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Looking for an easy, delicious, and healthy lunch? These BLA Lettuce Wraps are naturally low in carbs and perfect for an on-the-go lunch. Made with crispy bacon, crunchy lettuce, and ripe avocados, you’ll want to make these for lunch every single day!

 

I know what you’re thinking… BLA sounds suspiciously like BLT. This recipe comes from our friend Alyssa over at Macaronie Bites and she hates tomatoes. So instead of making these lettuce wraps stuffed with bacon and tomatoes, she stuffed them with bacon and avocado!

Ingredients

  • Revolution Farms Whole Leaf Romaine Lettuce
  • Bacon
  • Avocado
  • Spicy Mayo (optional)

Directions:

  • Use large lettuce leaves that are big enough to hold the filling
  • If all fails, use toothpicks to hold your wraps together!
  • Lay your lettuce leaves down and fill with your filling of choice
  • Roll
  • Secure
  • Dip
  • Enjoy!

For the full recipe, inspiration, and super cool printable recipe card, check out the post on Macaronie Bites!

 

These fresh spring rolls created by Amber over at Mommy Gone Healthy are a favorite light and healthy meal. They’re packed with shrimp (can also use chicken), veggies, our Buttery Bibb lettuce and herbs, then wrapped in rice paper and served with a spicy peanut sauce. While they look fancy, they’re actually pretty easy to put together!

A few quick tips:

– Lettuce leaves make rolling easier and help hold all the veggies in place (while also preventing them from poking through rice paper). Our Buttery Bibb is perfect for these as it has a smooth taste and great texture for eating fresh, as well as being grown right here in Michigan, non-GMO and pesticide residue free.

– Fresh veggies are a must! These rolls are best enjoyed the day of as well so rice paper doesn’t get too tough to chew. You can customize it with your favorite veggies or herbs so don’t be afraid to experiment.

– Use a cutting board for wrapping and wet it occasionally to prevent the rice paper from sticking.

Ingredients:

  • 6 rice paper sheets
  • 24 medium shrimp, tails removed, cooked.
  • Revolution Farms Buttery Bibb lettuce
  • ½ cup carrot matchsticks
  • ¼ cup red pepper
  • ¼ chopped green onion
  • ¼ cup cucumber, cut in matchsticks
  • ¼ cup cilantro
  • Peanut sauce (can be found at most grocery stores)

Directions:

  1. Wet rice paper in warm water for several seconds and transfer to a damp cutting board.
  2. Place Buttery Bibb on paper near the bottom edge of the paper, and nestle vegetables and herbs in lettuce.
  3. Add shrimp below lettuce.
  4. Carefully begin to roll rice paper until you reach the shrimp.
  5. Fold in outside edges and continue to roll.
  6. Serve with peanut dipping sauce!

 

This breakfast salad features your favorite breakfast combo of eggs and bacon on a medley of our fresh, local lettuce greens, black beans, tomatoes, red onion, avocado, cotija cheese and topped with a creamy spicy verde dressing! It’s a great way to switch up your normal breakfast routine!

This breakfast salad is the perfect meal to power pack your morning with some veggies, served for a brunch, or a fabulous twist on brinner (breakfast dinner).

For the full recipe created by our friend Amber, click through below to Mommy Gone Healthy!

 

Our Bam! Baby Kale is perfect for making this nutrient-dense, healthy kale pesto recipe, among other things like smoothies, kale Caesar salads and kale chips.

Want to incorporate more kale into your diet? Try this Kale Pesto recipe created exclusively for us by Hannah Hiller of Detroit is for Foodies.

🍃 Kale Pesto Recipe 🍃

  • 1 package Bam! Baby Kale
  • 2-3 cloves fresh garlic
  • 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 tsp Kosher Salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 cup avocado oil

First, blanch the baby kale. Bring a medium pot of water to a rolling boil, season with salt, and add the baby kale. Boil the kale for 1 minute and then drain really well. When cool you may use your hands or paper towel to remove some of the water.

Add the kale, garlic, nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper to a food processor or blender and mix well. Then, slowly add the avocado oil as the mixer is on.

You can substitute Parmesan cheese for nutritional yeast if you’d like and you can always add nuts to this pesto as well. Otherwise, the recipe is vegan if you use nutritional yeast!

This pesto is great on pasta, eggs, grilled meats, as a dip, and so much more! Enjoy!

 

This grilled steak salad with blackened corn is a favorite of Amber from Mommy Gone Healthy. If you need some fresh inspiration, give this one a try!!

To make this salad, start off with a hearty bed of Michigan Spring Mix. Top with grilled steak & charred corn (drizzle EVOO on corn cobs and grill with your steak), add your veggies (tomatoes, red onion, peppers, cucumbers), a generous amount of blue cheese and drizzle with herby balsamic dressing.

Herby balsamic dressing ingredients:

  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • 3 T. balsamic vinegar
  • ½ T dijon mustard
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 1 clove minced garlic
  • 1 T. chopped fine fresh basil
  • 1 T. chopped fine fresh parsley

Italian Chopped Salad Pizza

Our friend Amber over at Mommy Gone Healthy found a way to combine two favorites into one unique mashup dish – salad and pizza!

 

This Italian Chopped Salad Pizza has any number of variations you could make to customize it to your taste, but however you make it, it’s a winner for adults and kids alike. This version uses our Great Lakes Gourmet Mix to make a delightful Italian Salad.

 

Recipe is on her site over at Mommy Gone Healthy:

For all the BLT lovers, here’s a lightened up, low-carb option made with our Buttery Bibb lettuce! This includes three fun variations with delicious flavors! Buttery Bibb’s soft leaves are perfect for lettuce wraps:

BLT Lettuce Wraps 3 Ways

Start with one Bibb leaf laid out on plate or cutting board. Then add:

  • Bacon, tomato, hard boiled egg, mayo, chives, OR
  • Bacon, tomato, blue cheese, OR
  • Bacon, tomato, avocado, greek yogurt ranch sauce (¼ c. greek yogurt, 1 tbsp mayo, 1-2 tbsp milk, ranch seasoning powder)

This satisfies the BLT flavor profile without all the carbs, and adds a little extra flavor in each one with unexpected ingredients. Enjoy!

Recipe courtesy of Amber Battishill at @mommygonehealthy.