Guest Post: Healthy Chicken Salad, aka “Seed Salad”

By Tiffany, on July 26th, 2012

Remember when I shared how I sneak flax into the foods we already eat? Well I showed you guys a picture of the common way we eat flax – a little dish we call “seed salad.” It has all kinds of goodness inside… sunflower seeds, apples, pepitas, coconut oil, flax seed, dried cranberries and almonds – YUM!

I’m over at Kitchen Stewardship, sharing how this delicious, healthy and REAL food salad came to exist.

I was making chicken salad one day for lunch and wanted to switch out the mayonnaise for something else. What’s the problem with mayonnaise? Nothing, if you make your own. But the fat-free version I had in my fridge had four ingredients listed as “cautionary” and five ingredients that are “not normally found in mayonnaise.” Uh-oh. To top it off, I like my chicken salad to be very wet, which means a lot of mayonnaise, and I certainly did not want to eat a lot of “questionable yuck.”