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I like Cobb salad with blue cheese dressing, eggs, bacon, and chicken...or taco salad without the shell.

Yum! Karen, that's one of my favorite salads, though I normally add red onion and top it with with red wine vinegar, pepper, a little salt, and maybe a little olive oil.

I make a lot of salads with spinach, arugula, cucumber, red peppers, shaved carrots, and a dressing I make with apple cider vinegar, stone ground mustard, olive oil, and various herbs. Sometimes I add tuna, and I add a lot of dill to the dressing when I do that.

Lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, jicama and sometimes chickpeas - tossed in this "Better than Ranch" dressing I found online that is actually true to its name (and much lower in calories than actual ranch dressing). Sometimes I toss the chickpeas in some hot sauce to spice things up a bit.

Here's the salad dressing (if anyone's curious):
http://healthyblenderrecipes.com/recipes/evas_raw_vegan_better_than_ranch_dressing

I'm kinda boring as far as salads go: mixed greens, tomatoes, a bit of cheese, a meat protein, cucumbers, sometimes bell peppers and mushrooms (usually not), dressing (I still can't get used to the super healthy stuff like oil and vinegar), if I haven't already had eggs for the day maybe an egg or two, and if I have the calories/carbs, a few croutons...

My better "salad" type food though is a semi-healthy-ish version of deviled eggs. I take two hard boiled eggs, one-two wedges laughing cow light swiss, mustard to taste (usually around a tablespoon, but I love super mustardy eggs), splash lime juice, dusting of paprika. These are better than the real thing once you figure out your preferred ratio! I tried using yogurt to add that creaminess, and it was an abject failure!

Also, for tuna salad (I imagine this would work for chicken salad, too, though I'm not a big fan of it), pouch of tuna, relish (sweet or dill, to taste), 3 or more tablespoons of unsweetened plain yogurt (in place of mayo or miracle whip-add a packet of your favorite sweetener if you prefer miracle whip, to taste), and then any veg you like - I liked quartered cherry tomatoes and bell peppers (sometimes I'll tear up some fresh spinach to toss in too). Stuff this all in a pita/mini pita (or on lettuce leaves if watching carbs) and you have less than a 300 calorie lunch, depending on the relish and such. Very filling, ups the protein, just watch the sodium! If you opt for the lower sodium tuna pouch, you're better off...it is amazing how much sodium is in those silly things!

I love a good chicken caesar salad, but haven't tried tweaking the dressing to make it edible/healthier yet (figured you could use yogurt like the ranch modifications), or tried the spray caesar yet.... I'll see if I remember any more ideas!

I just cannot get into fruit in a salad. Tomatoes are about my limit there. No strawberries, oranges, or other fruit... How do y'all do that? But I'm also kind of strange about not mixing sweet and savory very often... Is that related, do you think? Or maybe I just like to savor my fruits stand-alone? I also don't do sweetened nuts in salad.... Am I weird?

Jicama? I keep meaning to try this... what does it taste like?

It tastes sort of like an apple without the sweetness, if that makes any sense. Like an apple and a potato had a baby. Really, as long as it's sort of juicy and not super hard, I don't really notice a flavor. I mostly like it because it adds a nice crunch. Sorry, I'm really bad at describing flavors!

I just cannot get into fruit in a salad. Tomatoes are about my limit there. No strawberries, oranges, or other fruit... How do y'all do that? But I'm also kind of strange about not mixing sweet and savory very often... Is that related, do you think? Or maybe I just like to savor my fruits stand-alone? I also don't do sweetened nuts in salad.... Am I weird?

Fruit on salad is about the only type of salad I eat. I'm not a fan of certain vegetables prepared raw and in salad: tomato, onion, pepper or mushrooms. None of theses are delicate flavors that i like. I don't mind carrot or cucumber depending on how they re prepared. I also hate salad dressings (most of them), so I don't eat them with any dressing.

Like most of you I have a salad for lunch, usually with my protein on the side. My salad is usually 3-4cups of baby spring mix with spinach (not a fan of bitter or spicy leafy greens). Toped with a variety of seasonal fruits. Apple and pear, peach, peach and strawberry, strawberry, blackberries and raspberries. You get the idea. I add enough fruit so that each fork full can have a piece of fruit on it. It's how I get my fruit in each day.

Once we are back in winter I will probably go back to more traditional salads.

Sure does make going out for a salad difficult, as no restaurant or salad bar seems to deem fruit and expectable salad toping.

Knitormiss I am totally on board with you as to fruit in a salad. I just can't wrap my brain around it! So in my opinion...no way are you weird! lol

I'm a boring salad girl. Romaine and iceberg lettuces, cucumbers, a little cheese, a little chicken or tuna, a few carrot sticks, and then some wonton strips. I found a good balsamic vin dressing that is only 60 cals for 2 T! So that is my new fav. I can't do dry salad. My favorite is blue cheese dressing, but I am not wasting my cals on that!

Newbie here ! All of your salad ideas sound yum! I try to eat a salad at lunch, but get burnt out of them - my fave is a broccoli slaw salad, chicken, cilantro, a few peanuts, lime,