Catalina's Favorite Salad

Currently enjoying my favorite salad ever (for the second day this week since baby spinach is only sold in 24 oz. packages at our local grocery)! It looks like this:

Kathleen's Favorite Salad

It's pretty basic, but so delicious! Pan fry a couple pieces of chicken tenderloin or a single chicken breast in a tiny bit of oil (I season with ginger and pepper--sometimes my roomie Annika's lemon-pepper, which is magic and wonderful). Usually, I cut before cooking--since that way it cooks faster. Once the chicken's done, I throw some spinach in a bowl, spoon a few mandarin oranges in, sprinkle on some almonds, throw in the chicken, and some crunchy rice noodles (which it occurs to me I forgot to add to the pictured dish). To finish things off, I pour on some fat-free poppyseed dressing. 

Relatively healthy, pretty tasty, and, unlike my lean creamed spinach recipe, not requiring the milk-I-forgot-to-buy-this-week (Tess you should be proud--I'm drinking black coffee this week).