 Hey y'all! Welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video I am going to share with you a healing salad recipe that's going to help you to heal any kind of reproductive issues such as fibroids, PCOS, endometriosis, ovarian cyst. So if you'd like to see how I make this healing salad, stay tuned. So first we're gonna start off with the base of the salad which is the greens. In the salad I'm gonna use three different types of greens. First you will see romaine lettuce. Romaine is absolutely my favorite lettuce to add to salads because it has a crunch to it and it seems to be that it's the one that causes me to be most satisfied with my salad so that's why I choose romaine. Next I like to add an herb and this herb that I'm adding is chopped cilantro and I love the flavor that chopped cilantro gives to my salad. My two favorites are cilantro and parsley but out of the two I really love cilantro. And cilantro is not just good for flavor it is good for healing. It helps to move heavy metals out of the body and one of the things that when it would reproductive issues have is heavy metals lodged in their system and cilantro is going to help with removing that toxic poison. My next favorite green to use is arugula. I absolutely love arugula. I didn't love arugula but when I make it with the combination of cilantro and romaine lettuce and I mix it together and eat it it turns out that this is an absolutely great green to eat in your salad. It is going to help you build the blood it's going to help restore minerals to your body and it's going to make your salad more enjoyable. So if you haven't tried arugula in your salad try a little bit at a time and then build up to more but I absolutely love it. I put it in my salad every single day for the most part. So I have pre-chopped all of my vegetables that I'm going to put in my salad for time's sake. Also there is a link down in the description box with the exact recipe for this salad so you don't have to worry about taking notes on it. First I'm going to add this coleslaw mix. It has red cabbage, white cabbage and carrots. Now I'm going to add some sweet peppers. I had red sweet peppers and orange sweet peppers and they just add a tremendous crunch to the salad as well as texture and flavor. Next we're going to add some carrots to the salad. I love chopped carrots. I just love the way the crunch tastes in the salad. You can shred them, you can slice them, you can do whatever it is you want with your carrots but add carrots to the salad because carrots help with cleansing the liver. Now we're going to add the cucumber. I love cucumber. It's good for the skin, hair and nails and also flushes the nasties out of the body so and also it gives you hydration so eat your cucumbers. What is a salad without onions? I have to have red onions in my salad. I think I make red onions a part of every salad that I make. It just adds flavor and texture and you just have to have onions and salads. If you don't like onions you could always leave them out. As a matter of fact if there's any ingredient that you see me putting in this salad that you don't like leave it out or swap it for something that you do like. Next I'm adding tomato and I have wedged these tomatoes. You can make your tomatoes chopped, you can slice them, you can do whatever you want to your tomatoes. Tomatoes just add interest to the salad. I love tomatoes. Also you don't have to use regular tomatoes. You can use grape tomatoes, you can use different color tomatoes. You can do whatever you want to make your salad personalized to you. So now I'm gonna add a little bit of raisins. I like adding a little bit of sweet to my salad just to give it that hint of sweetness. If you don't like raisins you can add prunes, you can add dates, you can add apricots. Just make sure that the dried fruit that you do choose doesn't have extra sugar on it or oil or any kind of craziness on it. I like to buy unsweetened unsulfurred dried fruit. Next I'm gonna add some blackberries. I am not a fan of blackberries but I like the nutritional benefits of berries so that's why I add them to my salads. My favorite berry if I'm gonna choose any berry I guess is blueberries or strawberries but adding them to your salads is going to take the nutrition level up a notch so it's great to have berries in your salad. So what I'm going to add next is a little bit of fat. I've got some walnuts here, unsalted, raw walnuts and I absolutely love them to add to my salads. Normally I like to crush them up a little bit more but I didn't for some reason when I made this salad but they are a wonderful addition to your salad. It just adds more flavor. So the next ingredient that I'm going to add to my salad is lime. I have been adding limes to every salad that I've been making regardless if I make a dressing or not. I don't know what it is but lime with the romaine, the arugula and the cilantro it just kind of pulls all the flavors together and creates like an explosion in your mouth. So lime it is for every salad for me right now. I don't know how long that's gonna last. Sometimes I get on these kicks but who knows love lime for salads. You should try it. The thing I've been adding to my salads a lot lately is quinoa and the reason I've been adding it is because it is so satiating. It causes my salads to help me stay full longer and it causes my flavor my salads to be more enjoyable. So I eat up to a cup of quinoa a day. That's what I recommend for my clients because you don't want to eat too much. But if you are having trouble eating salads a good way to start eating them is not only to find a good salad dressing that you love but also adding quinoa because it will make the salad more satiating for you. So y'all know how I feel about seasoning my salads. In this recipe I am adding cracked black pepper to this recipe and it just tastes so good y'all. There's you know you can add any kind of seasoning you want to your salads. Black pepper, herbs, spices, garlic, onion powder, specialty seasonings. You just have to make sure that whenever you are seasoning your salads that the seasonings that you use are very clean. So look at the ingredients. Make sure they are ingredients that you can actually understand. So there you have it ladies. A healing salad recipe. All you have to do is pair it with either the lime which is what I did. I squeezed lime all over it and you can use as much lime juice as you'd like. You can also add more herbs and spices but you pair it with your favorite salad dressing, your favorite homemade salad dressing and there's a recipe coming up of one of my favorites in the coming weeks. So I hope you enjoyed this video as much as I enjoyed making it and sharing it with you. If no one told you that they love you today, Chelsea in North Carolina loves you very much and I will talk to you all soon. Take care.