I can't stop fucking eating this summer salad

I have been eating this salad non-stop. It's literally all I crave and all I enjoy right now. This is my take on a salad that I ate at a restaurant in Boston last summer, where I had this four times in a week.

in all its glory

I make it out of all Trader Joe’s ingredients, except for the fig balsamic, which my friend Ally got me at the Flatiron Eataly in NYC.

Greens

• butter lettuce + arugula bag mix 
• torn basil (lots) 

Protein + fat

• Trader Joe's grilled lemon pre-prepared chicken breast -- I usually cut up like 1/2 cup or so and microwave it for 30 seconds. A whole package lasts me like 3 huge salads
• Plain chevre (if you don’t like goat cheese, torn mozzarella from a big ball would work just as well)
• Slivered almonds (not sliced)

Fruits: be not afraid to try your fruit at Trader Joe's, especially the berries

• Ripe nectarine: smell the stems
• Strawberries, sliced: smell the pack for that sweet, achey summer smell 
• Blackberries: try one
• Blueberries: try one, look for dusty skin

Dressing: I don't mix this beforehand. I put this on the salad all at once and then toss the shit out of it 

• Fig balsamic or any good balsamic vinegar (good balsamic pours quite slowly, so I do a bunch of thin drizzles)
• Olive oil (2ish big glugs) 
• Generous squeeze of lemon 
• Salt
• Pepper

I eat it out of a big mixing bowl like an animal