Any salad suggestions?

Here's my favorite salad (btw - I keep all ingredients chopped/sliced/or otherwise ready to go)

baby lettuce greens
cucumber sliced into half-moons
yellow summer squash sliced into half moons
thinly sliced red onion (rings chopped into quarters)
sprouts (alfalfa, bean, broccoli - whatever kind is great)
grated carrot
halved grape tomatoes
red pepper slices
pumpkin seeds
and sometimes homemade croutons made with crushed garlic, salt,and cayenne pepper

dressing in olive oil, lemon, salt, and pepper


Another fav salad of mine in a classic french salad called salad Lyonnaise here's the link: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/poached_egg_and_bacon_salad_-_salad_lyonnaise/
It consists of salad, bacon, croutons, a poached egg, and mustard dressing. total awesomeness

Dried cherries. Grapes. Pumpkin seeds. Really, anything you like.

I switch my regular lettuce up with Field Greens and mix in a little baby spinach. I also buy the pre-cooked frozen shrimp and add that in with a little chopped egg white, red cabbage and on occasions sliced mushrooms. Also, I buy the fresh chicken tenders and do an oven fried chicken and put that on my salad sometimes. It reminds of the salads with fried chicken tenders that are so unhealthy. Try changing up your salad dressings too, that might help.

I have two/three favourite salads.

I'm getting excited for the season because all the ingredients for one are starting to crop up...it's my usual Christmas salad, because it is bright and cheerful and vividly coloured. I toss mandarin orange slices and pomegranate seeds in with spinach, and add some chopped candied pecans (you can skip the pecans if you're watching those sorts of things, or add them plain rather than candied). I usually serve it with a raspberry vinaigrette, but you could use a different type if you wanted--I would definitely say vinaigrette rather than salad dressing, though, because the salad will be sweet enough as it is, you want to add some tartness rather than anything creamy.

For my lunches at work, I'll often take a spinach salad with carrots and diced apple, and maybe a few slivered almonds. I make my own dressing for that:
White Satin - Granulated White Sugar, 6 teaspoon
Oil - Olive, 0.25 cup
Heinz - Distilled White Vinegar, 2 tbsp
Parsley - Freeze-dried, 1 tbsp
Sauce - Pepper, tabasco, 0.25 tsp

(this makes WAY more than you need for a single salad, but it'll keep in the fridge--just make sure you stir it well before pouring, because the sugar will separate out).

I also use that dressing for a spinach salad with oranges, celery, green onion and slivered almonds.

Oh! And in the summer months, I love spinach with watermelon or strawberries and crumbled feta cheeese, again with a raspberry vinaigrette. It's sweet and refreshing.

My salad consists of

Iceberg lettuce
Cucumbers
Carrots
Black Beans
Corn
Lite Italian Dressing
Hard Boiled Egg (cut up)

The black beans make it heartier so I feel fuller then with just the lettuce and other veggies.

I have a hard time with some of the lettuce mixes, too.....so I like plain old iceberg lettuce (not chopped up already), spinach leaves, sometimes the broccoli slaw or sprouts, roma tomato, raw cauliflower (one of my favorite things to eat on salad).

I also like crunch, and have found the tortilla strips or any lower fat/lower calorie crunchy to be a nice topping. I used to LOVE adding those sesame sticks, but they are loaded with fat and calories

For a bit a protein - a hard-boiled egg or low-fat ham chunks, maybe a cut-up piece of chicken breast. I don't like Tuna on my salads.............

I insist on having dressing on my salad, and like a combo of fat-free french and light blue cheese. Mmmmmmmmm.

also roasted pears, reduced balsamic vinagrette, arugula and spiced pecans are good, pairs well with goat cheese

spinach pairs well with strawberries

arugula is spicy so you can pair that with something sweet like peaches , pears, strawberries....

simple vinagretes are good and healthier, applie cider is SOOO GOOD for you in dresssing, Mrs. Bragg's apple cider vinagrette is AMAZING..i would always get spinach, greens, shredded beets, carrots, red onion, feta cheese, cherry tomatoes with the dressing...SOOO GOOD..

I'm a vegetarian, so salads are a staple for me, I love rasberry vinaigrette over spinach and strawberries, so simple, so good throw some mandarin oranges in there too. I alos buy salad confetti at walmart, it's cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and radishes choped up into little pieces, gives a salad more crunch and it's delish. Pinto beans or black beans with change your salad drastically into a completely different meal. We make a pot of beans at least once a week and I just freeze small portions and take them out when I might want one later in the day.

My favorite right now is:

lettuce
dried cranberries
sunflower seeds
red onion
tomatos
chicken (fried) with kraft expression on it (cant think of the name as of rigth now, but it goes with the dressing)
cheese stick cut up
and the thai vinaigrette.