Garden Bean Salad

If you like gazpacho, you’re gonna love this!

I started to eat about 2 cups of this about every 3 days after I had my big funk day ( somewhere around day 30) to make sure I’m getting enough protein. Yes, its not juice, but hey this is my program and my body and its still veggies.

Generally I use a combination of black, kidney, pinto, great northern, edamame, chick peas – whatever I happen to have/grab out of the pantry. In this batch shown I used:

• 8oz packet of edamame, steamed & shelled
• 1 can dark kidney beans, rinsed
• 1 can great northern beans, rinsed
• 1 yellow bell pepper chopped fine, but not minced
• 1 red bell pepper chopped fine, but not minced
• 1 green bell pepper chopped fine, but not minced
• 2 scallions, sliced, white & green parts
• 1 cucumber, chopped fine, but not minced
• 1 really big tomato, chopped fine, but not minced
• 1 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1/4 cup Old Greek Salad Dressing (whatever store brand is on sale)
• S&P to taste ( I go really heavy on the pepper and fairly light on the salt, cause there’s sodium in the dressing)

Mix it all up and stick it in the  ‘fridge, best served chilled – enjoy!