Shrimp and Avocado Salad

Do you ever get bored with “eating right?” I do. I flip flop from low-carb dieting to balanced eating to the “Eat Everything In Sight” diet! What I have found is that it is much easier to stick with a healthy eating plan when you have lots of variety.

So, that is where this salad recipe came from. Much of the time, I make a fabulous BLT Salad (especially when I’m eating low-carb) or a classic Italian Tossed Salad but on this particular day neither of them appealed to me. I had to have something tasty and new!  It helped that I had a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer and a fresh avocado in the frig! So, I pulled them out along with a lovely crisp cucumber, ripe red tomato, black olives, green & red peppers and a zesty lime and started making the best salad I had had in a very long time!

I loved it just this way but this salad  tastes very good with lettuce in it, as well. This time I left it out…that boredom thing…but I have made a similar salad with lettuce (below.)  Making it without lettuce has another upside– it opens up the possibility of preparing it in advance, sticking it in the refrigerator and serving it later. Brilliant!

Now, you know how salads go. A little of this. A little of that. You determine the quantities and what you’d like to put in. Use your imagination. In fact, I would like to know what you would put in this salad. Let us hear your ideas!

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Shrimp & Avocado Salad

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Shrimp & Avocado Salad With Lime

This easy shrimp and avocado salad can be prepared in a matter of minutes. Use the ingredients you like but it tastes especially good with chopped cucumber as a main ingredient.

Prep Time15 mins

Total Time15 mins

Course: Main Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Salad, shrimp

Servings: 1

Calories: 283kcal

Author: Sinea Pies

Ingredients

• 5 Jumbo frozen shrimp - thawed
• 1/2 Avocado
• 1/2 Cucumber
• 1/2 Large tomato
• 6 Black olives
• 1/4 cup chopped green pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped red pepper
• 1/2 Lime
• Salt & Pepper

Instructions

• Place frozen shrimp in a cup of warm water.
• Remove a few minutes later, when thawed.
• Drain.
• Shell the shrimp and cut into bite sized pieces.
• Slice the avocado into wedges, then cut into bite-sized pieces.
• Shop the cucumber, tomato, green & red peppers into square pieces.
• Mix all of the ingredients together and put on your salad plate.
• Squeeze lime juice over it.
• Salt & pepper to taste.
• Enjoy!

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