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I don't know about you, but Mexican food is a staple in our house.

We have some sort of Mexican dish on the menu at least 1-2 times a week.

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, I wanted to share one of my favorite "healthier" Mexican meals.

Here is what you need:

Directions:

I use my Quick & Easy Shredded Chicken Recipe {HERE} to cook the chicken. I boil 2-3 frozen chicken breasts & then put them in my kitchen aid and it shreds up the chicken!

Pour the seasoning mixture on the chicken & coat the chicken.
Now it's time to assemble your salad. Chop up the lettuce & put in a bowl.
Layer diced tomatoes, diced green onion, shredded chicken, drained black beans & chopped avocado:

Sprinkle with shredded cheese:
Add Fresh Salsa, Guacamole & Sour Cream....this is your salad dressing:

Squeeze some fresh lime juice on top & garnish with tortilla strips:
Such a pretty salad.....
But now it's time to toss the salad & serve it.
You could also add corn or rice to this salad.
I add fresh corn to this salad during the summer months when corn on the cob is at the Farmers market :)
This meal reminds me of a salad you could get at Chipotle, it is so yummy!
It can be made as an individual serving or for a group.
It is delicious!

If need ideas for Cinco de Mayo, here are some of my go-to Mexican Recipes....

Corona Limeade Margarita

7 layer Dip:

Jalapeno Poppers with Bacon: 

Chicken Tortilla Casserole:

 Chicken Tortilla Soup:

Chicken Enchiladas Verde:

Baked Santa Fe Tacos:

Taco Salad:

3 Ingredient Crock Pot Chicken Tacos:

Baked Chicken Nachos:

Anyone else love Mexican food as much as we do?
Have a fun Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Saturday!

I have some updates that I wanted to let you guys know about!

First up, last summer I hosted a Summer Salad Swap Link up & I am going to do it again this year!
I love making salads in the summer & love getting new salad ideas!
Link up your favorite salad recipes this Friday, July 27th!
{You can grab a button on the side bar}

Next up & most importantly......
My friend Jess & her husband planted a church in the Bay Area.
Her husband went to Sudan this Spring & he felt called to do something to help the Sudan, where people & babies are literally starving to death.

Their church will be sending a small team into this region to provide immediate hunger relief next month. Their desire is to continue to send groups of individuals in the near future.

They are trying to raise $25,000 in the next 5 weeks to help the Sudan.

Jess is having an awesome giveaway on her blog to help raise awareness & money for this cause.
I am honored to be a part of her giveaway.
I am offering a party design package from my Etsy shop.
25 invites & envelopes
25 favor tags
25 cupcake toppers

And, speaking of my Etsy shop, my shop will be on "Maternity Leave" starting August 1st.

I will most likely take the whole month of August off, so if you know you need an invite in August, make sure you place your order before August 1st.
Better yet, go enter Jess' giveaway & hopefully you will win an invite!
I just added this cute invite to my shop:
It is the invite I created for my sister's Little Man Baby Shower that I hosted today.
Shower Recap coming soon!

Hope you are having a great weekend!

A few weeks ago we had a Progressive Dinner with some friends.
We hosted the Salad portion at our house.
I served 3 salads and wanted one of them to have flavors of Fall.
I decided to make a Fall Harvest Salad and I threw together a bunch of ingredients & hoped that it would taste good....and it did! It is one of my new favorite salads, so I thought I would share it here!
 Here is what you need:

-Romaine Lettuce
- Apples ( I use Honey Crisp)
- 8 slices of bacon ( I use Hormel Thick Cut)
Cook your bacon & chop it up 
I cook my bacon in the oven at 450 degrees for about 15-18 minutes
- Blue Cheese (optional, if you don't like blue cheese omit it or use another type of cheese)
- Dried Cranberries
- Glazed Pecans (Recipe below)

 Here is what you need:
 Glazed Pecans:
These pecans taste like candy!
They are perfect to put in salads, like this one!

Back to the salad....
Once your bacon is cooled & chopped up, it's time to put the salad together.
Layer the lettuce, then the apples, blue cheese, cranberries & glazed pecans.
I toss this salad with a balsamic vinaigrette!

  
Yum.
This salad is so good & super easy to make!
I had everything prepped in the afternoon, so when the guests arrived at our house for the salad portion of the progressive dinner, I just tossed it with Balsamic Vinaigrette.

The other 2 salads I served at the Progressive Dinner were a Greek Salad & my Beet Salad:

 I just love a salad filled with lots of different flavors!

Hope you enjoy my Fall Harvest Blue Cheese, Bacon & Apple Salad as much as we do!

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And, a reminder...it's not too late to take my 60 day Challenge!

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Hope you have a great weekend!
This is one of our first weekends with NO plans!!!
Soccer season is officially over, so no more soccer Saturdays until next August.
So excited to have a mellow weekend getting things done around the house & watching football!