What do you put in your salads?

I like everything in salad, the usual eggs, cheese, sometimes lunch meat or cold chicken breast but my secret ingredient if I ever don't feel like salad is Frenchs crispy fried onions!!!! Well worth the 40 cal for a tablespoon of delicous!

raisins, orange wedges, strawberries, grapes ( i like fruit lol), tuna, cucumbers, bell peppers, broccoli. those steamable veggie bags.
basically whatever i want lol

I like everything in salad, the usual eggs, cheese, sometimes lunch meat or cold chicken breast but my secret ingredient if I ever don't feel like salad is Frenchs crispy fried onions!!!! Well worth the 40 cal for a tablespoon of delicous!

French onions, what a great idea! I will have to try!

I have looked for crispy little tortilla strips for my salad, like El Pollo Loco puts on the loco side salad but haven't been able to find them, does anyone know where I might find these?

And for my salad I like putting garbanzo and kidney beans, cucumbers, broccoli and a little bit of cheese.

I got a few goto salad recipes I use

Poor mans salad:
small red onion
tomato
cucumber

use quantity as you like, chop them up nice and tiny and then add some lemon juice. Viola! Its pretty good salad if you're eating it with rice and curry or rice in general

Fatoush:
romaine lettuce
tomato
pita chips
cucumber
red onion

chop em up nice and chunky except for the cucumber and red onion which should be chopped tiny. Add them up together. Mix in some "Summac" (An arabic spice) with some lemon juice and then drizzle some extra vigin olive oil on top

For me the question is what do I put ON my salads. I love Indian food more than life itself, but I'm avoiding the white rice carbs, so when I go to the Indian buffet, I load up my plate with salad instead of rice and put my saag paneer and lamb korma on top. Similarly, leftover spaghetti goes on a plate of baby spinach. Because I'm not really a fan of salads.

My salads always start with baby spinach. I don't even remember what lettuce tastes like, lol.

I eat a lot of the same stuff that others have said, but at least once a week when I want something a bit different I eat:

2 cups spinach
1 sliced hard boiled egg
grated carrot
grated zuchinni
60 g tuna
3 spicy pickled beans

Renee's Asian sesame dressing

So yummy! Bean sprouts in this would be good too, altho i never have those in the house

we eat salads for all kinds of meals, sometimes as a side, but mostly as the meal itself, so it depends on what kind of salad we're talking about.

for my regular lunch salad, I'll use whatever I have but almost always some of the following:

a mix of crisp and leafy greens
shredded carrots
feta cheese
1/2 hard boiled egg
red onions
green onions
pepperoncini
jalapenos
black or green olives
pickles

homemade dressing (made from balsamic vinegarl, spices & homemade mayonnaise (oil, egg, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar & some spices)

and seasonally

1/2 tart apple (i adore the combination of apples & onions)
tomato
avocado
snap peas
chopped cauliflower
chopped broccoli (not much, because I'm not a big fan of broccoli)


and occasionally

sunflower seeds
homemade croutons (though since I've basically cut bread from my diet, this is extremely rare. I used to make croutons with stale bread. I don't think I've ever bought them at the store)

if it helps much, you can look at my diary around may 15th to about june 5th. I had a salad for lunch almost every day and it had to sustain me from noon to about 6 with a small snack in between. I also bicycle commute to work & back, so it had to give me enough energy to get home (though, home is more downhill than up, thankfully)

Diced avocado. Higher in calories than other veggies, but fantastic super food with good fat. If you dice up a quarter of the avocado, you'll find you need less dressing - so win win!

Lately it's been:

lettuce
chick peas
red bell pepper
cherry tomatoes
a few croutons
and light ranch dressing or caesar dressing

I would put hard boiled eggs in there, but for some reason i'm really nervous to make hard boiled eggs...

I love sunflower seeds in mine. & I agree about the tastefully simple ... I used there vidalia dressing and LOVE it!!!

I wish I could copy Applebees Oriental chicken salad for 1/2 the calories!!! I love that thing!!! (had it last night before going to see magic mike as a matter of fact!!)

I LOVE this salad. I'm not burnt out on it yet lol...

Herb mix greens
1/4 cup lo mein noodles
green onion
tomatoes
cucumber
fresh cracked pepper
spicy ms dash
1/2 tblsp of olive oil
rice vinegar

bacon it is the answer to so many problems

I like soft boil eggs (I like a little runny yoke) and bacon. I also like pine nuts and dried fruit. Oh, marinated mozzarella! Or left over chili!

Mixed salad (spinach, rocket, various dark green lettuce etc)
Salad onions
Cucumber
Bell Peppers
Grapes
Capers
Soft Boiled Egg (quatered)
Boiled baby Potatoes
Blanched & cooled French Beans
Blanched & cooled Asparagus
Tuna (fresh or canned)

As a dressing my favourite is 0.5 tblspoon Olive Oil in 2 tblspoons Aged Malt Vinegar, salt, pepper, garlic clove crushed and a 1/4 teaspoon English Mustard.

I also add Apple, cubes of mature Cheese, Red Onion........I could go on and on. Salads are so versatile, filling and good for you.

i love bacon cooked till crispy with hard boiled eggs still warm and slightly runny yoke with my salad!

some great ideas on here that i will defiantly try out thx everyone