Im trying to renew my love of salads, but I always eat the same old thing (which is quite good but getting a little boring). I usually have (about 4 or 5 times a week) a mixed/tossed green salad with different chopped veggies, avocodo, chick peas, and a balsamic vinigrette.
Anyone do anything extra interesting to mix up the boring salad?
Im having a hard time wanting my boring one anymore.
Try adding fruit. I personally don't like the combination of fruit and vegetables but a lot of people do. Basalmic is a great dressing for veggies and/or fruit so maybe a dressing including that would be nice.
^^ hehe erinmagill just realised that is almost EXACTLY the salad you said was boring I would suggest adding olives and feta, but they're not exactly weight loss godsends (delicious though!)
I usually make two types of salad: one has lettuce, shredded carrot, cherry tomatoes, almonds, and light italian dressing
The other is more of a taco salad: lettuce, black beans, sometimes corn, sometimes cheese, salsa, avocado, sometimes even refried beans, and then crumbled tortilla chips (go light on them, those things are lethal!)
^^ hehe erinmagill just realised that is almost EXACTLY the salad you said was boring I would suggest adding olives and feta, but they're not exactly weight loss godsends (delicious though!)
Olives are great for dieting, IMO. Strong flavor so you don't need a ton, but a serving of, say, 5 olives might be around 20 calories (depends on size).
I'm not a vegetarian, but you ladies have given me so many ideas to spruce up my boring daily salad I just had to share....
A lady from work brought in the best salad for a potluck, I had to get the recipe, I took it to my ma's for Thanksgiving and got rave reviews from my very meat and potatoes family.
Romaine, crasins, cashews, one apple, one pear, and mozzarella (which you could sub) the dressing was lemon juice, veg oil, sugar, poppy seeds. It was the best salad I've ever had...even better than at an restaurant.
I love avocado in my salads, also beans!! Garbanzo beans and kidney beans are great as well as black beans. You can even put in some baked tofu if you like.