Garden herb salad with tomatoes and a delicious dressing

Get some COLOUR in your meal :D Call me a geek, but whenever I eat ANY food, I'm ALWAYS thinking about how many nutrients it contains. I'm always aiming for HIGH nutrient dense foods. How to tell if your meal is nutrient dense: 

• Bright or intensely-colored (think reds, oranges, dark greens, purples)
  
• Whole and unprocessed (the less done to a food, the better)
• Raw or cooked at low temperature (leaving heat-sensitive vitamins, minerals, and enzymes intact)

...while you eat your super amazingly colourful salad, watch the 3 minute youtube clip below to find out more about nutrient dense foods.

salad:
4-5 cups rainbow chard (or your fave greens)
1/4 cup cherry tomatoes (or normal tomatoes since ours are so expensive!)
1 bell pepper
1/4 avocado
handful basil leaves
handful oregano leaves
2-3 dried figs/dates
...and any other colourful veggies you might like to add.

dressing:
1 tablespoon mustard
1 tablespoon miso 
1 tablespoon vinegar
2 dates
2 peeled garlic cloves
1 teaspoon nutritional yeast 
handful of walnuts (around 1/4 cup)
handful basil leaves
water, as needed

chop up the greens, tomatoes, pepper, avocado and figs. set aside. to make the dressing, blend all the ingredients together, adding as much water as needed. pour the dressing onto the greens and mix in. top it off with the remaining goodies and enjoy!

Recipe is from one of my favourite blogs: http://www.thisrawsomeveganlife.com/