Recipe: This salad in a jar will add pizzazz to workday lunches

This DIY meal-in-a-jar has enough pizzazz to greatly improve workday lunches. Limp greens and soggy veggies are often the fate of a made-ahead salad destined for the lunchbox. In Giada De Laurentiis’ cookbook, “Happy Cooking,” she provides a shaker jar strategy. Chill. Shake. Enjoy.

Recently I riffed on this theme: Instead of the romaine, I used a handful of shredded vegetables from a salad mix purchased at my local supermarket, a Taylor Farms’ Sweet Kale Chopped Mix. It included bits of kale...