Salad in Glass Jar: Practical Option for Healthy Meals

Salads are key in the diet of anyone who cares about their health. But this is nothing new. But maybe you are wondering: what is the advantage of putting it in a glass jar or not ?!

But you can be sure: there is no shortage of good reasons to join this trend ?! After all, doesn't it seem like a great idea to be able to bring a little salad to your work (for lunch time) or to your cram or college?

The salad in the glass jar is different, it is an innovative way to eat salad, which can motivate you to eat more vegetables, helping in the search for a more balanced and healthy diet.


Even better is knowing that in this type of jar your salad will stay fresh and be free of health hazardous components! In addition to these advantages, opting for the glass pot instead of the plastic containers has numerous other benefits. Check out:

  • You can prepare it in advance and store it in your refrigerator, as the salad in the living pot lasts about a week;
  • Glass is free of BPA (or bisphenol-A), a compound used in the production of plastics and resins that is harmful to health;
  • The glass jar can be tightly closed and there is no danger of the salad dressing leaking;
  • The glass pot keeps the leaves fresher;
  • The glass pot is reusable.

How to make salad in glass jar

Carol Morais, Functional Nutritionist and author of the Summer for Life Project book, recommends that food be stored in glass at all times because it is a material that does not contain toxins, such as plastic? which often has BPA.

Read also: 20 light and tasty salad recipes


Below, Carol explains how to assemble a salad in the full glass jar:

  1. Start with the sauce.
  2. Then add heavier vegetables that may come in contact with the sauce (eg chickpeas, beans, cucumbers).
  3. Put vegetables that cannot come into contact with the sauce (eg tomatoes, peas, corn etc.).
  4. Put green leaves like arugula, lettuce, basil etc.
  5. Put light ingredients cut into small pieces, such as diced fruits, for example.
  6. Finally, add small grains and seeds such as flaxseed, sesame, chia, quinoa, rolled almonds etc.

In the video below, Naiara Silva also gives tips for making a salad in the glass jar. It's worth watching:

8 Tips for Mounting the Salad in the Pot

Here are important guidelines for those who want to stick to salads in the glass jar:


  1. Always put the salad in the glass jar. That is: forget the plastic pot (which often contains BPA).
  2. Opt for wide-mouth glass bottles, which are much easier to fill.
  3. Enjoy Sunday night to set up salads every day of the week.
  4. When preparing salads, set up? Steps? with the ingredients and then just put each one inside each pot. (For example, leave all the lettuce leaves already washed in a bowl; all the cucumbers already chopped, etc., and then just distribute a little in each pot).
  5. Do not forget that the sauce should always be put first.
  6. Wash all ingredients thoroughly before placing them in the pot. For leaves, wash them and dry them well.
  7. Give preference to cherry tomatoes over chopped traditional tomatoes (as it lets out a lot of water when cut).
  8. Vary whenever possible the mounting of the salad so as not to get sick.

Recipes and Dressings for Salad Salad

1. Lemon Vinaigrette

Ingredients

  • Juice of 1 large lemon
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • Sea salt to taste
  • Black pepper (little)

Method of preparation: mix all the ingredients and you're done! If necessary, add some filtered water.

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2. Apple vinegar dressing

Ingredients

  • ½ cup apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • Oregano to taste
  • Salt to taste

Method of preparation: mix all the ingredients and you're done!

3. Salad with white beans

Ingredients

  • Lettuce
  • Arugula
  • White bean
  • Broccoli
  • Carrot
  • Beet
  • Corn
  • Olive oil
  • Vinegar
  • salt

Method of preparation: Make a sauce with vinegar, olive oil and salt and put in the first layer. Then put the white beans already cooked. Then, the broccoli, carrots, beets and corn. Finally, put the arugula and lettuce leaves.

4. Classic Salad

Ingredients

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  • Cherry tomato
  • Mozzarela di Bufula
  • Olives
  • Lettuce
  • Arugula
  • Lemon
  • salt

Method of preparation: mix lemon and salt and place in the bottom of the pot, starting the first layer. Place the Mozzarela di Bufula, then the cherry tomatoes and olives. Finally, lettuce and arugula.

Did you like the tips? Making your salads in the glass jar you have no more? Excuses? to say you don't have time to prepare them throughout the week! They are super practical and tasty!

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