Anna and I were recently brainstorming topics to share with our readers. She mentioned her clients often ask her how to make a good salad and suggested I write a post about salads. So, I thought I’d go ahead and share my family’s Favorite Everyday Salad.
We all love salad in our house! But that hasn’t always been the case. It’s one of those examples of food I kept serving even though the girls didn’t touch it for years. They’d eat apples dipped in mustard vinaigrette or cucumbers and carrots dipped in dressing, but no salad. I followed (and still do) the Ellyn Satter Division of Responsibility that Anna talks about in Family Feeding – The Long Haul. Letting kids decide what and how much they’ll eat of what’s offered allows kids to use their internal and intuitive cues….