Restaurant Quality Salads at Home...with NO Effort

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If you have been a reader of this blog for any length of time, then you are well aware that I have been a fan of, and have used, Melissa’s Produce for years. It excites me (more than I should probably admit) when they come out with something new. I was particularly excited to learn that they were coming out with a series of salad kits. 

 

Salad is one of my favorite things to eat, and one of my least favorites to make. All of that cleaning, shredding, and chopping takes a lot of the fun out of it for me. Thankfully, Melissa’s has come out with Greek, Asian, and Waldorf salad kits. I was expecting them to be good, knowing Melissa’s as I do, but these are beyond good, they are spectacular! Everything is vacuum-sealed (and I mean seriously vacuum-sealed), so that everything is at its absolute freshest. My salads were shipped to me from California over the course of a couple of days, and yet, when I opened them up and put them together, they were so fresh, crisp, and crunchy, it was as though the ingredients had only been prepped minutes before.  These are restaurant quality, but even better than that, it’s as though you have your own personal salad chef, making these up fresh just for you. Just a little PSA for all of you salad lovers out there.

 

From their website, here are the descriptions of each of the salads to clarify all that is included. I could have used a bit of feta or some Kalamata olives in the Greek Salad Essentials kit, but not enough to complain. So run, don’t walk, to your nearest grocery retailer, and pick up each one of these. If they are not available in your store, get in touch with your produce manager and request them. You won’t be sorry.

Melissa’s family-size Greek Essentials™ Salad Kit offers a convenient way for busy parents to provide a delicious serving of restaurant quality, prewashed vegetables without the time-consuming preparation and waste. Each kit comes with all the ingredients needed to make a complete salad inspired by the Mediterranean with a light mix of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions and feta vinaigrette. Open, mix and serve right out of the convenient 36 oz. resealable tub to insure the freshness of a second serving.

Melissa’s family-size Asian Essentials™ Salad Kit offers a convenient way for busy parents to provide a delicious serving of restaurant quality, prewashed vegetables without the time-consuming preparation and waste. Each kit comes with all the ingredients needed to make a complete salad inspired by Asian components such as Napa cabbage, crunchy noodles and sweet sesame dressing that are tossed with red cabbage, carrots and green onions. Open, mix and serve right out of a convenient 24 oz. resealable tub to insure the freshness of a second serving.

Melissa’s family-size Waldorf Salad Kit offers a convenient way for busy parents to provide a delicious serving of restaurant quality, prewashed vegetables without the time-consuming preparation and waste. Each kit comes with all the ingredients needed to make this wonderful salad, first served at the elegant Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1893; apples, grapes, celery, walnuts and the famed Waldorf dressing. Open, mix and serve right out of a convenient 34 oz. resealable tub to insure the freshness of a second serving.

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