The salad.

I'm a meat and potatoes girl... it's just the way it is. I've tried over the years to train my taste buds otherwise, but to no avail.  For some reason carbs just speak to me.... like a warm blanket, or conversation with a good friend... they comfort me. In fact, I've been single handedly known to demolish a homemade loaf of bread...in ONE sitting...and feel completely at peace with it. 

So here's the thing,  Brent and I are trying to lose some weight (why not just go and share the all  the embarrassing details of my life) and unfortunately my meat and potatoes just aren't doing the trick. I've fought and fought but realized that if I'm ever going to lose any weight,  Salads are the way to go.  

I should start by saying that I have a very long and fragmented relationship with salads that has always teetered between love (occasionally) and hate (mostly). Something in me just screams, "if I were meant to eat leafy grass, I would have four legs and live in a field somewhere." The love part comes in to play, only when I put so much on top my salad that it ends up having more calories than the Big Mac I should have ordered in the first place. However, in my plight to find a salad that I like... I came across this (pretty huh?) 

So, I've been eating this every day for the past two weeks  and surprisingly I'm still lovin' it. You should totally try it out. Pretty much makes eating healthy seem like a fairly reasonable option (kinda).

Spinach leaves

Quartered strawberries

Chicken 

Slithered almonds

Parmesan cheese 

Fat Free raspberry vinaigrette