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Making a side salad can take a lot of time. Instead, purchase a cheap compartmentalized serving tray with a lid (less than $5 at Walmart), cut up your lettuce and a few veggies of your choice and keep them in the fridge in this serving tray.

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I found a basic serving tray at Walmart or a dollar store. I chop up lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cukes, etc. That way they are always ready to go and I am not washing and preparing a salad for a half hour each meal.

- Submitted by CSJ522 9/10/2012 in Cooking | 1 Comments

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Have a "Chop Fest"!

Every 2-3 days have a "chop fest"! Fill a few tupperware boxes with lots of washed and chopped/sliced salad and veggies e.g. lettuce, carrots, cucumber, onions, mushrooms, peppers, baby tomatoes, corn, peas, beans, little broccoli florets, bean sprouts and so on.

Then anytime you want to prepare a quick salad, or stuff a pitta bread or add a few veggies to a stir fry - they all all ready for you! Like your own private salad bar!

- Submitted by ADELE66 9/10/2012 | 3 Comments | View Secret

Pre-prepare fresh veggies and fruits

As soon as I come home from shopping, in one big go I tear/cut, wash, spin veggies like lectuce, onions and peppers and put into ziplock bags and then in the fridge.
The same goes for messy fruits like melon and pineapple.

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With all the fresh fruits and vegetables prepared and washed it`s so much easier to make a quick salad or get out a quick snack or dessert of fruit.

- Submitted by GTKARLA 9/10/2012 | 0 Comments | View Secret

Cooked chickens

I found at my local grocery they clear out the days leftover cooked roasters, turkey breasts ect at 1/2 off after 7:30 PM It happens that's when I walk by and if they have some I'll pick one or two up. at 3.50 a bird they cost less than if I bought it and cooked them myself.

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I have also found bargains quick sale items like fruit and salads key is they must be used immediately

- Submitted by RIPPEDPAUL1 9/10/2012 | 1 Comments | View Secret

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