A healthy salad for a holiday weekend :)

Wooo! TGIF and a 3 day weekend.. how amazing :) I am sure all of you are already on your way to where you are going for the weekend, but hopefully you may get this before you go OR if you are attending a holiday picnic this is SO super easy to bring!! My friends loved it when I brought it to the shore, even stubborn husbands ;)

SO here it is - real, natural, simple, and yummy .. I don't have a picture, but you will get the idea !!

Ingredients...

1 can of garbanzo beans rinsed and drained *buy the organic in water*
1 can of black beans rinsed and drained *again organic*
2 ears of corn on the cobb, cut the corn off the cobb
2 cups of peas (I buy the organic frozen if I cannot get the fresh)
1/2 red onion chopped
1 pepper of choice chopped
1/2 cup of chopped almonds
1/2 cup of sunflower seeds (remember to buy the nuts raw)
1/2 cup of feta cheese
the juice of half of a lemon
olive oil (guesstimate the amount!!)

*optional, feel free to add any other veggies, I have used avocado, cucumber, carrots, celery, and even added some olives..

So ready for this super simple method??

All you have to do is prepare all of your ingredients first and have them all separate.. If you are bringing this to a party or want to make a large batch of it, you can put them all together in one container, and use the olive oil and lemon as a dressing and add salt and pepper of course! You can use a whole lemon or more olive oil, just be your own judge here -- If you like it more lemony use lemon, more olive oil, use it ;) just don't use too much olive oil b/c it will ruin the taste.. Its just to have a little something on it and the lemon will help preserve the veggies..

SO the first way is just to put it all together - this is easy and if you don't eat it all in one day it will keep for about a week.. I make this a lot on Sunday's and use it for lunch for Cort and I (I will be posting soon with healthy packed lunches).. If you are one of those people who doesn't like food that sits.. put all of the ingredients in a separate container and scoop a little out into a single serve bowl to have for a snack or serve with a dinner or you can do it for lunch that way.. just add the lemon and olive oil to the single serving.. You really can't get much easier can you?

This is like the most versatile meal ever!!! Its great for lunch, great for entertaining, great for snacking.. and guess what.. its REAL food :) WOOO!!

Hope this finds you all well, I wish I had pictures, but I figured I would rather give you the recipe and sacrifice the pictures than wait until I made it again!! I wish you all an amazing long weekend!!
Live Well xoxo