As well as the running I've been making an effort to improve my diet as well. I've been wanting to lose a bit of weight for a while, and while I'm by no means overweight (just right for my age & height actually) I've not been happy when stepping on the scales. I get a lot of inspiration and ideas from the fantastic Pinterest, and one of my favourite new finds was Salad in a Jar. It's basically salad. In a jar. Crazy, I know. The idea is that the air-tight jar keeps the salad fresher for longer and it's easier to layer up. You place the salad dressing on the bottom, then vegetables, pasta, feta cheese and lettuce leaves on top. When you're ready to eat it, you shake the jar and you're away.
This is my salad for the past couple of weeks, I'll put the recipe below in the order that they were placed in the jar. Almost anything can be put into these salads as well. Many Pinterest bloggers recommend staying away from 'smelly' vegetables & food (fish, onions for example). I'm going to try adding some chicken next week just to up the protein intake.
French dressing (1% fat, from Sainsburys. I also used vinaigrette and Caesar dressing for other salads.
4 Tomatoes, cut into quarters.
1 Green & 1 orange pepper.
Half a cucumber, cut into quarters.
5 radishes, into into quarters.
Pasta
Feta cheese
Lettuce leaves.
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