Salads yes or no!

It's up to you how many calories are in the salad. Calculate correctly (weigh your dressing or buy individual packets) and you'll know how many calories are in it, and if they're worth it to you.

I love taco salads, and with salsa used as a dressing, it's pretty easy to fit in my goal (although watch adding things like avocado and cheese).

For another common dressing, I do horseradish mustard mixed with balsamic, and usually some avocado for some fat. I love salads with lots of flavors and ingredients, and as long as you log it properly and it fits in your goals.

And there is nothing worse than a sad salad to me (some lettuce, dressing, and not much else). I've been served a few of those at restaurants and had my day ruined...

I make my own chicken salad, everyone loves it. I don't use a lot of dressing in it, just enough to moisten the chicken. As for green salads, we add whatever vegetables we like to it, like tomatoes, cucumbers, onions celery, mushrooms, olives. I don't put any dressing on mine most of the time, but guacamole is a great topping, so is the hummus. I love pumkin or sunflower seeds on my salads, and feta cheese. So i prefer to load it with other things, rather than dressings. Have to have my salad every night

I adore salad, and have (finally) learned to eat it with less dressing. So my salads typically have a bunch of leafy greens, 3-4 oz grilled protein (typically chicken but varies), 28z shredded light cheese, cucumber, red/yellow/orange peppers, a few tortilla strips (14g), and a Tamari sesame dressing that I love. Very tasty and filling, and usually tops out around 400 calories. I eat that at dinner 2x per week at a minimum.

that is one slice of tomato, two black olives, one radish sliced and 8 garbanzo beans...on a pile of romaine...

People should make every day their salad days imo.

If you like it, eat it. Just log it.

I could not have lost weigh without a salad every night with my dinner. It adds a satisfying amount of bulk for low calories, and I put good stuff on them. EVOO & vinegar, various flavors, is my go to dressing. Give me the exact same meal, no salad, and I"m hungry all evening.

Taco salad my fav.......ground turkey, cheese, organic (flavorful) tomatoes, red onions, avocado (good oil) and balsalmic vinegar. Not too many calories, flavorful and filling! I cut out the bread cause I'm trying watch how much sugar I eat. I tried a diabetic bread today...for my purposes, just fine.

Love salads. I skip croutons (I eat low carb), but pile on cheese (a nice handful), meat, eggs or avocados, sunflower kernels, and douse the whole thing with a good deal of olive oil and balsamic vinegar or Italian dressing made with olive oil. I have no earthly clue how many calories are in my salads, but they fill me up nicely and give me a good amount of veggies, fat, and protein for very few net carbs. Big salads allow me to bulk out small portions of the carb heavy foods I sometimes serve my family (pizza, Mac n cheese, etc). If it weren't for my huge calorie laden salads I'd be stuck going hungry on pizza night

ysoto2014 wrote: »

Kinda like coffee I feel like people say salads are great and some people say no. My favorite salad is the chicken Caesar but apparently it's horrible to eat due to the dressing. So is there a salad that is a better option? Not a picky eater I usually do a sandwich for lunch but am trying to cut the bread out.

A salad is a salad, none is good or bad. Make it to your liking, dressing on the side and use moderate amounts. In fact, just stay within your calorie goals and you will lose weight.

We use a yogurt-based dressing for our Caesar salads. It tastes the same (to me) with a much lower calorie count. I've decided that a small sprinkle of bacon bits is worth the calories (for me) but croutons are not - so I take my salad out before adding the croutons for my husband and son.

Just like you have a 5 calorie cup of coffee and a 700 calorie cup of coffee drink, the calorie content of salads varies with what is added to them. If you like it and it fits neatly into your calorie allowance, I see no reason why you shouldn't have it whenever you feel like it.

Why did the lettuce blush?

Because he saw the salad dressing.



Sorry, will put away book of jokes for 5 year olds now

That's like saying, "Is casserole good or bad?" You can build a salad to be as many or few calories as you want. I can make a 100 calorie salad with spinach, feta, and lemon juice. I can also make a 2,500 calorie salad with blue cheese and chickpeas and croutons, etc.

If you measure your ingredients, there's no reason why you can't eat salad.