Who doesn’t long for soft, supple and glowing skin? We all do, and this means I try to include only the best beauty foods in all of our community recipes I share with you here. My Healthy Glow Kale Salad Recipe is just one more way to share The Beauty Detox Solution lifestyle with you!
Our intention is to pay it forward in sharing only the best tips, tools and beauty ingredients to help us all achieve our glowing best. Let’s be sure we pass it on and continue focusing on achieving and maintaining overall health and wellness!
Healthy Glow From The Inside Out
Glowing skin is about using the right kind of products and how we create healthy energy and cells from the inside out! Diet and lifestyle all work together to help you reach your ultimate potential for amazing radiance.
Dull, dehydrated, under-nourished skin needs nourishment on many levels. Including the right nutrients, which will help your skin will look alive and gorgeous. Sure, makeup is fun to use and play with, but it doesn’t hide what you’ve been eating!! That inevitable comes through on your skin.
A great bonus is, you won’t be spending so much on those highlighting products once you master this part. This is because you won’t need them anymore! How amazing is that?!
Remember, too much makeup is clogging. It’s of course okay to wear some makeup (and at events I certainly wear foundation and the whole gamut!), but day to day it’s so incredibly empowering to feel okay going out into the world virtually bare-faced. And also helps us avoid tons of unhealthy products!
Three things to focus on when you’re working toward getting glowing, gorgeous skin that looks as if it’s lit from within are:
- Putting the right nutrients in with the foods we choose
- Pulling toxins out
- Hydration
That’s an easy enough formula, wouldn’t you say? I know you can master it too, so let’s do it together!
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While your overall diet will affect your skin, I’m going to review one specific food that can give your skin that extra love and attention. And in case you’d like to learn more, I cover many other foods in the skin section of The Beauty Detox Foods book.
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How Kale Has Positive Effects On Your Skin
With The Beauty Detox Foods, kale is an incredible beauty superfood that is one of my personal favorites. Packed with phytochemicals, fiber and chlorophyll — a major blood builder — which helps promote glowing skin and many other beauty benefits.
And in case you hadn’t heard, healthy blood is a primary building block for beauty!
Though it’s been ingrained in us to associate protein with animal protein, it’s easy to forget how much protein we gain from plants. And kale is especially high in plant protein. What does this have to do with our skin?
Well, what’s so great about plant protein is that it’s easy to digest and assimilate which helps to build healthy and strong muscles, hair and of course, SKIN. It is much more easy on our system than animal protein, which unfortunately contains tons of toxins.
When we remove these hard to digest foods from our diets, this will make digestion easier on our guts and ultimately, help to break down the nutrients. The end result? Our skin and whole body will benefit!
Adding lacinato kale into the mix, is a very wise choice we can make when rotating our greens. In addition, you will gain added benefits with all the other ingredients in this dish. From the hydrating tomatoes and cukes, to the cleansing lemon and healthy fats from the avocado and hemp seeds— your skin will be soft, supple and irresistible to touch!
Let’s check out this simple and beautifying recipe, shall we! ????
Prepare ingredients.
Mash the avocado and lemon juice until fully combined and creamy.
Wash, de-stem and cut kale into small pieces. Pat dry.
Massage the avocado mixture into the kale by hand. This will be your dressing.
Add all of the veggie ingredients into a large bowl to combine.
Then, add the kale mixture into the bowl.
Mix until fully combined, adding salt and pepper to taste.
Enjoy!
See this full tasty recipe below…
Healthy Glow Kale Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- • 1 bunch Lacinato Kale
- • 2 Roma tomatoes chopped
- • 6 cherry tomatoes chopped
- • 1 small cucumber chopped
- • 1 red pepper chopped
- • 1/8 cup Kalamata Olives sliced
- • 1 avocado
- 2 Tbs hemp seeds
- • ½ juice of a organic lemon
- • Handful of sprouts
- • Sea salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash and de-stem the kale.
- Then, shred the kale into small pieces, pat dry.
- Slowly massage avocado and lemon juice into kale by hand, this will be your dressing.
- Combine all other ingredients in a large bowl. Enjoy!
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Have a great week Beauties!
Lots of love,
Kimberly
Kisses and hugs help make life sweeter!! xo
This dish is attractive. I like it. Thanks for sharing. I’ll try this at home.
Wonderful! Let us all know how it goes – lots of love! ;)
Kale, tomatoes, cucumber and red pepper are a daily must for beauty! Thank-you Kimberly for this gorgeous recipe! xo
Lots of love to you Kate! ;)
Hi Kimberly !
Do you almost always follow your principle of eating raw and fat dense lunch ?
I have your books and question myself about what YOU do :-)
Thanks in advance,
Elodie from France
Hi Elodie and thanks for your great question. Yes, I would say 99.9% of the time I eat according to my principles. Progress not perfection, right?! We all will have some slips – the point is to get back into the swing of it with the very next meal. Lots of love and continued support to you! ;)
Thanks for the sharing healthy, nutritional recipe and this is wonderful. I’ll try this at home.
Wonderful! Let us know what you think and lots of love to you!;)
Is this dish okay for Blossoming Beauty phase?
Hi LaToya – take a peak at the Beauty Detox Solutions pages 168 onward, for a detailed list of foods to avoid. However, the ingredients in this recipe should all be safe to consume if you’re in this stage. Maybe just forgo the salt, if at all possible. Let us know how you do and how you’re progressing. Sending you lots of love and support! ;)
Thank you Kim, this recipe looks so tasty, you always bring up the most amazing recipes, actually where i live kale doesn’t exist, so can i replace it with other greens like spinach or lettuce? love you a lot
Thanks so much Sophie, and yes, you can definitely switch up your greens with what is handy to you. This will ensure you are receiving a variety of nutrients as well. Keep up the great work and lots of love and support to you! ;)
Hi Kimberly,
Oh my, so many amazing salads here. I really wish I wasn’t stuck in freezing winter temperatures right now because I want to eat them all.
Thanks so much! Try to keep warm and sending lots of love! ;)
I’m going to try this salad soon but I wanted to let you know I bought your newest book! I loved it, you wrote it so well and I really resonated with lots in it! Thank you for sharing! Hello from Canada :) xoxo Tara
That’s amazing Tara! So happy you’re loving it. My heart and soul went into writing that book and is very special to me. Keep up the great work in taking care of yourself and sending you lots of love! ;)
Aww thank you Kimberly, I genuinely appreciate your response! I do LOVE your book, it’s amazing! Thank you so much :) Sending you lots of love as well <3
Wow, This is best and we will involve in our special food or daily meal. Will share with my home chefs to try at home. Looking yummy salad.
I’m so happy to hear you’re going to try this out! Sending you lots of love, Beauty!
HI Kimberly,
i wanted to ask you what does your baby eats, and how I can incorporate ur diet for 5 year old one,’
thanks so much anna
Hi Beauty! I feed Lil Bub a plant-based diet – he loves protein smoothies, avocado wraps and snacking on raw veggies! I have a lot of resources on my blog about raising kids on a plant-based diet. Here’s a podcast that might be helpful! https://mysolluna.com/blog/2016/05/05/tips-for-raising-plant-based-children-bio-podcast-ep-56/
Hi, just wanted to know your take on nightshades vegetables. I see you advocate using tomatoes and peppers which are two on the list.
Thanks.