How To Keep Healthy These Holidays with The Smaggle Salad-A-Day Challenge

By Carly Jacobs

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ou know that gluggy feeling you get towards the end of the year? When you realise that the only green thing you’ve had in the last few days was an apple martini? I tend to get a bit busy and a bit crap at being healthy in December so this year I’ve created a salad-a-day challenge (#smagglesaladaday) to keep me on track with my healthy eating through out December and I thought make a list of salad prompts so you guys can join me. It’s a great way to make sure that you’re getting your essential serves of veggies in between all the mince pies and champagne! Here’s the list of prompts…

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How to participate in the challenge

1. Save the list of prompts somewhere you’ll see it – in your phone, on your desk top or print it off and stick it to your fridge.

2. Use the daily prompt to inspire your salad of the day.

3. Snap a picture of your salad and upload it to Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #smagglesaladaday and tag me @smaggle in your post.

That’s it!

Prompt help

I tried to make the prompts as inclusive as possible to make them achievable for people with dietary requirements so you can interpret them any way you choose but here’s a little help if you need it.

1. Green – think leaves, broccoli, herbs, olives, green plates, green forks. Anything green!
2. Fresh – go fresh today with leaf based salads, tomatoes, cucumber… anything fresh that floats your boat.
3. Big – go big with a giant serve of fresh veggies, any kind you like!
4. Crisp – think crispy today with noodles, capsicum, thin apple slices or toasted almonds.
5. Red – apples, tomatoes, capsicum, pomegranate, chilli, red bowls and napkins.
6. Nuts – go nuts! Literally.
7. Snack – make a snack salad with carrot, celery or capsicum sticks, dips or a boiled egg.
8. Dressing – dress your salad today to make it extra fancy.
9. Herbs – mint, dill, basil, coriander – what’s your favourite herb?
10. Seeds – sesame seeds, chia, pumpkin and sunflower seeds are your inspiration today.
11. Warm – go with a warm salad today maybe chicken, pumpkin or potato?
12. Protein – beef, chicken, tofu, chickpeas. Pick your favourite protein!
13. Fruit – have a fruit salad today! Easy.
14. Greek – think feta, olives, sun-dried tomatoes and cucumber.
15. Grains – barley, buckwheat, millet, quinoa – even popcorn counts!
16. Asian – think thinly sliced carrots, sweet sauces and crunchy noodles.
17. Beans – green beans, cannellini beans and kidney beans are on the menu today.
18. Orange – anything orange! Oranges, carrot, orange capsicum, sweet potato, pumpkin… smoked salmon?
19. Summer – think summer salads with avocado or mango… anything summery.
20. Rainbow – go with heaps of colour today – as many as you can fit on your plate!
21. Cleansing – today’s prompt is all about being clean so go with lots of greens and cleansing ingredients.
22. Vegetarian – bulk up on your veg today but add some tofu, beans or cheese.
23. Quick – speedy and easy is the name of the game today.
24. Power – include a power ingredient like blueberries, salmon or cranberries.
25. Chocolate – It’s Christmas day so dump all your gifted chocolate in a bowl and make Chocolate Salad!
26. Leftovers – make an awesome salad with all your Christmas leftovers.
27. Mexican – think guacamole, salsa, cheese and taco spices.
28. Light – lighten up today after Christmas overindulgence with something healthy.
29. Favourite – have your most favourite salad in the world today.
30. Raw – think crunchy, fresh and raw.
31. Fancy – It’s New Years Eve so have something a little bit special today.

Just remember not to get too hung up on the prompts – the most important thing is to eat a salad a day!

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Who’s in? Let me know if you’re keen to play and pop your Instagram handle in the comments so I can follow you!

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About Carly Jacobs

Carly is the founding editor of Smaggle which launched in 2007 back when blogging was weird. She has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Cosmopolitan and Cleo magazines. Hoop earrings are totally her thing and she almost got run over by Myf Warhurst while out jogging one day.

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