Tell me your best salad!!!

I toss baby spinach with a serving of caesar dressing, then top it with grilled chicken, chopped roma tomatoes, cucumbers, kalamata olives, and sprinkle it with feta. Delicious!

Best salad ever =

baby spinach
feta cheese
tomatoes
calamata olives
roasted sunflower seeds
balsamic vinegar, ground black pepper and olive oil

These all sound delicious and I shall try all, but as I'm new to this I need to ask: wouldn't feta be considered high fat? I love feta cheese but always worried about the fat content. Also I'm British, what are craisins??

28 grams of feta cheese is about 75 calories with 4 grams of fat and 4 grams of protein. I like to add a bit of protein to my salad (ie, cheese, chicken, tuna, etc.) for the protein so I stay full longer. I'm pretty sure "craisins" was a typo - the poster probably meant "raisins".

I love salad and eat it at least once a day but am pretty traditional. I use Romaine, fancy green, and redleaf lettuces, green onions, radishes, sliced button mushrooms, shredded carrot and red cabbage, cucumber, grape tomatoes, mixed bean sprouts and croutons. If I eat it at lunch I add an ounce or so of meat, fish or cheese to it. If I eat it as a "starter" before supper, I don't. The one thing I won't make a concession on is my favorite Kraft Creamy Caesar and Bacon dressing. I tried the low cal and fat free versions and just about puked so never again. I only use a tablespoon (amazing how far that will go if you mix it all together) and I'm hardly ever in the red as far as my daily "fat" allowance is concerned.

These all sound delicious and I shall try all, but as I'm new to this I need to ask: wouldn't feta be considered high fat? I love feta cheese but always worried about the fat content. Also I'm British, what are craisins??

28 grams of feta cheese is about 75 calories with 4 grams of fat and 4 grams of protein. I like to add a bit of protein to my salad (ie, cheese, chicken, tuna, etc.) for the protein so I stay full longer. I'm pretty sure "craisins" was a typo - the poster probably meant "raisins".

I love salad and eat it at least once a day but am pretty traditional. I use Romaine, fancy green, and redleaf lettuces, green onions, radishes, sliced button mushrooms, shredded carrot and red cabbage, cucumber, grape tomatoes, mixed bean sprouts and croutons. If I eat it at lunch I add an ounce or so of meat, fish or cheese to it. If I eat it as a "starter" before supper, I don't. The one thing I won't make a concession on is my favorite Kraft Creamy Caesar and Bacon dressing. I tried the low cal and fat free versions and just about puked so never again. I only use a tablespoon (amazing how far that will go if you mix it all together) and I'm hardly ever in the red as far as my daily "fat" allowance is concerned.

no

craisins are cranberries...instead of grapes. is raisiny form

all sound sooo yummy!

Mine is a spinach salad:
Spinach
light goat's cheese (feta also works)
sliced orange
crushed walnuts
sliced pitted dates
(you can also add an apple or any other dried fruits instead of dates)

Dressing (enough for a really big salad):
1 tbsp orange juice
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp honey
1 tsp parmesan cheese
poppy seeds

Spinach, arugula, .5oz mozz cheese cut into small pieces, 2oz grilled chicken breast, lots of tomato, any color bell peppers (I prefer orange or red), sunflower seeds, salt and pepper, cucumber or zucchini (whatever I have fresh from my garden), 1 teaspoon olive oil and half a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar! yum yum yum!

I will add some golden raisins
Carrot salad, raw carrot grated, squeeze lemon juice over the top to stop it going brown and add a spoon of sugar to balance it... no dressing needed but super super yummy!
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Romaine lettuce
tomatoes
Onions
cucumbers
2 tbs feta
4 oz grilled chicken
3 tbs of Bolthouse farms Ranch

These are craisins:

http://craisins.com/

They are made by Ocean Spray and I know you can get them in the United States and Canada, but I don't know about anywhere else.

they sell craisins in England. I have seen them at all the big supermarkets and at poundland (whoop!)