Carnitas Salad

Wish I had taken a picture of this meal. It looks almost as good as it tastes. We had to divert a bit from our usual carnitas salad. When we looked in the veggie drawer it appears that waited a bit too long to make this salad cuz the 2 bags of shredded cabbage were not looking so good. Time to improvise.

If you haven't had carnitas before...man...you are missing out. The carnitas we used are from Del Real Foods and we get them at Costco. A quick search of their website shows that you can get their products at Von's if you don't have a Costco card. You're not going to get all those good samples at Von's though. Bit of a warning, these are fairly high fat, great if you are a 2-5x fat Zoner, not so great if you are following the blocks in a 1:1:1 ratio. This salad is so good and the carnitas are so tasty, I think it's worth the extra fat in this meal, but then again, I'm not a big fat gram counter. Anyway, here's the recipe:

Ingredients:
1 head(?) of Broccoli chopped (normally we use shredded cabbage)
2 Bell Peppers thinly sliced
3 cucumbers sliced
5 or 6 cherry tomatoes quartered
a whole mess of cilantro (you really can't overdo it with cilantro, can you?)
Avocado (if you can afford the extra fat)
3-6 oz of carnitas (3 oz = 13g fat, 10g protein)

Put a big pile of the veggies in a bowl, top with 3-6 oz of carnitas depending on how many blocks you get. I put an additional half of an avocado on mine, told you I didn't count my fat grams much. Then top with copious amounts of cilantro, really heap in on there, its damn good stuff. I also added a bit of Organicville orange cranberry viniagrette to mine.

This was clearly a super high fat meal for me, but again, I'm not that concerned. Amy doesn't get to eat quite as much fat as I do, so she skipped the avocado and she squeezed the juice of an orange on her salad and was equally as pleased with her meal.