2 Minute Salad
Most readers here understand the concepts behind the Primal Blueprint, but some seem to be concerned about the amount of time it must take to prepare PB-style meals every day. Nothing could be further from the truth. My 4-egg breakfast or protein shake take but a few minutes. My evening lamb-chop or grass-fed porterhouse with steamed veggies is complete in under ten minutes. But my fastest meal is also my favorite (and probably healthiest). That, of course, is the “2-minute big-ass salad” I have every day. I’ll show you how easy it is to make in the following video. I’ve also done the fitday.com analysis and it’s pretty impressive: 588 total calories. 37 grams of protein, 40 of fat and only 27 of carbs…and that’s probably my highest carb meal of the day!
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I plan on trying to do more videos in the future. If you have anything you would like me to address in video format hit me up with a comment.
Further Reading:
Primal Breakfast Suggestions for People on the Go
Choose Your Own Salad Adventure
DIY – Butter, Yogurt, Kefir, Oh My!
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Posted By: Mark Sisson
Instead of the “Big Ass” Salad…today I had a “Kick Ass” Salad!!! Or is it the Everything in the fridge salad…either way, IT ROCKED!
I had a massive salad for lunch today too! Avocado, mesculin salad, 4-different bell peppers, flax seeds, grape tomatoes, craisins (small amount), and organic goddess dressing from trader joes! YUMMM
I love how you say “fats are our friend.” And that salad just made me hungry. Lots of good stuff on there–the pine nuts are a good touch. I have been using sunflower seeds. I love me some heir loom tomatoes as well.
Mark..how come you list snow peas in the salad? I always thought peas and beans were not allowed on the primal diet?. I may have to refresh my memory and reread some your book? Time to get my book back from my cousin
Is that a big-ass salad? Or, a big, ass-salad?
That salad is 63% Fat… and my idea of a big salad is at least 1 head of lettuce. This really isn’t a salad at all but a serving of meat and fat with a little bit of lettuce if you look at calo-nutrient ratio. I really believe recommending people eat a high fat, high protein diet will cause serious long term problems.
New to the site & read on your bio you believe in limited fruits, how is it that 6 of your 10 ingredients in your fastest, favorite and healthiest meal of the day… are fruits?
The good thing about salad is you can have as much as you want. For those of us that love to eat and hate to cook, the video has great tips.
I’m a vegetarian, so we drop the dead chicken (it never did anything to us).
We replace the chicken with Chinese Mock Duck (which is mostly wheat gluten… semi-bad) sliced finely, coated in a mixture of vegetable stock powder and cayenne pepper and fried in coconut oil, it’s awesome. You could also coat some tempeh in spices, salt and pepper and fry those babies to a crisp without worrying about the dreaded phyto-oestrogens.
The other way to change things up (that that Mark has mentioned elsewhere, but didn’t mention in the video) is to change the dressings. Add some Sesame Oil, maybe a little chili… Mark’s sensational strawberry vinaigrette.
Put some fresh baby herbs (coriander leaf [cilantro, for Americans], basil, mint) picked straight from a grow-tub into the mix – add some toasted garlic or shallots for crunch (and maybe some roasted crushed peanuts – why the hell not).
Can you tell me where you got or where I could purchase your salad dressing container. It looks better than using a mason jar for mixing a dressing together. Please email ASAP.
Thanks.
I eat an even bigger-ass salad, and was very intrigued by the promise of a humongous bowl of greeens, good fat, and protein that could be made in just 2 minutes, as it takes me a heck of a lot more than 2 mins to throw mine together. As a couple of other folks have mentioned, calling this a “Two-Minute Salad” is rather misleading: you’ve (I hope) pre-scrubbed your veggies, you’ve pre-chopped most of them (maybe not the tomatoes, if they’re grape tomatoes), you’ve pre-BBQed the chicken, and you’ve bought a mixed salad green mix (which really isn’t safe from food poisoning, as we’ve learned from the baby spinach and other bagged-salad crises) and whereas you’ve done everything else in advance, you can’t've run your salad through a salad spinner or treated it with the peroxide/vinegar trick (see (1), and:
http://www.cooksinfo.com/peroxide-vinegar-sterilization
… ) or it would have gone rotten: you have to do this kind of thing fresh, and in either case it takes time. And, your wife pre-made the salad dressing!
How long does it *really* take to make the “two-minute salad”? I’m guessing an hour …
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I use a big bowl. I fill it with an entire bag of mixed salad greens ( the kind with carrots and red cabbage)..cut up 2 hard boiled eggs..throw on 1/4 cup Kraft cheese crumbles..cut up 2 tomatoes..toss in some grilled chicken breats ( cubed)..sprinkle on some sunflower seeds and pepitas..cut up 3 strawberries..and drizzle the whole thing with an oil based dressing.
This huge sucker will last me all day. When I’m home..and hungry, I’ll just pull it from the frige and eat til I’m no longer hungry..then back into the fridge it goes.
If I’m out..I’ll just take some along in a gladware bowl….or I’ll just eat my nuts.
And yes..I’ve learned to never say that around kids….atleast my own weird crazy kids.
I call it my ”No More FAT ASS” Salad
That salad surely looks great, but I wonder if the veggies would not a little dry and boring after a couple of hours in the fridge?
I’d like you to say what type of balsamic you use. Aged 7/10/25 years, or the OTC stuff.