Fit Friday - Salmon Avocado Salad and Fit Time Tips

Friday is here! Ruthie and I are here with Fit Friday. Ruthie brought us an awesome recipe, salmon is definitely a favorite at my house. We all know that being healthy is a combo of healthy food and being active. Keep on reading, after you stop drooling over this salad, as I talk about tips to making sure you are getting your workouts in. Enjoy!

Salmon Avocado Salad with Sweet Vinegar Dressing is such a beautiful combination of flavors your tastebuds will be in heaven!
 Salmon Avocado Salad with Sweet Vinegar Dressing is healthy, healthy, healthy! Did I mention healthy?! lol. It's starts off with power greens, avocado slices, cucumbers, tomatoes, snap peas, and then add salmon and a sprinkle of sesame seeds on top AND I think you'll agree it's a powerhouse of fabulous nutrition!
 Salmon Avocado Salad with Sweet Vinegar Dressing is a beautiful presentation and makes for a fabulous lunch or dinner anytime!

Salmon Avocado Salad with Sweet Vinegar Dressing

Recipe Type: Salad

Author: Ruthie

Prep time: 15 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 2

Ingredients

• 2 cups mixed power greens
• 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced lengthwise
• 1/4 cup snap peas, thinly sliced lengthwise
• 2 petite cucumbers, thinly sliced on the diagonal
• 1 avocado, thinly sliced lengthwise
• 2 fillets salmon, cooked
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• Sweet Vinegar Dressing:
• 1/2 cup dashi (1 cup warm water +1/2 teaspoon HonDashi Bonito Soup Stock)
• 1/2 cup rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons Eden's naturally brewed soy sauce
• 1 tablespoons sugar

Instructions

1. Place 1 cup of greens on two serving plates.
2. Arrange avocado, tomatoes, cucumbers, and snap peas on greens.
3. Top each salad with one salmon fillet and 1 tablespoon sesame seeds.
4. Sweet Vinegar Dressing:
5. Whisk together dashi, rice vinegar, soy sauce, and sugar until sugar is dissolved.
6. Serve with Salad.
7. Enjoy!

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Salmon Avocado Salad with Sweet Vinegar Dressing will be one of your favorite new salads! Enjoy.

Now that we have dinner planned tonight let's talk about why we do all this health and fitness stuff...

I read a quote that I loved this week and wanted to share.

Exercising on a regular basis has such a dramatic effect on other cardiac risk factors like blood pressure, obesity, and cholesterol that its protective benefits during your 23 nonexercising hours each day totally swamp any risks during exercise itself. -Alex Hutchinson

You have to remember this as you go about your crazy life. I know that so many of us wake up with the sun, or even before, and feel like the day never stops from there. I hear far too often that "I just don't have time...." Today's fit tips are ways to fit in the time your body, and mind, need each day.

1) First and foremost, get it done in the morning. Get it done before you get too busy answering emails, chasing kids around, cooking dinner, and anything else that has that uncanny ability to sneak in.

2) Work out efficiently. Don't feel like you have to have a ton of time, sneak in 20 minutes of intervals on those busy days.

3) Cater to your likes. It is much easier to find time to do something that you like doing versus something that you hate doing. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try new things. But it does mean if you hate running don't try to force yourself to run everyday.

4) Make a competition out of it. Competitions, for me that means races, can be highly motivating. 

5) Make a schedule and stick to it. Your workout is important, don't skip it. Instead schedule it, plan it, and fit in other things around it.

Remember, this isn't just about fitting into those skinny jeans. Working out is one of those things that your body needs in order to thrive.

Happy Fit Friday :) 

Much Love and Peace~ Nichole and Ruthie