until you are ready for lunchtime. Add a few crackers on the side and you have a delicious and satisfying lunch!
You can find all the ingredients needed for these two easy and delicious salad recipes at Walmart. You can find Tyson® Grilled & Ready ® Chicken in the frozen foods section and Hillshire Farm® Farm Classics® Lunchmeats in the deli section.
How do you adjust to the Back to School routine? I’d love to hear from you!
Happy Meal Planning!
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21 comments
These salads look great. I love how easy they are to make for this time of year and back to school season. [client]
I love chef salads. The hard boiled eggs are the best. I need to make a salad for lunch
Thanks a lot for the post, I needed a variation in my salad inventory haha these look pretty nice
This should be a delicious salad! I think I will try it!
I love the combination in the salad! And having avocadoes in every salad dish will really whip up everything. I recently ordered Kewpie roasted sesame dressing and I can’t wait to have them this week and make my own salad for the weekend.
Wow, your salad looks so delicious. I love the colors!
That salad is just gorgeous, and it’s EXACTLY the kind of salad I’d eat. This is a must make!
I really love salads, it’s easy to make and you get to pick the ingredients that you like. Adding chicken strips would make it even more filling, perfect for lunch!
OMG all these salads look amazing. I like to eat salads at night be carb free so I’ll try these for sure!
I’m so not ready to go back to school. I have such a hard time coming up with healthy lunches the kids will eat. I wonder if they’d go for a salad.
I’m pretty sure I was a rabbit in my other life because I LOVE salad! These are great — especially the chicken with the black bean and corn!
Avocados and black beans makes any salad taste better! Some delicious combinations here!
These salads look amazing! What a great way to get back into the routine of eating healthy 🙂
Oooh my dad would love these salad recipes, he’s always experimenting with them. Will share with him they look awesome.
I love an easy and delicious salad. There are so many different things you can do to make each salad unique. My favorite is chicken with tomatoes and cucumbers with italian dressing.
These salads look amazing!! I am going to stock up on Tyson Chicken and Hillshire meats next time I am at the store. I want one now soooooo bad.
This looks incredible. I love a good salad and that BBQ chicken one definitely looks good!
This salad looks soo yummy! I love the idea of grilled and ready chicken. This would be perfect for last minute dinners.
I love vegies and salad. Keeps me healthy all the time. Thank you for the recipe.
That salad looks loaded with yummy ingredients. I never tried adding BBQ sauce on my salad before though.
What a beautiful array of colors. Wow….it makes you want to just dive right in. A very lovely presentation