Strawberry Spinach Salad

I love this salad!  I have been trying to serve more leafy greens at dinner time, and this is a salad that most of my family loved. My picky 5 year old didn't like it - but he pretty much lives on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Yep he's picky.  But my 7 year old, 2 year old, and 33 year old (ha ha) loved it.   I like the sesame seeds - my husband thought they took away from the bitterness of the spinach.  And do you want to know something cool?  Vinegar has an indefinite shelf life!!!  I am sure all you smarties all ready knew that.  After dusting off my red wine vinegar, I googled it.  No worries.  The stuff lasts forever.  Enjoy your super duper healthy greens! :)

Strawberry Spinach Salad

• 2 bunches spinach, rinsed and torn into bite-size pieces
• 4 cups sliced strawberries
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup white or red wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds

1. In a large bowl, toss together the spinach and strawberries.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the oil, vinegar, sugar, paprika, sesame seeds, and poppy seeds. Pour over the spinach and strawberries, and toss to coat.

Yogurt Fruit Salad

Yogurt Fruit Salad

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Chop up your fruit. Mix with some yogurt.

We eat this fruit salad a couple times every week. It's such a great way to get your fruit at dinner time. I just use whatever we have on hand. Apples, oranges, bananas, strawberries, pears, plums, blue berries, peaches, raspberries, grapes...anything will do. We just use what yogurt we happen to have. My favorite is probably vanilla. Two thumbs up for quick and easy!


This yogurt fruit salad has 1 pear, about 1 cup green grapes, 1 banana and 2 individual serving sizes of Yoplait Yogurt.