With my cholesterol tirelessly shooting up, I have no choice but to deal away with red meat and shove greens down my throat as many as I can.
Goolai, a brand that offers prepacked green salad variations topped with seasonal fruits, nuts and other healthy stuff, is one of my favorite organic treats. It’s claim to fame is not its being organic though but its tangy salad dressings like the creamy mango, raspberry, garlic ranch and others. My hands are down to its amazing dressings but with the great packaging comes a heavy price tag. Each pack costs about P146.00 which is a pocket drainer considering that one could finish the hefty pack in one sitting.
So in this tough economic times, I tried to be a copycat and come with my own version of the green stuff.
Iceberg lettuce is way cheaper than the romaine so if you are really on a tight budget, you can be partial to it.
Olive oil, balsamic vinegar and walnuts are surely bank breaker but they are good for more than just one consumption. They could be stocked up in the pantry for future use.
Pepper and garlic are the cheapest ingredients.
For the toppings, I suggest that you go to the supermarket to get your produce weighed. From grapes, kiwi, fresh mango slices, cucumber, oranges and lemon.
You will be needing the lemon and orange juices and zest. combine them with the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, pepper and chopped garlic. There’s no measurement put everything according to your taste. You could prepare as many as you want and put them in the fridge for future use.
Tip though in preparing them is make the lettuce as the bed and just put the rest of the ingredients on top of it because they are too heavy that if you toss them up, they will end up on the bottom. So prepare it like the lettuce as the pasta and the toppings as the sauce.
I am telling you it is all good! All the goodness without breaking the bank.