What are your go to salads?

Salad, avocado, tuna and light dressing.... like olive oil etc

I posted a salad recipe on here last month...

Salad recipe. I'm not sure that I've ever seen those two words together...

Made me laugh out LOUD!:laugh:

My favorite salad requires no dressing. I love to take baby spinach leaves and put fruit on top. one bite of fruit with soume spinach leaves--yum


strawberry spinach salad by whitecapwendy, on Flickr

I love the bolthouse salad dressings....the honey mustard is my favorite though the ranch is amazing too. It uses greek yogurt as a base and is only 45 calories for 2 tbls and is super flavorful and amazing (so far I have only found it at Winco in the refrigerated section in the produce area.) My current favorite is organic baby spinach, one hard boiled egg, a few grape tomatoes, a sprinkle of cheddar cheese and salad shrimp (so easy and you can keep frozen and thaw in water in like 2 minutes so you don't end up throwing a bunch away) with the above dressing. So much flavor and super good for you.It takes like maybe five minutes to throw it together and it fills me up for a few hours. The nutritionals are as follows.....

Dinner Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sodium Sugar
Salad Shrimp, 4.5 oz 120 0 2 27 285 0
Eggs - Hard-boiled (whole egg), 1 large 78 1 5 6 62 1 - Organic Baby Spinach, 2 cups 20 3 0 2 65 0 Shredded Cheese (just a sprinkle) - 44 0 4 2 68 0
Bolt House Farms Honey Mustard, 23 3 1 1 58 3
(only used 1 tbls this time)
Totals 285 7 12 38 538 4

PS. I never really ate a lot of salad before and now I end up eating them once or twice a day. I also do chicken or ground turkey taco salads (no chips or sour cream though) using salsa as dressing often too. I am losing weight much slower than you...about 7 lbs in 4 weeks but the inches are coming off so that is really my goal. Good luck to you!

I have one salad that I love. It has grilled salmon, mandarin orange slices, and walnuts tossed into the green stuff (I prefer romaine lettuce and spinach). No dressing required.

I make 4-6 identical salads each week in reusable containers and eat those for lunch everyday until I run out. Sometimes I'll get the Trader Joes Cobb salad, or a salad from Subway if I am short on time. I have a pinterest board with all the salads I want to try:
http://pinterest.com/superspaghetti/healthy-lunches/

This week I'm doing the green juice salad. Some other favorites were the grilled Asian steak salad, buffalo chicken cobb salad, Autumn chopped salad, and chipolte chicken taco salad. I'm looking forward to trying many of the others. Sometimes I'll change up the recipe a bit (less oil, light ingredients, less nuts, etc.) to make it lower cal.

I'm boring when it comes to homemade salad lol. Just iceberg lettuce, cucumber slices, and grape tomatoes. I measure out 2 tbsp of whatever salad dressing I like and tada. If I feel enthusiastic, I fry some fresh bacon and throw together a ceasar salad, but without the croutons (who has croutons on hand as a regular thing anyway?)

I eat a BIG SALAD almost every day. I always start with the prepackaged salad because I like the green variety and carrots they contain. In most salads, I include the following:
red onions
Braggs Amino
something crunchy like crumbled rice cakes (or croutons)
a little kale for the vitamins
something crunchy like nuts and/or chopped raw cauliflower
something sweet/fruity like raisins, strawberries, craisins, pineapple, or clementines

I then add different ingredients to give it a particular flare:
Mediterranean: Feta or grated cheese, Pepperoncini Peppers, Artichoke hearts, sliced olives, dried julienne tomatoes, and low cal italian dressing
Southwestern: grated or crumbled cheese, Pico De Gallo, Texas Caviar (beans and stuff from Costco)
American: grated or crumbled cheese, fresh chopped tomatoes, cucumber, strawberries or pineapple, 3 or 4 bean salad, broccoli and cal ranch dressing,
Asian: Ginger, grated orange peel, almonds, sesame seeds, water chestnuts, rice wine vinegar, shredded cabbage

I'm not much of a meat eater but when I want some, I select from the following:
an ounce or 2 of chicken or turkey breast
chopped shrimp (cilantro shrimp from Costco is really, really good)
1- 1.5 slices of turkey bacon

Once I've made my BIG SALAD, I graze on it for hours adding more lettuce (prepackaged salad) or shredded cabbage until the non-lettuce (calorie laden) stuff is gone, Lettuce and cabbage are "free" calories so I can have all I want.
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I use iceberg, romaine, and baby spinach, cucumber, yellow squash, red/green/yellow bell peppers, celery, and cherry tomatoes.
If I want to add protein, I use what ever lean meat I have on hand or cut up a stick of string cheese or add cottage cheese.
Sometimes I use a fat free raspberry vinegar dressing.

I make a strawberry spinach salad with honey roasted almonds and poppy seeds. The dressing is a mix of balsamic vinegar and Worcestershire sauce among bits of other things, along with olive oil.

Tomato, Mushroom, Red Capsicum, Lettuce

My choices:
-Greek Salad
-Homemade Chicken Spinach Salad w/ peanuts.
-Homemade Three Bean Salad.
-Chinese Chicken Salad.
etc.
(Greek Salad is my #1 pick.)

Greek Tabbouleh has a LOT of calories surprisingly.

2 - 3 cups mixed greens
5 medium strawberries sliced
1 oz goat cheese
Sliced grilled chicken (probably about 3 oz total)
Annie's Natural's Fat Free Mango dressing (only 20 calories per 2 TBSP!)

I eat this salad at least three days a week for lunch. It's delicious, especially if you like goat cheese.

I have just recently discovered that just oil and some red wine vinegar is wonderful all on its own.

I've been having salads consisting of a varying combination of


Spinach, Tomato, Pickles, Banana Peppers, Black Olives, Jalapenos, Bacon Bits, pepperoni, salami, mushrooms, cauliflower/brocolli, avocado, shredded Sharp chedder cheese and of course Oil and Vinegar for dressing.