Category: lunch

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Kale-idoscope Salad

Eat the rainbow with this good for you kale-idoscope of vegetables

Tags cabbage, carmel recipes, detox, easy lunch, healthy, kale, lunch, romaine, salad, sunflower seeds, work lunch

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Sheet Pan Chicken and Fig Salad

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date October 1, 2023
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Who says sheet pans can’t be for salads?!

Tags autumn, chicken, chicken salad, fig, figs, healthy salad, lunch, meal prep, sheet pan, sheet pan salad, summer, summer produce, work lunch, work lunches

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Grill Pan Chicken Salad with Peaches, Almonds, and Fennel

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date September 17, 2023
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A light, refreshing, and protein packed salad that tastes like summer will last forever!

Tags almonds, chicken salad, easy, fennel, healthy, lunch, lunches, peaches, salad, salads, summer salad, work lunch

lunch Sides and Snacks

Healthified Pasta Salad

This is not your grandma’s mayo-drenched pasta salad… in the best way!

Tags barilla plus, healthy lunch, healthy swaps, italian, pasta, pasta salad, quick lunch, weekday lunch, weekday lunch challenge

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5-Ingredient Everything-But-the-Bagel Ahi Poke

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date September 24, 2021
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Local style Hawaiian poke- with a California style Trader Joe’s twist!

Tags ahi tuna, easy, everything but the bagel, fish, Hawaii, healthy, island style, lunch, poke, seafood, summer, trader joes, tuna, under 5 ingredients, warm weather

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Seafood Ceviche Salad

My local Costco had some amaaaaizing ahi which turned into ceviche which turned into an eat-the-rainbow seafood salad.

Tags 10 ingredients or less, ahi tuna, ceviche, easy, fish, Hawaii, lunch, poke, salad, seafood, tuna

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A ONE-pan recipe yielding a truly one-of-a-kind Cobb salad. Simply throw half your ingredients in the oven for 20 min, the other half in your bowl, and you’re good to go (have your taste buds & mind blown)!

Tags chicken salad, Cobb salad, goat cheese, healthy hack, healthy swap, lunch salad, restaurant inspired, restaurant remake, salad, salads, sheet pan meal, warm salad

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Cilantro Lime Chicken Soup

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date December 30, 2020
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Perfect for using up Mexican night leftovers without it tasting like leftovers soup!

Tags chicken soup, leftovers, mexican, soup, soup season, taco night, weeknight, winter

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Amplified Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date December 18, 2020
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Butternut squash soup gets amplified by roasting the squash, and adding in arugula and white beans to break up the baby-food texture!

Tags arugula, autumn, butternut squash, chilly, cold weather, fall, soup, soup season, soups, squash, vegan, vegetarian, white beans, winter

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Thanksgiving Rainbow Chopped Salad

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date November 30, 2020
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A kalaidescope of harvest veggies to grace your chopped salad. Great for a Thanksgiving table or an autumnal side!