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Stop throwing your Salad leaves away| Repurpose your salad ingredients | Asian inspired Sweet Potato Noodle Salad

Last week I wanted salad, which is a rare thing, but I purchased arugula and tomato and such for said salad! Well a week later (not even a week really) and I noticed my salad leaves were started to go bad; you know how they start to get wet and slimy and such (real gross)!

However today, I thought, why not repurpose my salad ingredients so I can stop throwing away my yummy salad leaves.

This meal is vegan-friendly, so no meat involved. So here we go with my tasty warm Asian inspired noodle salad. Everything is leftover and sitting in my fridge, looking sad.

I boiled and drained my sweet potato noodles, cut them into smaller piece and rinsed in cold water to stop the cooking and set to the side.

1 package of baby bella mushrooms quarter and about 7 baby bell peppers sliced.

3 roma tomatoes. I had a half bag of each of the following: spinach, arugula, and broccoli slaw.

In my big wok pan which I love sooooo much is olive oil, heated. Add mushrooms and peppers and garlic and stir-fry for 4 minutes or so. Then add in the broccoli slaw and cook for another 4 minutes.

Add in the salad leaves

Let them cook just until wilted then add in tomatoes and I had some alfalfa sprouts

Mix and cook for 1 minute; I just let my tomatoes get warm.

Now the last steps are adding in the noodles and sauce. The salad dressing I used was an Asian sesame dressing, but you can use what you want, this is what I had

Mix and serve. You can eat hot, cold or room temp. I will never again throw away my salad leaves or other salad ingredients. After heating all the veggies, I could have added them to rice, or other noodles or even potatoes. Better yet, I could eat them without a carb!!! I just wanted to share with you guys. Until next time remember to Cook, Eat and Enjoy!!!

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Favorite Snacks while driving for Lyft

Some of you may know that one of my hustles is driving for Lyft, which I actually enjoy quite a bit. I have met some really awesome people and had some very enlightening conversations with people from all over the world. Sometimes I drive really long hours, 8 plus. And of course driving that long, I have to have snacks to keep my energy up and sometimes to keep me occupied and awake. So my snacks change all the time, but as of right now, these are my favorite go to snacks.

Because I am an avid shopper at the Asian grocery stores in my area, I am always finding new foods to try out that I have never even imagine. One of these would be dried or dehydrated sweet potatoes. Now sweet potatoes is one of my top favorite foods and to have it in a dehydrated form, I wasn’t to sure about. But I found this Asian brand and the only ingredient is sweet potatoes.

That is important to note because I found some other brands that had preservatives and such in them.

Of course when I find something I really like, it seems everyone around here stopped selling it, so I found another brand which ingredients are sweet potatoes and honey;

although a bit sweeter than first brand, it is still very tasty.

These dehydrated veggies are not only good, but they are good for you, loaded with lots of vitamins and minerals, and they last along time.

Another snack I have really been favoriting is Pocky, Chocolate Almond Crush flavor.


These little yummy are dangerous, because I find myself not being able to eat just two or three. This box comes with two plastic packs inside with 6 stick per pack. They are like a cookie or biscuit that is dipped in milk chocolate and real crushed almonds. So very good. When I can not find this brand, I also get the Pepero brand which is a Korean brand.

Same exact thing just made in a different country, and still tastes just as good.

Next is another Asian favorite of mine and it is Sangaria natural flavor Ramu, grape flavor.This is just a grape soda made with real sugar and natural flavor. Definitely taste the difference between this and grape Fanta or Crush.

Again I love sweet potatoes, so when I found this at my local Grocery Outlet, I was eager to try them.


Simple and addictive, these sweet potato crisp are light and easy to eat a lot of. They have a very authentic sweet potato taste with a hint of salt. Additionally, If you have ever eaten Quaker brand rice cakes and liked them, that is what these are, but very very thin.

The last snack food that I have been keeping with me while driving are these Good Health Veggie Chips that I found at Dollar Tree.

At first, they didn’t have much flavor, but that is because they are not extremely salty, just very lightly salted. These chips have tomatoes, spinach, beets, broccoli and carrots in them, not that they have a strong flavor. Might be a good way to sneak some veggies in your kids diet.

Overall, I try to eat healthy while I am driving because there are so many options and opportunities for me to eat not so healthy and sometimes I do partake in the unhealthy habits. However, I find that as long as I keep healthy options on my person, I am a lot less likely to do so.

In the comments, let me know some of your favorite snack you are eating right now!!!

Until, next time; Remember to Cook, Eat and Enjoy!