This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ALDI.

Let’s be honest, y’all… for most of us, eating healthy can be a challenge! It takes planning, it takes work, it takes forethought. And it can get EXPENSIVE! Because, you’re looking at making food with lots of fresh meats and produce which can add up quickly. There just aren’t a ton of easy, quick, affordable healthy options out there. I mean, there are SOME, but certainly not a lot.

You guys know that I love to cook, but admittedly, it is also hard to plan and cook and all that stuff with two kids! Since I work from home full-time AND stay home with the kids full-time, I often forget to eat lunch (especially if I don’t have a planned lunch meeting) and some days I get to four o’clock and I’m like… Whoops! What’s for dinner? And then I find myself scrambling and, inevitably, I make pasta or tacos. Haha!

Well, I’ve mentioned before that I LOVE ALDI. It’s one of my favorite grocery stores because it’s easy to navigate, it has a ton of options, the food quality is great, and the prices are the bomb.

Anyway, one thing that I love to do to try to make eating healthier quick and easy is to come up with creative salads. These are ESPECIALLY good for on-the-go lunches. I can run into ALDI really quick and snag all the accoutrements I need for salads, lunches, and dinners for the week and be good to go.

This is one of my favorite salads I’ve been eating a lot lately… it’s a simple southwest salad with some chipotle chicken sausage! All the ingredients I got at ALDI and it’s got just the right amount of kick to make it not just a boring ol’ salad.

This Simply Nature Organic Chipotle Ranch Dressing is a favorite in our house. We always have a bottle on hand because it’s delicious and great for dips and salads.

This “Never Any” Chipotle Chicken Sausage from ALDI is also amazing because it’s super easy to heat up and it’s great to cut up and throw on salads, pastas, and even sandwiches!

And while I love to make my own guacamole, I also love having these 100 calorie “Little Salad Bar” spicy homestyle guacamole mini cups on hand because they’re perfect for when you need just a litttttttle bit of guac and you don’t want to waste any. They’re also great for throwing in lunches or having as a snack.

We are big cheese fans in our house, so we pretty much always have shredded cheese on hand. I really like the ALDI Happy Farms finely shredded Mexican style cheese and I really like the original Kraft finely shredded Mexican style cheese, but I LOVE the price of the cheese from ALDI. The ALDI cheese is $2.69 and the Kraft cheese is $4.99. So yeah, no brainer there.

So here’s how you make the salad…

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Simple Southwest Salad with Chipotle Chicken Sausage | RECIPE

Course Salad

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 2 servings

Author Molly Stillman

Ingredients

• 1 16 oz. container of SimplyNature Organic mixed greens
• Baby Carrots however many you want, I used 6-7 and cut them up
• 1 Cucumber diced
• 5-6 Cherry tomatoes
• Happy Farms Mexican shredded cheese as desired
• 1 Little Salad Bar 100 Calorie Guacamole minis
• 1 package of Never Any! Chipotle Chicken Sausage
• SimplyNature Organic Chipotle Ranch Dressing to taste

Instructions

1. Wash your mixed greens and produce and cut up your desired amount.
2. For the Chipotle Chicken Sausage, I like to make it on the grill or stovetop ahead of time and then cut it up and reheat it when I want to use it.
3. Add a little shredded cheese, top with your cooked sausage, and guacamole.
4. Throw on some delicious Chipotle Ranch dressing and you are good to go!

I hope you enjoy!

What do you think? Do you love salads? How do you like to spice them up (literally)? Do you shop at ALDI? What are your favorite products?

I also wanted to share this fun video I did showing a quick “Try & Tell” comparison of an ALDI product vs. the national brand: 🙂

I’ve also teamed up with ALDI to giveaway another $200 gift card to ALDI so you can get some healthy shopping done!

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ALDI.