It’s always good to have a few healthy, light things ready to go for when you get hungry and don’t have the time and/or energy to do anything elaborate.

Thus, always have the fixins’ for a satisfying, nourishing, soup, salad, smoothie, snack and cold drink in your kitchen.

SALAD:

Salad is a lot like soup in that you can put just about anything over a bed of greens and voila - salad!

Keep a mix of pre-cut, pre-washed greens like kale (chop very fine for salad), spinach, arugula, romaine, etc. in a container in the fridge. Have some sprouts on the side and also whatever else strikes your fancy (carrots, peppers, jicama, olives). Pre-cut as much of it as possible and store in a tupperware in the fridge. Add things from your pantry like wakame seaweed, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, dried cranberries or other fruit,  Add beans or some fish or organic, free-range chicken. Then top with a non-creamy, gluten-free dressing. I like a simple splash of olive oil, vinegar and lemon and some seasalt.  You can take some nori seaweed and use it to wrap the salad into little burritos.