Backyard to Bowl

📅 Monday, July 6, 2026

🌱 Today’s Harvest

• Arugula
• Green onions
• Cilantro
• Thai basil
• Thai green chili
• Borage flowers

🥣 Today’s Meal

Garden Chickpea Quinoa Salad

🍽️ Meal Prep

❤️ What We Thought

We both loved it so much. Definitely making this again.

🌼 Garden Notes

• Picked everything while the chickpeas were cooking.
• The first arugula harvest.
• The borage flowers tasted mild.
• Lemon came from my brother’s tree.

🌿 Garden Percentage

Today’s Meal

• Arugula
• Green onion
• Cilantro
• Thai basil
• Thai chili
• Borage

🛒 Pantry Ingredients

• 1 cup Chickpeas
• 1 cup Quinoa
• 1 tbsp Olive oil per serving
• 1/2 tbsp Lemon juice per serving (Lemon from my brother’s tree)
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1/4 tsp Pepper

Garden contribution: 6 of 12 ingredients (50%)

💪 Nutrition

Ingredient breakdown:

Ingredient	Approx. Protein
Quinoa	6 g
Chickpeas	8 g
A2 Yogurt	10 g

Protein from our salad: 14 g

🌱 Would I Grow This Again?

Garden Ingredient	Grow Again?
Arugula	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Green Onion	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cilantro	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thai Basil	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Borage	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We also had Pavel’s Low Fat A2 Yogurt (1 cup after the salad) — 10 g protein

🥗 Total: ~24 g protein

🌟 Garden Score

Category	Rating
Taste	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Easy to Make	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Garden Ingredients Used	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Protein	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Would Make Again	✅ Absolutely

❤️ Our Verdict

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

“We both loved it.”

🌱 Will I Make This Again?

Absolutely.