Our Daily Salad Routine, Now Straight from the Garden

How wonderful is it that I can just walk out to my garden in the morning and harvest some lettuce for my salad for lunch? Pretty darn wonderful.

I was almost tempted yesterday to skip my daily salad. For over a year now, my husband and I have been taking salads nearly daily to work for lunch. I think it's made a huge difference in our health, and on our wallet.

How to Store Freshly Harvested Lettuce

I found a nifty little tutorial on how to store the lettuce I harvest from my garden. You can read it here from Pinch My Salt. It definitely works. 

First I put the fresh lettuce in a big bowl of cold water, and then rinse each leaf individually after taking it out of the bowl.

Beautiful! I love all the colors that come out of my garden.

I spin it in my handy salad spinner, which I use every day now. Ours is from Oxo, and it works great.

And then as the blog recommended, I wrap the lettuce in a paper towel and put it in a Zip-loc bag.

So far, this has resulted in crisp lettuce that lasts several days, which is nice, because I can make a big harvest of lettuce and prep it for several days worth of lunches.

First Harvest Results in a Lovely Salad with Blueberries and Yellow Cherry Tomatoes

Growing lots of lettuce!

When I discovered my spinach had bolted, I decided to start harvesting my other lettuce for a salad. It turned out really well.

I took some red sails lettuce, some romaine, buttercrunch and a few pieces of kale. Added some blueberries and some yellow tomatoes for a deliciously sweet and fresh salad.

Yum!

An assortment of fresh garden greens!

Added blueberries and some yellow tomatoes. Delicious!