Grilled Coleslaw with Lemon Herb Vinaigrette

Have you tried to pick out a healthy box of cereal lately.  There's no telling how much of my life I've wasted standing in cereal aisle, staring blankly at shelves filled with rows and rows of cereal boxes. ⏱ All I want to do is choose a box of cereal for my family that's relatively healthy and not loaded with sugar.  I used be a Raisin Bran fan but I recently read that Raisin Bran has the more sugar than MOST other cereals on the shelves.  😳 Wait - it's fruit right?  

It seems like every week, I stand in the aisle, staring at the shelves trying to choose a new healthy cereal.  It's easy to eliminate the boxes with pictures of cookies or doughnuts on them but there's a lot of unhealthy cereal disguised in healthy looking boxes too.  I carefully scrutinize ingredient lists and nutritional information until my brain gets overloaded with facts and grams and calories.  At some point, I end up just grabbing a box and hoping for the best. 

It shouldn't be this hard to choose a cereal that's low in sugar and high in whole grains.  ​I don't think that I'm an indecisive person.  I feel like there are just more and more options on the grocery store shelves every single week.  Have you seen the yogurt section lately?  There are literally twenty different kinds of nearly identical blueberry yogurt varieties.  🍶

It's easy for me to get overwhelmed when I'm at the grocery store.  I want to pick out the most healthy food to serve my family but it's getting harder and harder for me to navigate through all of the products on the shelves.  Sooooo, I do my best to shop the fresh foods around the perimeter of the store and avoid the processed foods in the interior aisles.   It's never going to be possible for me to eliminate processed food completely from my shopping list completely because I can't live without things like garbanzo beans and tortillas.  🌮 And who would want to?  

Thank goodness for recipes with ingredients that I don't need to research ahead of time to make sure they're safe and healthy to feed my family.   Cabbage, carrots, mint, lime and onions are all things that I can buy all year at my local Sprouts store.  Grilled Coleslaw with Lemon-Herb Vinaigrette is the perfect side dish with delightfully fresh and easy to choose ingredients.  

Grilled Coleslaw with Lemon-Herb Vinaigrette
1/2 small napa cabbage
1 carrot
4 Tablespoons olive oil
1 lime, halved
1 green onion, sliced thin
1 Tablespoon honey
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 Tablespoons chopped fresh mint

Cut cabbage into 4 wedges.  Brush cabbage and carrot with 1 1/2 t. oil.  

Grill 10-15 minutes until softened and charred. 

Grill lime 5 minutes until charred. 

Juice lime into bowl.  Add 2 1/2 T. oil, shallot, honey, salt, pepper and mint. 

Chop carrot and cabbage into 1/2" pieces.  

Toss with dressing.  ​

Serve. 

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