Camping Salad

Super refreshing camping salad – today’s salad made with arugula, alfalfa, eggs, olives, tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, turkey, and avocado. This killer healthy and delicious salad is perfect for both lunch and dinner and is ready within 15 minutes. 

So D and I are currently 123 days into our US road trip.

Which also translates into 123 days of eating out. Ok, we stayed with friends a bunch and rented an apartment here and there, but mostly we’ve been living sans kitchen and therefore have been at the mercy of the local restaurants to keep us fed and nourished.

As is pretty clear, eating out all the time isn’t exactly healthy for you. Not with tons of bar food options on the menu laden with thousands of calories constantly screaming at you to order them. Talk about a test of willpower.

Should I get the nachos or a house salad? Buffalo wings or a side of steamed veggies? BLT pizza or steamed chicken?

Decisions, decisions. Sometimes it just gets to be too much. I just want to make my own food, the way I like it, without having to commit to a full sit down dinner, which, let’s face it, sometimes just does not even taste nearly as good as it should.

On those frequent occasions that’s when I get to hotel dining.

And no I’m not referring to those hotel restaurants, I talking about the food prep process that happens right in my hotel room.

As it turns out, it’s not as difficult to eat healthy on the road as it may seem. With a car, we can easily make trips to the grocery store, and with most hotel rooms stocked with fridges (and sometimes even microwaves) we can stock up on fresh fruits, veggies, deli meats and even hard boiled eggs to make our favorite camping salad.

Yes, some grocery stores have hard boiled eggs and I seriously squeal in excitement every time I spot them.

Come on, you know I love love love eggs. And avocados, clearly. And just about all sorts of veggies.

So instead of paying $15-20 for a mediocre restaurant salad, where I’m always wishing there was more of this and that topping, I decided to make my own camping salad.

Currently this is hands down my favorite camping salad. Packed full of protein from the eggs and deli turkey and loaded with vitamins from the arugula, alfalfa, tomatoes, avocados, olives and sun-dried tomatoes this is simply the best on the go meal ever.

With all those awesome flavors in this camping salad, this seriously needs no dressing.

No joke, I add no dressing at all; the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes is all the dressing this gets, and that’s plenty. So whether you’re on the road or comfortably working with a full set of plates and utensils in your own kitchen you’ve got to add this to your collection of salads asap.

Now the reason I call this a camping salad is because it’s the perfect full meal that you can easily assemble when camping. I’ve been to music festivals in the past and with camping we’re always scrambling to come up with a solid healthy recipe. As long as you have a cooler this salad is perfect!

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Camping Salad {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}

Prep Time

15 mins

Total Time

15 mins

 

A super refreshing camping salad made with arugula, alfalfa, eggs, olives, tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, turkey, and avocado. This killer healthy and delicious salad is perfect for both lunch and dinner. Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free too.

Course: Lunch, Salad

Cuisine: American, Healthy

Servings: 1

Calories: 320 kcal

Author: Vicky Berman

Ingredients

• 4 ounces arugula
• 1 ounce alfalfa sprouts
• 4 castelvetrano olives pit removed and sliced
• 4 sun dried tomatoes sliced
• 6 cherry tomatoes halved
• few slices oven roasted turkey cold cuts sliced
• 1/2 avocado cubed
• 1 egg sliced

Instructions

1. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and toss. Add salt and pepper to taste.
2. Optional - add additional oil from sun-dried tomatoes for dressing.