Don’t take offense to this but, I’m betting you could use a salad right about now.

Am I right?

Today marks day 3 of cookie detox and I think I’m finally getting back to the point of maybe wanting something sweet later on.

It only took a whole head of kale, 1.5 pounds of mushrooms and lots of quinoa and other random veggies to get back here to “normal”.

This salad was eaten on day 1 of detox (I’m using that term lightly here, I wasn’t on any serious detox or anything).

I honestly didn’t think it was possible, but I woke up craving a kale salad.

Really, that actually happened.

Luckily, I had a whole head of it in the fridge.

I also really wanted to test out my new Christmas gift so this salad + hummus dressing was born.

Usually when I make salads, I just throw things in a bowl and either dress them with my go-to balsamic vinaigrette.

Or, if I’m really ambitious, whisk up something a little more interesting.

Nothing earth shattering or warranting a recipe.

This kale salad with hummus dressing was so delicious though that it definitely earned it’s own space on here and I swear it wasn’t just the sugar in my bloodstream talking.

First up, I made the dressing which is basically fancied up hummus with a protein kick from some nutritional yeast.

Want to know the difference between a piece of crap blender/food processor combo and my new 14 cup Cuisinart badass processor?

About 2 minutes worth of processing.

What would’ve taken at least 2 minutes of processing and multiple “scrape downs,” took about 5 seconds in my new food processor.

I’m in love.

Once the dressing was done, I prepped the kale and other add ins and tossed it all together, letting it sit for at least 10 minutes before digging in.

I made a lot of this knowing I wanted to save some for dinner later on and it took every ounce of will power to not gobble it all up for lunch.

2 years ago I had never even eaten kale.

Now, I want to eat an entire head of it in one sitting. Crazy.

And since we’re talking all healthy today, guess what’s set up and ready for this winter?

My new indoor bike trainer from my brother for Christmas.

2 years ago I was still 10 pounds overweight, couldn’t run for more than a minute and could maybe do 1-2 pushups.

Yesterday, I ran 3 miles, did 2 90 second planks, a kick ass upper body strength workout that left my arms feeling like jello and got really excited about setting up a bike trainer.

Eat kale salads and exercise. You’re worth it.