Colby Jack Grilled Chicken Salad #keto
I’m going to share something with you.
As much as I love food, sometimes I hate cooking. Don’t even get me started on the cleaning up afterwards.
Shortly after I started YUM eating I quickly realized how much of a mess I was going to be cleaning up – ALL the time. While I do get help sometimes, I don’t really get a lot of help with the photo set up, shooting, presentation and plating of food. When I have starving people staring at me, wondering when I am going to feed their mouths, I feel frantic and rushed. I still haven’t mastered the art of keeping some of the food out for later or for in the morning.
Mostly because we never have leftovers here.
I guess time management skills just aren’t on my side.
So, when it comes to creating healthy lunches for myself, I tend to just stick to easy salads like this one. I will grill up a few chicken breasts earlier in the week and keep them in a glass pyrex dish for safe keeping. I am lucky that my family prefers the dark meat, so I don’t get bothered too much.
My grilled colby jack chicken salad is just a bunch of mixed greens with cherry tomatoes, grilled chicken and slices of colby-jack cheese. I warmed the chicken up so it would make the cheese a bit melty.
I love cheese and I have been trying to cut back on it, so this salad was a real treat for me.
I highly suggest splurging for the mixed greens. Much better taste and more filling than iceberg lettuce.
Salad lovers, what’s your favorite flavor combination?
That is my idea of a perfect lunch! I want one of these salads today actually!
This looks delicious and very healthy and easy to make! Yum!
Mixed greens are my favorite too. Sometimes in the summer I am able to grow my own lettuce and I have a great variety! This year was too dry though.
Now this would be the perfect meal for me. I love chicken salads for lunch. This sounds awesome with that cheese.
This looks amazing! I think this may be just the recipe I need to get back to eating healthy again, lol.
Colby Jack is one of my favorite kinds of cheese. This salad looks perfect. I wouldn’t change a thing. Yum!
We never have leftovers either, so this sounds like a perfect lunch option for me too! I can see my husband taking it to work with him as well!
I don’t eat salad, horrible right? I don’t like lettuce (again horrible lol, I get made fun of lots) but my kids? LOVE salads and request them often, this would be great!
I love having salads for lunch and sometime dinner. I enjoy grilled salmon on greens. I use a balsamic vinaigrette dressing and feta cheese.
One of my favorite meals is a chicken salad. Adding the Colby Jack cheese sounds delicious.
I love a salad with chicken breast cut up in it. The flavor combination is so good!
This looks delish! I really like protein on lunchtime salads for sustained energy the rest of the day. I love this combo.
My friend’s daughter is only 2 but she says Colby Jack so crystal clear. It is fantastic so I don’t blame her. Got to try this salad in her honor.
What a good healthy meal. Looks so tasty also.
I never think about sliced cheese on my salad! I love how you use the chicken to melt it, yum!
I like the cheese a bit melty too. This looks and sounds great.
Colby Jack is one of my favorite types of cheese and who doesnt love a healthy salad?
This is a quick and easy sald. You could also do it with Salmon.
My favorite flavor combo for salads is anything where sweet and salty is mixed. I had a great feta and watermelon salad which was amazing. I am going to make your salad for lunch this week.