I need some salad ideas!!!

My fav go-to salad is a big pile of green leaf lettuce and fresh spinach leaves, grilled chicken, diced roma tomatoes, dried cranberries, feta crumbles, and balsamic vinegar. Not vinegarette, just the balsamic vinegar. This one is super-easy, has lots of proteins and various veggies, with a little bit of sweet in the cranberries.

Curious to hear other people's favs...

My fav go-to salad is a big pile of green leaf lettuce and fresh spinach leaves, grilled chicken, diced roma tomatoes, dried cranberries, feta crumbles, and balsamic vinegar. Not vinegarette, just the balsamic vinegar. This one is super-easy, has lots of proteins and various veggies, with a little bit of sweet in the cranberries.

Curious to hear other people's favs...

That sounds like my new fave!!

I love just putting chopped cucumbers, roma tomatoes, and red onions marinated with some white balsalmic vinegar and a touch of olive oil! You can top off spinach and chicken with it or put some on a sandwich!

Walden Farms makes a 0 cal, 0 Fat, 0 Carb salad dressing line. My favorite is the Balsamic Vinegrette.

I like making my own glazed walnuts. They're very easy to make. They taste delicious as a snack, but also very good in a salad. Especially if it's done with a raspberry vinaigrette type dressing.

I'm also a huge fan of adding raisins or cranberries to salads.

It's the little things in life that make us happy. And I have found that peas on my salad make me happy. You know the frozen kind that have been thawed....yummmo!

Edamame is fantastic too on a salad!

I'm SUPER into this right now...I take a ripe avocado and roughly mash it (I like a few chunks in it still, or sometimes I'll only mash part of it and cut the rest up and add it to the salad itself), mix in some non-fat plain yogurt, lemon juice, salt and pepper. That becomes my dressing. It's pretty thick (you can always thin it out with more yogurt I guess, but I like it this way), you can use your (clean!) hands to really massage it into the lettuce (I prefer mixed greens, kale or spinach). This goes REALLY well with salmon or tuna (canned or fresh), grilled chicken, sometimes I'll just use beans.

I like to add sunflower seeds, sliced bell pepper, some capers if I use salmon or tuna. Sometimes I'll add some feta (I like the fat free feta from trader joe's).

It has a lot of fat because of the avocado and sunflower seeds, but at least it's GOOD fat. Usually I only use half an avocado.

My current favorite is to dice up a tomato, half a cucumber, a serving of baby carrots, add in some reduced fat feta cheese (I usually do 1.5 servings of Athenos reduced fat feta - I just love me some cheese LOL) and dress with fat free italian dressing (4 tbsp, which is 2 servings - only 30 cal total for the dressing b/c of the type I use - b/c the dressing flavor is the most important part). I also like to add in some mccormick salad toppins for crunch (usually 3 tbsp which is about 80 cal). All together the amounts of things that I normally put in comes to 285 calories. Sometimes I'll cut up a small chicken breast which brings the total to about 395 calories. It's a nice sized bowl of deliciousness. I'm just not into lettuce much right now. LOL

I'm a salad junkie. =D

Spinach
Arugula
Egg
Olive
Avocado
Tofu
Red Onion
Cucumber
Chickpeas
Black beans
Corn
Salt, pepper, oil

I just literally load up on my favorite veggies!

-Half romaine lettuce/ Half baby spinach
-Chopped broccoli
-Diced tomatoes
-Shredded carrots
-Cauliflower

Then I add: Cut up egg whites
cut up grilled chicken
a teensey bit of lowfat cheese

and I usually eat it with fat free Italian or fat free ranch (about 50 cals for 2 tbsp, not too bad!)

This is like my favorite food in the world! I eat it close to everyday, when I can!

Southwestern Salad
Lettuce
Avocado (I use 1/2)
Tomatoes
Black Beans
Corn
onion
Lime/Olive oil (Use a full lime and just 1/2 tbsp olive oil)

They sell these salad toppings in produce section & there is a corn tortilla strips topping that tastes so awesome on this salad.

Its so filling and not alot calories.

I'm SUPER into this right now...I take a ripe avocado and roughly mash it (I like a few chunks in it still, or sometimes I'll only mash part of it and cut the rest up and add it to the salad itself), mix in some non-fat plain yogurt, lemon juice, salt and pepper. That becomes my dressing. It's pretty thick (you can always thin it out with more yogurt I guess, but I like it this way), you can use your (clean!) hands to really massage it into the lettuce (I prefer mixed greens, kale or spinach). This goes REALLY well with salmon or tuna (canned or fresh), grilled chicken, sometimes I'll just use beans.

I like to add sunflower seeds, sliced bell pepper, some capers if I use salmon or tuna. Sometimes I'll add some feta (I like the fat free feta from trader joe's).

It has a lot of fat because of the avocado and sunflower seeds, but at least it's GOOD fat. Usually I only use half an avocado.

I am a huge fan of avocadoes! If only there were a swimming pool full of guacamole... haha, maybe I'm crazy but it would be pure heaven. Am I the only one that thinks this?! Too bad they are so calorically rich. Never thought to make an avocado dressing though, sounds delish! Thanks for the idea

There are two I found. Hannah Tzatziki Dip was 50 calories for 2 TBSP and I found that a Costco in a huge tub near the hummus. Also the Wegmans brand Tzatziki Dip was 45 calories for 2 TBSP! Most that I see are pretty low in calories since its basically made of yogurt, garlic, and cucumbers. It makes the BEST salad dressing. Last week we had lamb so I made a lamb gyro salad and it was delish! Usually I just use grilled chicken though and its just as good. Hope you enjoy it!