Delicious Summer Salad with Improvements…

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I am trying to eat healthier.  That isn’t always something easy to do.  I realize that I am making excuses, but it is usually time consuming and bland, not to mention too much work…

One of my favorite salads is “Summer Salad”, I LOVE it!  My mom used to make it and I make it at least once a year, but it usually goes with another meal, as a side ya know?

However, Tyson Foods just came out with some new Crispy Chicken Bites!  You can get them at Sam’s Club, and they should even be doing demos this month so you can try them before you buy!  I don’t even want to tell you how many times I have purchased something that wasn’t on my list, but because they were having free samples, I tried the product and liked it so I bought some.  Bravo to the marketing team at Sam’s Club! 😉  I took one look at these chicken bites and realized that they would be the perfect addition to my already amazing salad.  You can check out my Google Plus album to see my shopping trip.  I got home with the stuff to create my masterpiece…

Thanks to lettuce already shredded and all fresh ingredients, this goes together really fast!  The first thing I did was open the bag of Crispy Chicken Bites and put them in the oven for 20 min. (If you need to go REAL fast, you can also put them in the microwave!)

I was seriously shocked at how large the chicken bites were!  I guess in my mind I was thinking chicken nugget…These were awesome!

So, with those in the oven and ready to go, I started assembling the salad and making the dressing, which is to die for.  I mixed the romaine lettuce with some baby spinach because it makes it that much more healthy in my opinion, and adds that deep green color that I love.

Talk about making things easy and fast…if you don’t have a food chopper, get you one!  I got the onion chopped and the strawberries sliced.  I used the egg slicer for that feat which again saved a TON of time!

The strawberries were absolutely beautiful!  So bright and fresh…the guy at Sam’s was stocking them when I walked in and said they had just come in a few hours before.  I can’t lie, I grabbed a couple packages and I see strawberry pie in our future as well.

These smelled SO good…the kids were all hanging around anxious to dig in.  I let them cool for about 3 minutes and then started to cut them up to put on the salad.

They were so moist and crispy at the same time.  The breading was perfect, not too much, you actually get a lot of meat!

We headed up to my mom’s to eat and she had some beautiful flowers on the table…I couldn’t resist.

I love that we live so close that eating together is something that we can do often.

The chicken was seriously the icing on the cake!  It added enough protein for this to be a stand alone meal and not a side dish. The package indicates that there are 16 grams of protein per serving. The only thing left to do was add the poppy seed dressing…

I only finished eating it less than 5 hours ago, but I am not ashamed to admit that there is some left over and I am planning on taking some in a to go container for the softball game tonight!  Thank you Tyson Foods for allowing me a quick and easy fix for making my favorite salad that much more amazing! Go, try them out and make sure and let them know what you think of them.  You can contact Tyson on Facebook and Twitter, and they would be happy to hear from you…Now excuse me while I go eat some more salad!