Healthy Salad Bar Salads

letmv4
letmv4 Posts: 21 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So as a quick lunch at work I often stop at a grocery store and get a salad....well before I really started watching what I was eating I topped my salad with all the goodies, that probably weren't the best options. What are you favorite salad bar salad toppers?!

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  • fit_rox
    fit_rox Posts: 83
    Variety of fresh vegetables of choice (tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots), garbanzo beans, grilled chicken, and a low fat dressing :)
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    I make my lunch salads at home and use whatever I have. Some toppings I like are: chopped roasted/grilled chicken, feta cheese, olives, toasted chopped almonds, fresh dill, toasted sesame seeds, chopped hard boiled egg, kidney beans (or another sort of bean), a chopped pickled bean or two.....(only one or two toppings; not all of them at once :smile: ). Tomorrow's salad has a few marinated artichoke heart pieces on it.
    The rest of the salad is lettuce, carrot, avocado, radishes, tomatoes, red pepper and a sliced mini cucumber.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    Whether I'm at a salad bar or not, I love lots of color, texture and flavors mixed together.

    1. Good greens, none of that iceberg crap. A spring mix with some spinach added is ideal.
    2. Onions, preferably red.
    3. Peppers, preferably multiple colors besides green.
    4. Pickles, preferable bread and butter plus a small assortment of non-cucumber pickles (I have squash pickles, Wickles okra and pickled watermelon rind right now.)
    5. A sprinkling of something crunchy: sunflower seeds, cashews, whatever.
    6. A sprinkling of protein, preferably salty: bacon, ham, chicken, egg, steak, whatever.
    7. A good dressing. Usually something light and vinegar-based, like Ken's Steakhouse sweet vidalia onion, but I'm not above something homemade or unusual like hot bacon, ginger, or roasted red pepper dressings.

    I don't bother with cheese in a salad. It just seems to add calories and fat, but there's too much going on to really taste it. I do like to sprinkle on herbs and spices, though. Add a bit of fresh cilantro or thyme or dried garlic along with fresh ground pepper.


    ETA: I do sometimes make exceptions for feta.

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