Easy Chicken & Sweet Potato Salad
This easy and quick salad can be thrown together in under 10 minutes! It’s a perfect combination of crunchy and sweet while providing you with a variety of nutrients.
What You’ll Need
Frozen chicken tenders
Frozen sweet potato tots or fries
Green Mix (spinach, butter lettuce, etc.)
Carrots
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Onions
Bell peppers
Feta cheese (or a type you prefer)
Honey Mustard Dressing
Instructions
In the air fryer or oven, place chicken tenders and fries, and cook according to package
While that is happening, go ahead and prep your salad with the above ingredients (adding or removing anything you want)
After chicken tenders and sweet potatoes are finished, make your salad
Add cheese and dressing and enjoy
Notes
You can use a salad kit or have items prepped beforehand to make this even quicker!
Food Freedom Tip!
Who doesn’t love a classic tenders and fries!?
I love having chicken tenders and fries just as much as the next person, but what I’ve come to realize by learning how food makes me and my body feel—having those chicken tenders and fries without any fiber, color, or micronutrients—is that I honestly don’t feel my best the rest of the day.
So, something I always keep in mind and what I teach my clients is nutrition by addition. Have what you want to eat (chicken tenders and fries) and add what is going to provide you with nourishing ingredients (vegetables, fiber) to help you feel your very best.
This not only helps you to normalize all foods, but allows you to see you that you don’t have to remove your favorite foods to have a balanced lifestyle.
Side Note: This is not to say you can never just have chicken tenders and fries/tots. It’s about recognizing what you need and how you want to feel in the moment and for the rest of that day. Sometimes, you’ll want just the tenders and fries and that is going to feel good. While other times, adding them to a salad is what will help you to feel good. Nutrition By Addition is more so a guideline rather than a set of rules.