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Up Your Salad Game With a Veggie Chopper
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Many health-conscious consumers like eating more salads but hate the time needed to prepare them. A registered dietitian offers this realistic nutrition tip: Understand and accept your limitations in preparing salad at home and find a kitchen gadget to close the gap.
for over two years. “After topping the salad with a protein source, such as chicken, feta cheese, or sunflower seeds, and adding dressing, just give it a shake and eat from the box,” she says.
Amazon sells a variety of veggie choppers, ranging from $18 for a basic model to $29 for an all-in-one gadget with nine inserts, including blades for julienne or crinkle- cut veggies. Other hacks to up your salad game include starting with the freshest greens you can find, keeping them very cold until served, using tasty dressing, and adding lemon zest or a splash of orange juice to store-bought products. You can even add pickled, grilled, or marinated vegetables to enrich the flavor.
Instead of taking time to chop salad ingredients individually, add your veggies to a vegetable chopper that slices or dices each item and drops it into a plastic container, says Kylie Sakaida, a nutrition expert with a significant following on TikTok. A veggie chopper is a large plastic box with a cutting lid. Built-in blades on the lid slice or dice ingredients and drop them into the box for storage. With one simple stroke, entire tomatoes, carrots, and chunks of lettuce transform into a pile of colorful, bite-sized salad ingredients without making a mess in your kitchen.
With a veggie chopper and these other tips in your kitchen arsenal, you’ll be making salads like a pro in no time.
“Don’t empty it along the way. Just make your entire salad in here,” says Sakaida, who has used her veggie chopper
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