Detox Salad

Try this easy and filling Sunday meal prep: Detox Salad!

After a long holiday weekend, a detox salad is “just what the doctor ordered.”

That’s true especially if the weekend consisted of Labor-Day-in-Minnesota activities.
Read: Wedding (cake and booze); MN State Fair (fried food on a stick); Road trip (rest stop food options).

So a detox was MUCH needed. And this detox salad was:

• Ridiculously delicious.
• Incredibly filling.
• Gluten free, dairy free, no-sugar-added, vegan, etc.

While it takes a good amount of chopping (unless you use make it a Vitamix recipe by using your Vitamix to chop), it is 100% worth it.

And, I should mention: It’s wonderfully addicting.

With a citrus avocado dressing, the recipe for this detox salad follows the delicious irony of its perfectly balanced flavors.

Plus, some highlights from my weekend.

The Ironically addicting detox salad

Junk food creators aim to do precisely what this detox salad does: Create a curious balance.

They aim for “The Bliss Point.”

The concept comes from the shocking and highly recommended article “The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food.”

Basically, when recipes have more than one distinct flavor, we don’t grow tired of it. Great examples include:

• Dr. Pepper
• Snickers Bars
• Heinz 57 ketchup (although HFCS causes addiction here, too)

Given just one of Dr. Peppers’ flavors, or nougat, or tomatoes, we’d enjoy until a certain point. But we’re able to identify the flavor and move on.

When, however, the flavors are perfectly balanced, we compulsively go back for more.

Big Food has used this trick for decades.

Now, I’ve used it in this detox salad.

Can you taste the irony? 🙂

This salad is so, so good.

So complex.

So balanced that it’s good anytime, anywhere, and with anything.

And of course, you never want to stop.

Best part?

This detox salad is amazingly good for you.

Almost to the recipe…

Detox Salad

Recipe by Lenny GaleCourse: Food Prep, Popular

Servings

4

servings

Active time

40

minutes

Calories

300

kcal

Yield

8

cups

Total time

1

hour 

10

minutes

Ingredients

Directions