Healthy Salad Recipes
Let’s go on a picnic. Summer is the best time of the year to go on a picnic. The weather is perfect, the landscape is blooming and it feels like a mini vacation to be outside. I love packing up a picnic basket and heading outdoors to enjoy the fresh air and beautiful scenery.
Taste Testers Serve this salad for Halloween lunch before the kids go Trick or Treating. Ask your children to help you make this salad and share this fun Halloween story with them. Use your imagination to enhance the story. This Spooky Halloween Salad Recipe is made by adding a scoop of cottage cheese on top of … Read more
One of our favorite quick and easy suppers is a ready-to-eat rotisserie chicken from our local Piggly Wiggly grocery store. We serve it with a few fresh vegetables for a delicious fun meal. Often this leaves us with some leftover chicken and have found that creating this awesome salad the next day is a real treat. Use last night’s leftover rotisserie chicken for the main topping on this salad.
No more boring salads. This Unusual Salad Recipe has all the basics but adds some unique salad toppings. Chia Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Cashews and Cooked Beans. Yum! Get the inside scoop on Chia Seeds, one of Nature’s Superfoods.
Salads make great gifts to give to your friends and family. This Spinach Salad seems to have a little bit of everything in it – making it a nutritious powerhouse of vitamins and minerals. The salad can be made ahead of time and kept fresh in the refrigerator for several hours. Top with a Homemade Thousand Island Dressing.
Green Peppers are plentiful in the middle of summer and they add a sweet crispy taste to a summer garden salad. Fresh peppers mixed with these ingredients are tasty enough that you don’t even need to add a dressing. Learn How to Slice a Pepper.
Taste Testers Fruit salads are great to eat for breakfast, mid-morning snack or as a light nutritious desert. One of the best fruit salads ever combines several colorful fruits layered on a bed of spinach or lettuce. The contrast color and textures of red strawberries, blueberry and green spinach is one of nature’s beautiful creations. … Read more
Summer is the perfect time of year for eating salads. The ingredients can be grown in your backyards and eaten freshly picked. My favorite is a fresh tomato on top of a bed of lettuce, mixed with garden produce. Add fresh cucumber, radish, green onion. Add an egg for your protein and you are set to go.