Life as an Aced

I've had a box of quinoa in the cupboard for who knows how long - and after inviting one of my co-worker and his wife over for dinner i got the idea from her to use it in a salad I don't like recipes with ten zillion things in them so when I stumbled upon a caprese quinoa salad on pinterest I knew it would be a good starting point for me. Quinoa Caprese Salad Ingredients 1 cup Quinoa dry cooked (1 cup quinoa 2 cups water) 1 container mini tomatoes 5 sticks of string cheese cut up a handful of basil leaves chopped Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar Salt and Pepper Directions 1) Mix Everything together 2) When ready to serve top individual portions with oil and vinegar 3) Add salt and pepper to taste NOTES: -CousCous would work too -Feel free to use big tomatoes -I always have string cheese so thats what I used but a ball/block of mozzarella cheese works too

On Pinterest Salads in Mason Jars keep coming up as a popular pin. Sounds like a good idea to have everything all right there and just having to shake but I still think that it will all get soggy sitting in the dressing all week While I was grocery shopping last week I found little mini dip containers with a lid (similar to what you would get at a fast food restaurant) and thought those would be a better idea So I purchased the little dip containers along with all my salad fixings - premade the salads in containers with the dip and threw them in the fridge Was super surprised that I actually did end up eating more salad last week and seriously only took like 5 minutes to put it all together Here's an example of my "Salad Kits"