An Easy Summer Recipe with Suddenly Salad
#SuddenlySaladSummer
Whenever we get together with family during the summer, it usually involves spending time around the pool or in the backyard with burgers on the grill, juicy watermelon, and a variety of side dishes. The side dishes always take a meal to the next level, and I have always found that you can’t go wrong with a salad. Especially pasta salad, which my kids gobble down SO fast whenever we make it. In fact, it’s hard to get a full salad bowl out the door with my houseful of taste testers.
Kid-friendly summer salad
We needed some ideas for our 4th of July picnic. So, my junior chef and I headed to Publix with this coupon to check out the tempting flavors of Suddenly Salad. My boys prefer classic pasta dishes, and we chose the Classic Suddenly Salad for our recipe since it’s so easy to customize.
A cold pasta salad is so appealing on a hot summer day, especially in our humid southern climate. And, it is easy to make and jazz up with ingredients of your choice. To stick to our grocery budget, we decided to use some items from our pantry to create a kid-friendly summer salad. We used the coupon from the BettyCrocker website to get three boxes of Suddenly Salad so we could combine them to make a large shareable batch.
How-To
Our junior chef followed the instructions on the box to cook the pasta and mix up the dressing. He used olive oil instead of vegetable oil with the mix. (Tip: When combining 2 boxes of pasta salad, we only use one packet of dressing. For 3 boxes, we use 2 packets.)
To jazz up the mix a little more, our junior chef added 1/2 package of pepperoni, chopped. After refrigerating to get the pasta salad nice and chilled, he topped it with a sprinkling of Italian bread crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese.
No stress, friendly on the budget, quick and easy to make, and kid-friendly! Now, how’d you like to win a little Paypal cash to help you plan your next picnic? Remember, you can get $.75 off (w/ purchase of 3 Suddenly Salads) in July!
Paypal Cash Giveaway
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- follow this link to head to the coupon page,
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- Deadline for entry is midnight July 12, 2016. Giveaway has ended–thank you!
I think the Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes and Poppy Seed Dressing recipe looks great.
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Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes and Poppy Seed Dressing is my favorite recipe.
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I like the Ranch Spinach Pasta Salad
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I like the Layered Mexican Party Salad! Looks delicious!
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My favorite top recipe is the Layered Mexican Party Salad.
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My favorite top recipe is the Black and Blue Pasta Salad with Steak.
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I like the Harvest Grains suddenly salad, but really any of them are delicious. So easy for summer meal planning!
My favorite is the hicken-pasta-salad-with-grapes-and-poppy-seed-dressing.
The recipe for Bloody Mary Shrimp and Pasta Salad looks good.
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Bloody Mary Shrimp and Pasta Salad, of course
Ranch Spinach Pasta Salad
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I want to try the Greek Tossed pasta salad.
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The Ranch Spinach Pasta Salad recipe looks tasty!
The bloody mary shrimp and pasta looks scrumptious!
How can I pick just one?! Maybe the Ranch Spinach Pasta Salad is my favorite, but all look so yummy!
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I really love the Ranch Spinach Pasta Salad recipe!
I like the layered mexican party salad
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Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes and Poppy Seed Dressing
I think the Black and Blue Pasta Salad with Steak looks delicious!
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i like the Make-Ahead Slow-Cooker Asian Beef Short Ribs
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I like the Greek tossed pasta salad.
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These are so good! I used to get this kind of pasta to make pasta salad, but can’t anymore being gluten free.
They have grain salads now, too, in addition to the pasta ones. Can you eat those? The Southwest one is delicious! It has these ingredients: Brown Rice, Quinoa, with Black Beans, Corn, Red Peppers and a Chipotle Vinaigrette. I’m still learning about gluten ingredients, so I’m not sure if these are on the allowed list or not?
As long as they don’t also include wheat, bran, oat, or barley. I’ll have to look for these! Thanks!
My favorite recipe is the Chipotle Chicken-Bacon-Ranch Layered Salad, which uses my favorite variety, the southwest style ranch.
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the chicken salad with grapes looks really good.
The Black and Blue Pasta Salad with Steak sounds like something I’d love!
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I would love to try their recipe for the Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes and Poppy Seed Dressing! I make a pretty plain chicken salad with grapes…this one looks so much better than mine. Have to try! I love cold pasta salads in the summer! Thank you for the coupon!!!
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My favorite recipe is the layered mexican party salad.
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I would love to try the Black and Blue salad with steak. Thanks for the chance to win.
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I’ll definitely be making the bacon and ranch suddenly salad
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The Chicken Taco Ranch Pasta Salad looks delicious! Our whole family would love that one. We are fans of Suddenly Salad, but this is my first time checking out the recipe page. Thank you for sharing!
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I’ve never actually made a pasta salad, I think I might try!
My boys love it cold!
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i think the Layered Mexican Party Salad look delicious.
Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes and Poppy Seed Dressing – YUM!
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