Chicken Salad Lunch

Promptly at 12:30 pm every day, I watch my coworker’s lumber up to the microwave to cook their frozen meals. As anyone with a food blog knows, I tend to have a lot of leftovers and those typically become my lunch. But there are times when leftovers are not an option and I also have to succumb to the modern conveniences of the freezer.

But there has got to be good lunch recipes out there that can be easily made the night before and won’t turn into a soggy mess. I’ve become obsessed with this concept with many failed experiments under my belt. However, out of pure luck, I felt this recipe made the grade.

Chicken Salad Lunch
3 (5 oz) chicken breasts, cooked
½ celery, small chopped
3 Tbl. red pepper, small chopped
1/3 – ½ cup mayo
1 tsp. yellow mustard
2 tsp. chives, minced
salt and pepper
2 cups fresh spinach
2 cups iceberg lettuce, chopped

Roughly dice the cooked chicken into medium sized pieces. Add the chicken in a medium mixing bowl with the celery, red pepper, mayo, mustard and chives. Mix together until completely coated with the mayo. Season with salt and pepper.

Evenly distribute the spinach and iceberg lettuce in two plastic containers. Scoop the chicken salad in the center of each pile of lettuce. Garnish with a few strips of red pepper. Makes 2 hearty lunches.

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