Healthy Ham Salad {Portion Fix/21 Day Fix}

I love a good “mixed salad”! Chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad are all on my list. This Healthy Ham Salad is right up there too!

The Portion Fix/21 Day Fix program has room for these kinds of salads as long as they are made with clean ingredients! It is fully customizable to please even the picky eaters! My Hubby won’t eat anything with raw onion in it so I just leave it out of his. 

What ingredients does this Healthy Ham Salad take?

The main star of this dish is the HAM. Deli ham slices are approved for the Portion Fix/21. I cover all the parameters for it in this post about our Red container. Post HERE. But I don’t use deli slices for this salad.

This is my favorite ham to use for my ham salad because it has some “chunk” to it after processing it. I toss it into my food processor and get it as

My fans know I can’t resist a container experiment. I wanted to see just how full my Red container would be if I put my 6 deli slices into it. The results told me that I could use 1 Red full of these thicker slices and be confident about my count. I will leave a little room at the top. There are 12 Tablespoons in our Red container so I use about 10 tablespoons to equal 1R. Two Red containers at this measurement are about 1 1/4 cup of chopped ham. 

Is this a “perfect/exact” method of measuring? No. But it is really dang close! Now onward… 

This is a crunchy, slightly sweet mixed salad. Celery, apple, and onion provide that crunch and sweetness. Sometimes I dice them kind of chunky and sometimes I mince them a lot smaller. It really depends on what I am doing with the salad. If I am making sandwiches I want it on the smaller side but if I am eating it with veggies or crackers I want it diced larger. 

What dressing do I use?

Mayonnaise is used on most ham salads but we are restricted to using it by the teaspoon with the Portion Fix. So I use my mayonnaise-based ranch dressing to dress this ham salad to get that taste. Recipe HERE.

How much dressing I use depends on a couple of things.  This recipe has 2 servings and so I plan on using 2 of them. I add one container into my salad well to see if it is moist enough. Sometimes the ingredients might have a little more moisture in them than other times. I add the second container give it a stir and see if that is more of what I am looking for. Sometimes I might add a tablespoon of milk if I need to. 

How do I serve this Healthy Ham Salad?

A big plate of pita chips, ham salad, and my homemade hummus is a favorite of mine! It gives me that “chip and dip” feeling. My Hummus without Tahini recipe HERE. The pita chip recipe is in there too.

Sometimes I will leave the celery out of the salad and stuff the salad INTO the celery instead!

Here is a cool tip! If you use your Orange container for ranch dip in the Healthy Ham Salad recipe… you can still have Ranch Dip if you use this recipe that uses dairy products. Recipe HERE.