Garden Vegetable Salad

This would make a great side salad to any meal, or even a wonderful snack.  If you can keep it cold, you can even pack it for school or work lunches, or as part of your picnic meal.

This salad is easy to prepare, and can be almost completely free if you grow everything yourself. If you purchase the items needed, you should look at spending about $15.00. You will have leftover ingredients to use with other meals.

Adding salads to an already vegetable rich meal is a healthy way to get in all of your vegetable servings each day. I have read that we should be getting in about 9 servings of vegetable a day, rather than the 4 or 5 servings that we are all used to.

Garden Vegetable Salad:

Serves 4:

4 cups cabbage, shredded

4 cups lettuce, shredded

1 cup snap peas, uncooked

1 cup beans, uncooked

1 cup carrots, shredded

1/4 cup fresh chives, chopped

1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped

20 cherry or grape tomatoes

1 cucumber, sliced

1) Combine everything into a large bowl.

2) Toss and serve.