1st Day Pre-Clean: Salad Nicoise, Asian-Style Chicken Soup

   So the pre-clean is eating 3 meals a day using the Clean formula. This was a birthday party day for us, so I had a shake for breakfast, put my favorite chicken soup in the crock pot (I'm sure the recipe is on the blog here somewhere!) and scrounged around in the fridge till I came up with the idea for this salad.

     This was really simple and pretty self explanatory- I went out to our spring garden and picked a bunch of romaine and red leaf lettuce. Topped it with cukes, garbanzo beans, carrot, green beans, marinated artichoke hearts, and some tuna that I had flavored with lemon juice, dill, onion powder, s&p. Some dijon would have been good, but I didn't think of it at the time. Topped it all with some hemp hearts and a drizzle of ume plum vinegar. Voila! 

  

   Mmm. This soup is so good. Really it's the chicken and broth that is so good- then you can go wild adding in different things each time. Today I had some brown rice, and a small stir fry of gai lan and carrot. Sprinkled some red chili and cilantro over the top. No fuss goodness.