I love making salads. Actually, I love EATING salads. What I don't love is: A) taking the time to chop everything from scratch each and every day B) soggy salads made the day before C) salad dressings that DECREASE the nutritional value of my salad! (Think sugary, overly salty stuff with additives so you can keep it emulsified, forever, in the fridge door.)

Yeah, no. Those are things I ain't got time for.

Instead, I get together about 3 or 4 of the best ingredients for a salad, chop them all up at once, and pack them into ziplock bags or storage containers for the week. Same goes for the dressing. It's ridiculously simple, but WAY more fresh tasting/non-soggy/anti-time-consuming than doing it some other way.

Only one more thing I feel important to take up your little bit of free time with. Why these ingredients? Well, I'll tell you why. But only because I know you care a lot about nutritional value and absorption and such! Also, that way, you can find other ingredients that do similar things for your salad, so you can go wild trading them out.