Jicama is great, EofAZ!
I love making up salad combos at home. All my homemade salads start with a combo of spring mix greens and spinach and a handful (or more) of either Rainbow Slaw or Broccoli Slaw (pre-shredded veggies! Awesome!). I then add a mix of dried or fresh fruit, some kind of cheese, and some kind of nut. I have a ton of SBD-safe dressings, but one of my favorite brands is
Organicville, because they use agave nectar to sweeten their vinaigrettes!
When I go to a salad bar (usually either Ruby Tuesday or Old Country Buffet), here are things I like to get:
- most nutritional lettuce offering (spinach and spring mix first, then romaine, if no other option)
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- bell peppers
- mushrooms
- onions
- edamame
- lean meat (especially poultry)
- carrots
- blue cheese
- beans of any kind
- sunflower seeds
- tomatoes
- radishes (I'm not a huge fan, but if they're shredded, I don't notice them)
- cabbage
I always get bleu cheese or ranch dressing, as I've found that they were always within the SBD guidelines. Well, at least the first 20 or 30 ones that I checked. Then I stopped checking.
There's a
divine salad recipe in the first SBD book (or maybe it's the SBD cookbook?). It involves cooking pears in wine, I believe. I add cooked chicken breast to it for a complete meal. It's SO good.
Another great salad is the
Mexican Caesar from El Torito restaurant. It's hardly low in fat, but I think it'd be easy to make a version at home. Somewhere I have a copycat version of the recipe. Anyways, it uses cotijo cheese (try reduced fat feta) and pepitas (roasted pumpkin seeds) with romaine and a divine garlicky cilantro dressing. The original also has tortilla strips...you could make your own out of WW tortillas, if you wanted. Here are some recipes online for the salad:
There are a ton of
amazing salad recipes out there. My favorites include fresh fruit. I was looking online for one that I loved (still haven't found it, but it included grapefruit, mango, and avocado with a homemade grapefruit vinaigrette) and found some other ones that also looked good; just add lean meat to any of them to make it a meal. If anyone loves these, we can put them in the forum:
Avocado-and-Grapefruit Salad With Pomegranate Seeds (good if made with agave nectar in place of the honey)
Mango, Orange, Grapefruit, Avocado, and Pistachio Salad (a little high in fat, but other than cheese, it's good fat, so if you watch the rest of your meals...)
Spinach & Grapefruit Salad This looks gorgeous, like it'd be good enough to make for company!
Raspberry, Avocado & Mango Salad The hazelnuts sound like they'd push the goodness of this salad over-the-top!
now I am craving it!!!!! lol
