Viral Celery and Date Salad

blue cheese

🥗Healthier: feta cheese

💰Cheaper: goat cheese

Feta provides a similar tangy flavor with fewer calories.

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds are nutritious and often more affordable.

Start by making the dressing in the bottom of a bowl.

Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the bowl.

Add a couple shakes of rice vinegar (substituting for white wine vinegar).

Add a little smidge of Dijon mustard.

Add a splash of salt and a lot of black pepper to taste.

Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into the dressing.

Remove any seeds that may have gotten through the juicer.

Add about 1 tablespoon of fresh chopped dill to the dressing.

Add a heaping tablespoon of fresh Italian parsley chopped to the dressing.

Add 1 chopped green onion to the dressing.

Add the chopped celery to the bowl.

Add 1/2 a cucumber, chopped.

Add freshly grated parmesan to the bowl.

Chop and add 5 dates (seeds removed) to the salad mixture.

Add 1/2 an apple, diced, to the salad mixture.

Toast walnuts on the stovetop and add them to the salad.

Toss all the ingredients together using salad tossers.

Serve the salad in a bowl and taste it.

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